Toilet Seat Up Or Down? | Brit Lab

Chris Van Tulleken explains the science behind one of the greatest sources of conflict in the world today, toilet seat etiquette!
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FOOTNOTES:
1: https://www.msu.edu/~choijay/etiquette.pdf
2: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22137761 and http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u....k/2012/01/04/flushin

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