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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3194533, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet</a></p><p>The Wikipedia article says that Vespasian charged for using his toilets but that is not the story as I have always heard it.&nbsp; The practice I had heard was questioned by Titus was the selling the urine collected in the toilets to laundry, tanning and other businesses that used it for the ammonia.&nbsp; Does anyone have a primary reference that would clarify this one way or the other?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am firmly of the belief that 99% of all modern humans from what we term &#039;developed&#039; nations would be truly shocked by the odor they would experience if time travel were possible.&nbsp; Rome was able to become such a large city and be relatively free from contagion because of their system of running water.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think the average person in most of &#039;history&#039; would pay to use a toilet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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