Wednesday, August 26 is

Top five things you didn’t know about toilet paper:

It’s really, really old: The first documented use of toilet paper dates back to the 6th century A.D., in early medieval China.1

Manufacturers were doing a brisk business well before the Renaissance: By the early 14th century in modern-day Zhejiang (China) province alone, ten million packages of toilet paper were produced.1

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Marketing changed the game: Joseph Gayetty, an inventor, is widely credited with the invention of modern commercially available toilet paper, first introduced in 1857.2

It’s a big, big business: Today, more than seven billion rolls of toilet paper are sold yearly in the U.S. alone.1

The average person flushes a toilet 2,500 times a year: Bacteria in the sewer system breaks down tissue after the flush, but don’t forget to recycle the tube!3

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Bonus fact:At VeritivTM, we sell a lot of it. A whole, whole lot.

Veritiv sells approximately 2 million cases of toilet paper each year4

• 192 million rolls• 192 billion squares• Just enough toilet

paper to cover the state of Texas!1 Dr. Joseph Needham, Volume 5, Part 1, 123

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gayetty 3 http://www.worldtoilet.org/4 assumes 96 rolls per case of one-ply and a standard square of 4.5” x 4.5”© 2015 Veritiv Corporation. All rights reserved. Veritiv and the Veritiv logo are trademarks of Veritiv Corporation or its affiliates.

NATIONAL TOILET PAPER DAY!