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TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.

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