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I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you'll learn about why the women's

restroom line is always longer, an incredibly rare condition of having superhuman memory, and how bamboo products

impact the environment.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

We all know that the line to get into the women's restroom is pretty much always longer than the

line to get into the men's restroom. In fact, on average, women have to wait about

34 times as long as men to use the bathroom. Well today you're going to learn the surprising

reasons why. I admit when I saw this on the editorial calendar I thought isn't

it obvious the reasons why and it turns out Ashley is actually a really good managing editor who runs

articles about things that people don't all already know. So if you're

listening and you're a guy like me and you're like, well, I know, then stay tuned because you may not.

I mean, I didn't either, honestly.

So there you go. If you're listening and you're a human, right?

Or, cyborg. We don't discriminate. Absolutely. I'm technically a

cyborg. All right, so researchers studied restroom lines and a team at Ghent

University came up with three main reasons for the difference in waiting time between men and women.

The first reason is just the net number of toilets.

Usually restrooms are the same size in terms of space, but urinals take up less room than full

bathroom stalls. The same size restroom that fits 10 stalls in the women's room

could fit 10 urinals plus two stalls in the men's room.

On average you can fit 20 to 30 percent more toilets in a men's room.

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