Book Excerpt for the Day

(Three assertions.  Two are factual; one is bullsh*t.  Which one?  Answer in the comments)

TOILET PAPER!

1. In the U.S., a household of four will, on average, use two trees' worth of toilet paper per year.

2. The first documented use of toilet paper in human history was in China in the sixth century A.D.  By the ninth century A.D., using toilet paper was common is China (which is where paper was invented).

3. The inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the U.S. was an entrepreneur named Henry Joy.  Joy's Therapeutic Paper was introduced in 1740, and was rolled up on thin wooden rods in packages of three.


(from Fact. Fact. Bullsh*t!, by Neil Patrick Stewart)

8*/10.  The full review is here.