Top 10 Famous Toilets

We spend an estimated year and a half of our lives on the toilet, yet the humble seat rarely receives its due. The recent sale of John Lennon's toilet for $14,740 and the eBay auction of J.D. Salinger's toilet have given TIME reason to look back on other famous potties

Hitler's Toilet

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To most, it looks normal, rather unclean and unreliable. But the restroom at Greg's Auto Repair in Florence, N.J., is actually much more than that. Before they belonged to Greg Kohfeldt, the auto-repair shop's owner, the bathroom's toilet and sink were in the possession of one Adolf Hitler. That's right — the room's facilities were once used by der Führer on his own private yacht, which wound up in a New Jersey junkyard in the early 1950s. The yahct was torn apart for scrap, scattering its various pieces throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The lavatory found its way to the shop in 1952 and has been there ever since. Understandably, the shop's owner feels no attachment to the old toilet and sink and claims he would part with them in an instant if someone were to buy him a new bathroom to replace them. Any offers?

See rare photos from inside Hitler's bunker.

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