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[โ€“] [email protected] 152 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There are people still alive who remember a world before "splinter-free" toilet paper.

The manufacturing of this product had a long period of refinement, considering that as late as the 1930s, a selling point of the Northern Tissue company was that their toilet paper was "splinter free".

-Wikipedia

[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes you need that good, deep clean only a chunk of bark will give you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also known as "scooping"

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And in 2023 the majority of Americans still have not discovered the joy of using a bidet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly because they think it will โ€œturn you gayโ€ or some shit

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my favorite Wikipedia page now. Love that Wikipedia takes itself so seriously that they actually list the uses of toilet paper.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed "See also: Anal Hygiene"

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

History smells awful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

til: nokia sold toilet paper

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's a thought I did not need in my head.