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Inside the Ancient Roman Toilet Where Poop Fell 50 Meters Down

Before we get to the insane engineering of Roman toilets, we need to understand WHY this was such a big deal. Because here's the thing—human civilization has always had one very consistent problem. We poop. A lot. An average city of, say, one million people—which Rome absolutely was at its peak—produces about 145 thousand TONS of human waste every single year. That's roughly the weight of a thousand blue whales. Made of poop. Now, most ancient civilizations? They just... dealt with it. And by "dealt with it," I mean they absolutely did NOT deal with it. In ancient Mesopotamia, people just threw their waste into the streets or nearby rivers. In ancient Egypt, they dug pits. Medieval European cities? Oh boy—chamber pots emptied out of windows onto pedestrians below. There's literally a French phrase for it: "Gardez l'eau!" which means "Watch out for the water!" Except it wasn't water. But the Romans? The Romans looked at this mountain of poop and said, "What if we turned this into a SYSTEM?" And they didn't just build a system. They built one of the most impressive pieces of infrastructure in human history. A system so good that when it collapsed during the Dark Ages, European cities literally drowned in their own filth for centuries.