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The History of Toilet Design and Poop
Barbara Penner is an architectural historian. She wrote a book called Bathroom. It's about how toilet design and our ideas about poop have shaped each other over the centuries. Dr. Penner took me back to a time in England when most people didn't use indoor toilets. Those were only for the very, very rich darling.