{"id":101217,"date":"2020-04-16T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T23:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101217"},"modified":"2020-04-16T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T23:34:38","slug":"deforestation-and-toilet-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/16\/deforestation-and-toilet-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFORESTATION AND TOILET PAPER"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUXMINDRA JAYASEKARA<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

1. The first\nrecorded use of toilet paper was in 6th Century China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. By the 14th Century, the Chinese government was mass-producing it. As usual, it went viral in China, but not elsewhere, unlike\u00a0\u00a0Corona !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Packaged\ntoilet paper wasn’t sold in the United States until 1857.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Joseph Gayety,\nthe man who introduced packaged TP to the U.S. had his name printed on every\nsheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Global toilet paper demand uses nearly 30,000 trees every day. AND\nRISING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. That’s 10\nmillion trees a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. It wasn’t\nuntil 1935 that a manufacturer was able to promise Splinter-Free Toilet Paper.(\nBefore it was “OUCH”!!??)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Seven percent\nof Americans admit to stealing rolls of toilet paper in hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Americans use\nan average of 8.6 sheets of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. The average\nroll has 333 sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Historically,\nwhat you use to wipe depended on your income level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. In the middle ages, they used something called a Gompf stick which was just an actual stick used to scrape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Wealthy\nRomans used wool soaked in rose water and French royalty used lace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Other things\nthat were used before toilet paper include: Hay, corn cobs, sticks, stones,\nsand, moss, hemp, wool, husks, fruit <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   \n  peels, ferns, sponges, seashells, knotted ropes, and broken pottery\n(ouch!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. 70-75% of the\nworld still doesn’t use toilet paper because it is too expensive or there is\nnot sufficient plumbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. In many\nWestern European countries, bidets are seen as more effective and preferable to\ntoilet paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Coloured\ntoilet paper was popular in the U.S. until the 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. The reason\ntoilet paper disintegrates so quickly when wet is that the fiber used to make\nit are very short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. On the International Space Station, they still use regular toilet paper but it has to be sealed in special containers and\u00a0Compressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. During Desert\nStorm, the U.S. Army used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21.\nThe Pentagon uses, on average, 666 rolls of toilet paper per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22. IN AN\nEMERGENCY  CAN BE USED AS A TEMPORARY FACE MASK <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LUXMINDRA JAYASEKARA\u00a0 1. The first recorded use of toilet paper was in 6th Century China. 2. By the 14th Century, the Chinese government was mass-producing it. As usual, it went viral in China, but not elsewhere, unlike\u00a0\u00a0Corona !! 3. Packaged toilet paper wasn’t sold in the United States until 1857. 4. Joseph Gayety, the man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}