Monday, October 31, 2011

NOW YOU KNOW

Toilet paper is not the greatest thing since sliced bread -- it can't be, because toilet paper predates it by over fifty years. Commercial toilet paper was invented in 1857 by a New Yorker named Joseph Gayetty, who sold packs of 500 sheets (each containing a watermark with his name) for fifty cents. The product was called "the greatest necessity of the age" per its marketing language, so perhaps, sliced bread is the greatest thing since toilet paper
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