What do Roman emperors, French kings, modern dictators, and Viktor Yanukovych have in common? An obsession with showing off wealth in the weirdest ways possible — and sometimes, that meant gold in the bathroom.
In this Dad Tangent, we tour history’s most extravagant homes and bathrooms: from Versailles’ gilded halls with no toilets, to Saddam Hussein’s marble palaces, to Yanukovych’s infamous golden commode at Mezhyhirya. Along the way,we’ll discover why toilets became symbols of excess — and how one shiny seat came to represent corruption in Ukraine.
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