Fun Facts about Toilet Paper.
This essential product, loved by all has a few fun facts linked to it:
- Splinter free toilet paper was only available in 1935, a great amount of time after the first ever recorded use of toilet paper which was in China in the 6th century. The Chinese were only mass-producing toilet paper by the 14th century.
- Toilet paper sold in boxes, which was the first to be developed in England, only appeared in 1880.
- 333 sheets are the average amount to be found on a toilet role now.
- The average time a person spends on the toilet in their lifetime is three years.
- Due to lack of finance or insufficient plumbing, 75% of the world does not use toilet paper to this day. That would be about four billion people.
- In the old days, what you used as toilet paper would depend on your wealth status.
- The toilet paper used on the International Space Station needs to be specially compressed and sealed.
- Johnny Carson was guilty of causing a toilet paper shortage in 1973, he made a joke that toilet paper has run out, causing people to buy all the available toilet paper in a panic. Some stores had to wait for three weeks to receive toilet paper stock again.
- Renova, a Portuguese brand of toilet paper manufactures the most expensive toilet paper, it comes in many different colors such as green, red, blue and black. It is perfumed and sold at three dollars per roll. It is a three-ply toilet paper. The red toilet paper is said to be used exclusively by Beyonce.
- 49% of all people in a survey have said that they would bring toilet paper before consumables such as food.
- Silk handkerchiefs were used by the late Queen Elizabeth ll.
- Approximately eight to nine sheets of toilet paper is used per toilet use.
- One-ply toilet paper lasts longer than 2-ply, it is also easier for a septic system and plumbing to break down.
- The amount of toilet paper a single person used in his lifetime would take 384 trees to make.
- It is said that about seven percent of Americans tend to steal toilet paper from hotels.
- Toilet paper is not flushed in many countries.
- There is an office-machine that uses used copier paper to create toilet paper.
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