9 most random facts about toilet paper

If you hang your toilet paper so you can pull it from the bottom, you are considered to be more intelligent than someone who pulls it from the top.

Just because you use toilet paper everyday does not mean you know everything there is to know about it.

Because it is National Toilet Paper Day, we give you the top nine most weirdest facts about toilet paper you probably did not know.

1. Water, hay, leaves, sticks, stones, sand moss, fruit peels, ferns, sponges, seashells, and broken pottery have all been used as a substitute for toilet paper.

2. People in America use 50 per cent more toilet paper than anyone else.

3. Each tree produces about 45 kilograms of toilet paper. On average, global toilet paper demand consumes nearly 30 000 trees each day.

4. The US Army used toilet paper as camouflage. During Desert Storm, the US Army used toilet paper to camouflage its tanks.

5. America is the largest exporter of toilet paper in the world.

6. The average roll of toilet paper has 333 sheets.

7. The reason toilet paper disintegrates easily when it is wet is because the fibers used to make it are very short.

8. Renova is the most expensive toilet paper in the world. It is three-ply, perfumed and costs about R39 per roll which comes in assorted colours like black, red, blue and green.

9. Beyoncé only uses red Renova toilet paper.

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