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Many people believe that toilets in Australia flush counter-clockwise (i.e. the opposite way of the United States' toilets). This is untrue, as the forces involved are too weak to influence flow on such a small scale; the direction of such floow in toilets and bathtubes is more-or-less random, influenced by perturbing factors in the system.

Whirlpools do flow in the opposite direction on opposite sides of the Equator due to Coriolis Force, an effect of the Earth's rotation.

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