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Toilets: Are you a squatter or a sitter?

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Toilets: Are you a squatter or a sitter?
Toilets: Are you a squatter or a sitter?

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Are you going to the toilet wrong? If you sit up when you go to the toilet, then maybe. Turns out the average time it takes to pass a bowel movement is shorter if you're squatting.

Listen to Here for the History: Where did the modern toilet come from?

Presented by Josie Peters, film by Anna Lavelle

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Originally reported by BBC News. Read the full story at the original source.