Next time you go to a public bathroom, take a look before you sit down on the toilet seat. You won’t encounter an oval or circle, but something incomplete; a U ... seat is shaped the way ...

It’s all to do with the seat ... shaped like the letter u. But the seat in your bathroom at home will have a seat which goes all the way around. Puzzling out the reason why is enough to send you ...

Our efforts to dispel the mysteries of the modern visual landscape come to a head this week. For previous columns, click here; to submit your own suggestions, email us. Lovely. But where were we?

I f you've ever used a public restroom, you may have noticed a peculiar feature: U-shaped toilet seats with an open front.

Open-front toilet seats — sometimes referred to as “U-shaped” or “split” seats — are almost exclusively affixed to toilets in publicly accessible bathrooms or commercial spaces.

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which are shaped like the letter u and have an opening at the front. Most private bathrooms, by contrast, have oval or round toilet seats that wrap all the way around the toilet. Why the gap?

It’s all to do with the seat ... shaped like the letter u. But the seat in your bathroom at home will have a seat which goes all the way around. Puzzling out the reason why is enough to send you ...