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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 132 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There are people still alive who remember a world before "splinter-free" toilet paper.

The manufacturing of this product had a long period of refinement, considering that as late as the 1930s, a selling point of the Northern Tissue company was that their toilet paper was "splinter free".

-Wikipedia

[–] just_cramblin@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucking OUCH

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes you need that good, deep clean only a chunk of bark will give you.

[–] cone_zombie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Also known as "scooping"

[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And in 2023 the majority of Americans still have not discovered the joy of using a bidet.

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly because they think it will “turn you gay” or some shit

[–] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my favorite Wikipedia page now. Love that Wikipedia takes itself so seriously that they actually list the uses of toilet paper.

[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 10 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed "See also: Anal Hygiene"

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

History smells awful.

[–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 7 points 1 year ago

til: nokia sold toilet paper

[–] kool_newt@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

That's a thought I did not need in my head.