Tubziletnaya paper

1. The first mention of this product date back to the year 589 BC. e., when a Chinese scholar Yan Chzhituy wrote: "I would caution against the use of toilet paper to quotations from the Pentateuch (Five Classics), or with the names of sages».

2. In the XIV century production of toilet paper in China were already quite industrial. One of the entries in 1393 states that for the needs of the imperial court were produced 720,000 sheets of toilet paper (size of about 50 × 90 cm). Personally Hongwu Emperor and his family were produced 15,000 sheets especially soft, perfumed aromas of toilet paper.

3. At the same time in medieval Europe in the course were still hay, straw, grass and old rags.

4. In the book of Francois Rabelais Gargantua wipe young giant fluffy gusёnkom.

5. Each instance of an American newspaper Old Farmer's Almanac has been specially holed - after reading to hang it in the bathroom and used for its intended purpose.

6. Industrial production of paper intended solely for use as a toilet, was launched in the US in 1857 by Joseph Gayetti. Gayetti name was printed on each leaf.

7. Swabian entrepreneur Hans Klenk, founder of the famous company now Hakle, too, did not hesitate to use his name. His first advertising slogan was: "Demand rolls Hakle, and you do not have to say the word" toilet paper. " And this at a time when the British euphemistically called toilet paper "paper curlers».

8. In most European countries the best selling white toilet paper, but in France - somehow pink. A Portuguese company produces toilet paper in black.

9. Imagine that you are driving on the motorway width of six meters at a speed of 110 km / h. That's exactly what made paper - 1800 m per minute, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

10. Despite all the advances in the area (there are flavored, super soft and moisturized even aloe vera paper) toilet paper uses less than 30% of the world population.