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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Robert,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LOL… and fascinating! Thanks for a laugh and a bit of edification into the bargain! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris Boone<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Nebraska-Senior-Blind <nebraska-senior-blind-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Leslie Newman via Nebraska-Senior-Blind<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> NFB Senior Division list <nfb-seniors@nfbnet.org>; nebraska-senior-blind@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Robert Leslie Newman <robertleslienewman@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Nebraska-Senior-Blind] Interesting Facts - Nothing to do with blindness - butt...<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Facts about toilet paper<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>1. The first recorded use of toilet<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>paper was in 6th Century China .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2. By the 14th Century, the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Chinese government was mass-producing it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>3. Packaged toilet paper wasn't<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>sold in the United States until 1857.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>4. Joseph Gayety, the man who<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>introduced packaged TP to the U.S. , had his name printed on every sheet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>5. Global toilet paper demand<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>uses nearly 30,000 trees every day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>6. That's 10 million trees a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>7. It wasn't until 1935 that a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>manufacturer was able to promise Splinter-Free Toilet Paper.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>8. Seven percent of Americans<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>admit to stealing rolls of toilet paper from hotels.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>9. Americans use an average of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>8.6 sheets of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>10. The average roll has 333<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>sheets.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>11. Historically, what you use<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>to wipe depended on your income level.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>12. In the Middle Ages, they<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>used something called a gompf stick, which was just an actual stick used to scrape.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>13. Wealthy Romans used wool<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>soaked in rose water, and French royalty used lace.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>14. Other things that were used<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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!).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>15. 70-75% of the world still<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>doesn't use toilet paper because it is too expensive or there is not sufficient plumbing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>16. In many Western European<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>countries, bidets are seen as more effective and preferable to toilet paper.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>17. Colored toilet paper was<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>popular in the U.S. until the 1940s.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>18. The reason toilet paper<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>disintegrates so quickly when wet is that the fibers used to make it are very short.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>19. On the International Space<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Station, they still use regular toilet paper, but it has to be sealed in special containers and compressed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>20. During Desert Storm, the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>U.S. Army used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>21. In 1973, Johnny Carson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>22. There is a contest sponsored<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>by Charmin to design and make wedding dresses out of toilet paper. The winner gets $2,000.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>23.. There was a toilet paper<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>museum in Wisconsin , The Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue, but it closed in 2000.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>24. The museum once had over<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>3,000 rolls of TP from places all over the world, including The Guggenheim, Ellis Island, and Graceland .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>25. There is still a virtual<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>toilet paper museum called Nobody's Perfect.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>26. In 1996, President Clinton<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>passed a Toilet Paper Tax of 6 cents per roll which is still in effect today.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>27. The Pentagon uses, on<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>average, 666 rolls of toilet paper per day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>28. The most expensive toilet<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>paper in the world is the Portuguese brand, Renova.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>29. Renova is three-ply,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>perfumed, costs $3 per roll, and comes in several colors including black, red, blue, and green.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>30. The CEO of Renova came up<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>with the idea for black toilet paper while he was at a Cirque du Soleil show.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>31. Beyonce uses only red Renova<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>toilet paper.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>32. Kris Jenner uses only the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>black Renova toilet paper.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>33. If you hang your toilet<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>determined?)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>34. Koji Suzuki, a Japanese<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>horror novelist best known for writing The Ring, had an entire novel printed on a single roll of toilet paper.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>35. The novel takes place in a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>public bathroom, and the entire story runs approximately three feet long.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>36. When asked what necessity<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>they would bring to a desert island, 49% of people said toilet paper before food.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>