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Tissue Trivia
  • The average person uses the bathroom 9 times per day and uses more than 8 sheets of toilet paper per trip. That's almost 60 sheets each day. Can you spare a square?
  • The average person uses 20,805 sheets of toilet paper every year. That means if you're the average person, you personally used about 105 standard rolls of toilet paper in the last 12 months.
  • Not everyone uses toilet paper the same way. There are three methods of preparing toilet paper for use.

    • 40% of us wad it up or crumple it up
    • 40% of us fold it or stack it
    • 20% of us wrap it around our hand

  • The average home usually goes through one and a half rolls of standard toilet paper in about five days.
  • Toilet paper has taken on many rolls. How do you use it?

    • Nose Blow 60%
    • Wiping Spills 17%
    • Removing Make-Up 8%
    • Cleaning Mirrors 7%
    • Cleaning a Child's Face or Hands 3%

  • John Harrington invented the water closet ("The John") in 1596. It was not adopted on a large scale for almost 182 years.

  • Toilet paper got its start in 1718 when people started calling it "toilet paper." Today manufactures prefer to call it "bath tissue."
  • Separate toilets for men and women got its start when a restaurant in Paris put up signs that read "Men Toilet" and '"Women Toilet" at a dance party in 1739.
  • The state of New York had the honor of officially rolling up and rolling out the first roll of toilet paper. Toilet paper would never be the same. Aside from smelling better, getting softer and occasionally adding a few flowers, it's still on a roll with no end in sight.
  • Checking into a hotel in the old days required the clerk to hand you more than your room key. The clerk was also responsible for distributing toilet paper.

  • Ever hear of a "Madame's Double Utility Fan?" The fan dates back to the late 1700s. It doubled as a tissue holder. Women would discreetly hide as many as 150 sheets of toilet paper in the handle of the fan. Of course today women use purses.
  • Toilet paper was manufactured with perforated sheets in 1884.
  • Ever use an outhouse? How about one with a dried leaves dispenser? That's what you would find in outhouses throughout the United States as late as the 1800s.
  • Would you believe late 19th century toilet paper dispensers used a built-in knife to cut the desired amount needed. It's true. Makes you wonder if it was soft. Ouch!

  • Would you believe there was a time when people didn't even say "toilet paper" in public? That's right. Shoppers instead would point to the rolls and say, "four of those please."
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