{"id":4419,"date":"2017-07-14T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2017-07-14T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:38:14","slug":"toilet-roll-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/toilet-roll-facts","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Roll Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-roll-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-roll-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-roll-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-roll-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-roll.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One \u2018mod con\u2019 we all take for granted is the <a href=\"\/janitorial\/toilet-rolls-dispensers\/toilet-roll\/l-1535\" target=\"_blank\">humble toilet roll<\/a>. Years ago, only kings and queens had access to toilet paper \u2013 everyone else used leaves (or later on, newspaper).<\/p>\n<p>The first person to use a type of toilet tissue was the Chinese emperor back in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century, who commanded his Bureau of Imperial Supplies to produce 720,000 sheets per annum. But these weren\u2019t the little sheets we use today, but large ones measuring 2 ft by 3 ft (and they didn\u2019t come on a roll).<\/p>\n<p>Here are 7 more fascinating facts about toilet paper:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first packaged toilet tissue in the US appeared in 1857 and was impregnated with aloe to prevent sore bottoms<\/li>\n<li>In 1880 the British Perforated Paper Company began to produce toilet paper<\/li>\n<li>In 1890 toilet paper was produced in rolls in the US. It was the Victorian era, so the product wasn\u2019t mentioned in polite company<\/li>\n<li>In 1930 the first splinter-free loo rolls appeared<\/li>\n<li>In 1954 coloured toilet tissue was invented<\/li>\n<li>In 2009 Cuba had a national toilet paper crisis<\/li>\n<li>In 2013, a Finnish toilet paper company accidentally printed Bible verses on its loo rolls, along with poetry and witty quotes. The company apologised for any offence and promised to be more careful in future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One \u2018mod con\u2019 we all take for granted is the humble toilet roll. Years ago, only kings and queens had access to toilet paper \u2013 everyone else used leaves (or later on, newspaper). The first person to use a type of toilet tissue was the Chinese emperor back in the 14th century, who commanded his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Fun","category-History_of_Office_Supplies","category-Janitorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Toilet Roll Facts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hold onto your seats - here&#039;s a roll call of loo paper facts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/toilet-roll-facts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toilet Roll Facts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hold onto your seats - 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