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[โ€“] [email protected] 149 points 1 year ago (10 children)

There are people still alive who remember a world before "splinter-free" toilet paper.

The manufacturing of this product had a long period of refinement, considering that as late as the 1930s, a selling point of the Northern Tissue company was that their toilet paper was "splinter free".

-Wikipedia

[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes you need that good, deep clean only a chunk of bark will give you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also known as "scooping"

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