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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 148 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

[–] just_cramblin@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fucking OUCH

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] cone_zombie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Also known as "scooping"

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