Multiple choice general knowledge

Toilet paper was invented in the year ______?

  1. 1837

  2. 1857

  3. 1900

  4. 1947
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Joseph Gayetty introduced the first commercial toilet paper in 1857, selling it as 'Gayetty's Medicated Paper' packaged in flat sheets with aloe. While paper for cleansing purposes existed in China centuries earlier, 1857 marks the first modern commercial toilet paper in the Western world. The rolled form we commonly use today came later, around 1890.

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