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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Toilet Paper, a Hard Nut to Crack

In ancient china, there were emperors who started using toilet paper in the 13 hundreds. The sheets that they used to order, each sheet would measure two feet by three feet. They went through like 720 thousand sheets of toilet paper every year. It didn't catch on until 18 90 - because wiping your bottom was quite an embarrassing thing to talk about or even admit that you'd ever done. I read about a chest grandmaster in 20 15, who was caught cheating due to using toilet paper. Cheated with toilet paper. What do you think? Oh how did they say it? One said fruit for dessert. And another one says, that be be a toilet paper thing, th

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