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TOILET PAPER-History Of World's Most Popular Product

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Toilet Paper is the world's most popular product. People haven’t always used toilet paper. In fact, most Americans used things like corncobs (yikes), moss (ew), and pages torn from catalogs and books (ow). Buying paper just for bathroom use seemed silly. In the 6th century AD, in China the use of paper for hygiene purposes has been recorded. These specially manufactured toilet papers were being mass produced in the 14th century. In the 19th century modern commercial toilet paper originated, with a patent for roll-based dispensers being made in 1883. Toilet papers are called with different names like "bog roll","toilet roll", "dunny roll/paper","bathroom/toilet tissue","TP","arsewipe","shit tickets" (used informally by soldiers of the United States Army), and also simply "tissue". Joseph Gayetty Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the