It’s World Toilet Day. But you knew this.

As you celebrate today with family and friends – perhaps gathered together in song around the bowl, or exchanging small, warm gifts – do spare a thought for the real meaning of World Toilet Day.

As this short GE Focus Film directed last year by Jessica Wu explains:

For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation-superhero Jack Sim fights this oft-neglected crisis affecting 2.6 billion people…

(Thanks UCDScienceExpression et al)