• Stern@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The first bidets came about around 1700 and were manually filled. Indoor plumbing meant recognizable non-poo filled ones in the 1800s, but the modern toilet seat one was 1964, so keep that in mind wrt time travel.

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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          7 days ago

          residents hung their clothing in garderobe shafts specifically to rid them of fleas, using the ammonia from urine as a natural fumigant. The toilet and the wardrobe occupied the same small stone room for reasons that made complete practical sense at the time.

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      7 days ago

      They didn’t have toilets in the 1950s? Surely that’s not right.

      Post search: How exactly are you defining “modern toilet seat”? The ones I’m seeing from the '50s look pretty recognizable.