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TIL toilet paper wasn’t “splinter free” until the 1930’s (www.history.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's why no one is smiling in all those old photos

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I had to use a proxy to check the link. Those fuckers at history dot com can't have taxpayers of different governments sharing links, so depending on your IP the article redirects to some front page.

Scientific American has further, overlapping info. It mentions the Roman tersorium, as well some Greek habit to clean it with smoothed fragments of ceramic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The three seashells! :O

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Splintered for your pleasure

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