We use it several times a day, get annoyed that there aren’t enough layers, or struggle with the last sheet when we really need it. The fact that toilet paper became scarce during the Corona pandemic due to hamster purchases shows the importance of this product. We think too little about it. Or do you know how many leaves they use per day?
Bread to eat, water to drink and toilet paper for afterwards. The “white ribbon” provides us with valuable services every day. While the ancient Romans still cleaned their buttocks with a common xylospongium – a wooden stick with a sponge attached to it. And the Chinese still used sticks with cloths 2000 years ago. Speaking of China, the first toilet paper was probably made there in 200 AD. Hemp paper was found in Emperor Wu Di’s tomb. It was too rough and crude to write. Apparently bearable for the butt.
Source: Krone
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