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Who invented toilet paper?
Updated: 9 Feb 2021, 10:52
TOILET paper is considered an essential nowadays but it wasn t always available.
Mass produced loo roll only become widely available in the late 1800s. Before that, it was literally a case of anything goes.
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When was toilet paper invented?
China is credited with inventing toilet paper long before it was adopted in the western world.
There is written evidence that Chinese people were using paper for cleansing as early as 500AD, some 300 years after they started using paper for other purposes.
Packs of toilet paper with as many as 10,000 sheets, sometimes even perfumed, were available in China by the 13th century.