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If you’ve ever traveled internationally, you’ve probably encountered a bidet — the bathroom fixture that’s standard in most of the world, but that we have, for some reason, mostly ignored in the U.S.

You may have seen them in bathrooms during trips abroad: a second porcelain trough, next to the toilet, that looks like a cross between a urinal and a sink. That thing there is a bidet, people!