Setting the record straight on this¹ ahead of
#WorldToiletDay: it’s over, not under 😉
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¹ The original patent² for the toilet paper holder illustrated by Seth Wheeler in 1891 whose patent not only created the piece of hardware we are all familiar with, but was also designed to reduce the amount of toilet paper used by introducing the perforated (or the tearable lines that separate one sheet from the next) toilet paper roll itself.
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patents.google.com/patent/US465588A/en