Saturday, October 24, 2009

Thankful Trivia

In 1857, Joseph C. Gayetty of New York City invented toilet paper.

5 comments:

  1. Indeed!
    During college summers I spent some of them working in a papermill and I know TP from the logs to the wood chips to the pulp to the mile long paper machine.

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  2. Paper mills have the worst smell! It's horrible! How did you stand it?

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  3. And I'm celebrating by opening up a new roll!

    Enjoy your weekend, Joy!

    Sylvia

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  4. We grew up next to papermills. It smells like home. :-) Pollution wise they got much better over the years.

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  5. Thanks goodness for TP...everytime I look at a corncob I think "I can't believe people used to wipe their butts with those! Who thought of that!?"

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