IamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoTIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.www.utubepublisher.inexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down16
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkTIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.www.utubepublisher.inIamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·12 hours agomy family’s old farmhouse has communal outhouses. this was the norm until like 150-200 years ago, and was still common here into the early 1900s.
my family’s old farmhouse has communal outhouses. this was the norm until like 150-200 years ago, and was still common here into the early 1900s.