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TIL Christian Slater and Bob Mortimer tried to get blueprints for a "reverse toilet", where you have a little shelf. Mortimer's anus is too high for regular toilets, so he needs to take his trousers off and sit on it backwards. It didn't go anywhere and they blew £700

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