What is toilet paper?
A: Toilet paper is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus
and surrounding anal region of feces after defecation, and to clean the perineal area and external genitalia urination.
It also acts as a layer of protection for what?
A: The hands during these processes.
How is it is usually supplied?
A: A long strip of perforated paper wrapped around a paperboard core.
There are other uses for toilet paper, as it is a what?
A: It is a readily available household product.
It can be used like facial tissue for what?
A: For blowing the nose or wiping the eyes.
Some women may use the paper to absorb what?
A: The bloody discharge during menstruation.
It can be used to wipe off what?
A: Sweat.
Toilet paper can be used in cleaning like what?
A: A less abrasive paper towel.
Most modern toilet paper in the developed world is
designed to decompose in what?
A: Septic tanks.
What does wet toilet paper do in the environment?
A: It rapidly decomposes.
Toilet paper comes in various numbers of plies (layers
of thickness), from one- to six-ply, with more back-to-back plies providing
greater what?
A: Strength and absorbency.
Some people have a preference for whether the
orientation of the roll on a dispenser should be what?
A: Over or under.
The use of paper for hygiene has been recorded in China
in what century?
A: The 6th century AD.
How early was specifically manufactured toilet paper
being mass-produced?
A: In the 14th century.
When did modern commercial toilet paper come into use?
A: In the 19th century.
In what year was a
patent for roll-based dispensers
issued?
A: 1883.
As late as the 1930s, a selling point of the Northern
Tissue company was that their toilet paper was what?
A: "splinter free".
How did the adoption of the flush toilet increase the
use of toilet paper?
A: Heavier paper was more prone to clogging toilet.
Softer, two-ply toilet roll was introduced in Britain
in what year?
A: 1942.
How many rolls of toilet paper are sold yearly in the
United State?
A: Seven billion rolls.