Trivia that won’t end up as toilet humor

Some people like to read in the bathroom. And now they can read about the bathroom too.

“The Bathroom Companion” comes clean with plenty of information about “the most-used room in the house.”

James Buckley Jr. offers bathroom facts, figures and nuggets of trivia from history, science and pop culture.

Readers learn how hair conditioner works, which color towels are best and why, how soap is made and the dimensions of a standard sheet of toilet tissue. Other toilet trivia tells us that there is a bathroom museum in Japan, that Benjamin Franklin introduced the bathtub into America and that most toilets flush in E flat.

Among the many lists Buckley rolls out are the top-10 toothpaste brands in the U.S., types of bathroom tiles, the five types of towels, what toothpaste contains and why, and famous people who died in the bathroom.

The book’s practical side provides tips on cleaning the bathroom, getting a better shave, remodeling a bathroom to accommodate a disabled person and how to say, “Where’s the bathroom?” in Creole, Hawaiian, Swahili, Zulu and several other languages.