19 Facts About Toilet paper

Toilet paper can be used in cleaning like a less abrasive paper towel.

Toilet paper comes in various numbers of plies, from one- to six-ply, with more back-to-back plies providing greater strength and absorbency.

Toilet paper concludes that "the neck of a goose, that is well downed" provides an optimum cleansing medium.

Gayetty's Toilet paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s.

Toilet paper dispensed from rolls was popularized when the Scott Paper Company began marketing it in 1890.

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The widespread adoption of the flush toilet increased the use of toilet paper, as heavier paper was more prone to clogging the trap that prevents sewer gases from escaping through the toilet.

Toilet paper has been one of the commodities subject to shortages in Venezuela starting in the 2010s; the government seized one toilet paper factory in a failed effort to resolve the problem.

Demand was higher for the types of toilet paper used at home because so many people were at home who would have used toilet paper away from home.

Toilet paper is usually manufactured from pulpwood trees, but is sometimes made from sugar cane byproducts or bamboo.

Toilet paper products vary greatly in the distinguishing technical factors, such as size, weight, roughness, softness, chemical residues, "finger-breakthrough" resistance, water-absorption, etc.

Today, in the United States, plain unpatterned colored toilet paper has been mostly replaced by patterned toilet paper, normally white, with embossed decorative patterns or designs in various colors and different sizes depending on the brand.

Colored toilet paper remains commonly available in some European countries.

Toilet roll holder, known as a toilet paper dispenser, is an item that holds a roll of toilet paper.

Some commercial or institutional toilet paper is wrapped around a cylinder to many times the thickness of a standard toilet paper roll.

Special toilet paper insert holders with an oblong shape were invented to prevent continuous unrolling without tearing to discourage this practice.

Toilet paper has been used in physics education to demonstrate the concepts of torque, moment of inertia, and angular momentum; and the conservation of momentum and energy.

Toilet paper made from recycled paper avoids the direct environmental impact of cutting down trees, and is commercially available.

Toilet paper produced from bamboo is commercially available, and is in some ways more environmentally friendly than virgin pulpwood, because bamboo grows faster, taking less land and less water.

Toilet paper produced from bagasse, a byproduct of sugarcane, is commercially available, and avoids cutting down any plants because sugarcane is already grown for sugar production.