TP Trivia

We've been hearing lots about toilet paper in the news lately. Check out these interesting facts:

It was in medieval China in the 6th century, during the Tang Dynasty when the first use of toilet paper was recorded.

Joseph Gayetty invented and introduced the first commercial toilet paper which was then, for medical purposes in 1857.

Modern and commercial toilet paper was first manufactured and introduced in 1931.

Toilet paper on a roll was introduced in 1890 by the brothers E. Irvin and Clarence Scott, and their company is known as The Scott Paper Company.

Seth Wheeler’s patent from 1891 shows how the toilet paper should be hanged and it shows it should be going up and over.

Two-ply toilet paper consists of two layers of 10 thickness paper, one ply is made of a 13 thickness paper, and so, two-ply is not necessarily twice the thickness.

In an average household, the average roll of toilet paper lasts approximately five days.

Each person uses an average of 57 sheets of toilet paper per day!

The average person uses 100 rolls of toilet paper per year (over 20,000 sheets).

The average roll weighs 227 grams (measurements: 4.5 inches by 4.5 inches per sheet

It takes about 384 trees to make the toilet paper that one person uses within his lifetime.

About 27,000 trees each day are wiped out in order to make toilet paper.

The daily production of toilet paper is about 83,048,116 rolls per day.

Approximately 810 rolls of toilet paper would be produced from a single tree.

The U.S. uses more toilet paper compared to other countries, with the per-capita average of almost 3 rolls per week.

During Desert Storm in 1990, toilet paper was used by the military to camouflage their war tanks.

Each day, 83 million toilet paper rolls are manufactured and produced.

There used to be a museum of toilet paper and its name was Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue which ran from 1992 to 2000.