I must have missed the memo on toilet balls...
https://www.gq.com/story/florida-man...as-giant-balls
I learned two things today:
"Toilet balls" (a.k.a. having genitals so enormous that they fall into the toilet when you're taking a dump) is a real thing that affects many people.
The United States Patents and Trademarks Office will let you patent pretty much anything. And I mean anything.
Case in point, Coral Springs insurance executive Vladimir Laurent. The proud owner of U.S. Patent #9,145,667B, which, according to the USPTO website and some startlingly anatomically correct technical drawings in the South Florida Business Journal, is a sanitary product to "prevent the male genitalia from touching the walls of the toilet while in use."
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