# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2)

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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> From Strindberg’s _Miss Julie_, we’d learned that “Turkish pavilion” was a euphemism for outhouse.

Tangentially related: the hole-in-the-ground type toilet, which I grew up (a long time ago) thinking of as quintessentially French, is these days referred to by the French as _une toillette a la Turque_ (a Turkish toilet). Which the wife discovered in a queue for the toilets, where everyone (all French) was avoiding that particular cubicle. How times change. It’s a rare thing to find one these days - I _almost_ miss them.

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