[Nebraska-Senior-Blind] Interesting Facts - Nothing to do with blindness - butt...

[Cheryl Livingston]

What a fun read, Robert!

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:33 PM christine Boone via Nebraska-Senior-Blind <
nebraska-senior-blind at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Robert,
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> LOL… and fascinating! Thanks for a laugh and a bit of edification into the
> bargain!
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> Chris Boone
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> *From:* Nebraska-Senior-Blind <nebraska-senior-blind-bounces at nfbnet.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Robert Leslie Newman via Nebraska-Senior-Blind
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:42 AM
> *To:* NFB Senior Division list <nfb-seniors at nfbnet.org>;
> nebraska-senior-blind at nfbnet.org
> *Cc:* Robert Leslie Newman <robertleslienewman at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [Nebraska-Senior-Blind] Interesting Facts - Nothing to do with
> blindness - butt...
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> Facts about toilet paper
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> Note from Robert: Sometimes, when national news is weighing me down, a
> little bit of toilet facts will lift me up! Enjoy the pick-me-up!
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> 1. The first recorded use of toilet
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> paper was in 6th Century China .
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> 2. By the 14th Century, the
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> Chinese government was mass-producing it.
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> 3. Packaged toilet paper wasn't
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> sold in the United States until 1857.
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> 4. Joseph Gayety, the man who
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> introduced packaged TP to the U.S. , had his name printed on every sheet.
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> 5. Global toilet paper demand
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> uses nearly 30,000 trees every day.
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> 6. That's 10 million trees a
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> year.
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> 7. It wasn't until 1935 that a
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> manufacturer was able to promise Splinter-Free Toilet Paper.
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> 8. Seven percent of Americans
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> admit to stealing rolls of toilet paper from hotels.
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> 9. Americans use an average of
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> 8.6 sheets of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.
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> 10. The average roll has 333
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> sheets.
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> 11. Historically, what you use
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> to wipe depended on your income level.
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> 12. In the Middle Ages, they
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> used something called a gompf stick, which was just an actual stick used
> to scrape.
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> 13. Wealthy Romans used wool
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> soaked in rose water, and French royalty used lace.
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> 14. Other things that were used
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> before toilet paper include hay, corn cobs, sticks, stones, sand, moss,
> hemp, wool, husks, fruit peels, ferns, sponges, seashells, knotted ropes,
> and broken pottery (ouch!).
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> 15. 70-75% of the world still
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> doesn't use toilet paper because it is too expensive or there is not
> sufficient plumbing.
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> 16. In many Western European
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> countries, bidets are seen as more effective and preferable to toilet
> paper.
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> 17. Colored toilet paper was
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> popular in the U.S. until the 1940s.
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> 18. The reason toilet paper
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> disintegrates so quickly when wet is that the fibers used to make it are
> very short.
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> 19. On the International Space
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> Station, they still use regular toilet paper, but it has to be sealed in
> special containers and compressed.
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> 20. During Desert Storm, the
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> U.S. Army used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks.
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> 21. In 1973, Johnny Carson
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> caused a toilet paper shortage. He said as a joke that there was a
> shortage, which there wasn't, until everyone believed him and ran out to
> buy up the supply. It took three weeks for some stores to get more stock.
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> 22. There is a contest sponsored
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> by Charmin to design and make wedding dresses out of toilet paper. The
> winner gets $2,000.
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> 23.. There was a toilet paper
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> museum in Wisconsin , The Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue, but it closed
> in 2000.
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> 24. The museum once had over
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> 3,000 rolls of TP from places all over the world, including The
> Guggenheim, Ellis Island, and Graceland .
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> 25. There is still a virtual
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> toilet paper museum called Nobody's Perfect.
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> 26. In 1996, President Clinton
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> passed a Toilet Paper Tax of 6 cents per roll which is still in effect
> today.
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> 27. The Pentagon uses, on
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> average, 666 rolls of toilet paper per day.
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> 28. The most expensive toilet
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> paper in the world is the Portuguese brand, Renova.
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> 29. Renova is three-ply,
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> perfumed, costs $3 per roll, and comes in several colors including black,
> red, blue, and green.
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> 30. The CEO of Renova came up
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> with the idea for black toilet paper while he was at a Cirque du Soleil
> show.
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> 31. Beyonce uses only red Renova
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> toilet paper.
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> 32. Kris Jenner uses only the
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> black Renova toilet paper.
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> 33. If you hang your toilet
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> paper so you can pull it from the bottom, you're considered more
> intelligent than someone who pulls it from the top. (Wonder how this was
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> determined?)
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> 34. Koji Suzuki, a Japanese
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> horror novelist best known for writing The Ring, had an entire novel
> printed on a single roll of toilet paper.
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> 35. The novel takes place in a
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> public bathroom, and the entire story runs approximately three feet long.
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> 36. When asked what necessity
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> they would bring to a desert island, 49% of people said toilet paper
> before food.
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