IamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days 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-square78fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down111
arrow-up1213arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoThis is my interpretation: They’d use scraps left over from making clothes, collect them in a bin and have slaves boil and wash them to re-use. And it was likely a thing for rich people, the poor would just use their left hand and eat with the right.
This is my interpretation: They’d use scraps left over from making clothes, collect them in a bin and have slaves boil and wash them to re-use.
And it was likely a thing for rich people, the poor would just use their left hand and eat with the right.