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The amazing history of TP started back in China AD 1391 when the Bureau of Imperial Supplies began making 720,000 sheets of TP every year. Each seet measured 2ft by 3ft (61cm by 91 cm) and was just for the Emperors. Many years later in 1857 Joseph Gayetty's New York company was the first to package and sell bathroom tissue in the USA and Mr. Gayetty had his name printed on every sheet!
The Scott Paper Company in the USA was the first to make TP on a roll in 1890 and had to use many different product names on the package because of the "unmentionable" character of TP. Before we had TP people used old newsprint, hayballs, a scraper stick kept in a bucket in the privy, discarded sheep's wool, corn cobs, the frayed end of an anchor rope, straw, grass, leaves, pages from a book, coconut shells, eskimos used snow and tundra moss, lace (French Royalty), water and your left hand in India and muslim countries, and in ancient Rome they used a sponge soaked in salt water on the end of a stick.
St. Andrew's Paper Mill in Walthamstow, London gave the world soft toilet paper in 1942. Before then, many brands were single-ply and very stiff. But military TP has traditionally been rough stuff. And modern armies can sometimes find special uses for TP that require military colors. During the first US Gulf War, the Pentagon (which itself uses over 700 rolls of TP every day) decided to issue TP with a camouflage design pattern. It seems that the US Army troops in had used a big part of its TP supply as a handy way to quickly camouflage tanks in the deserts of Iraq and Kuwait.
Today there are over 3 billion toilet paper users in the world and that number is growing fast. Each of us TP users roll out 60 squares of the stuff every day. That adds up to about 3,000 sq ft each year (300 sq m) per person. The yearly TP use in the USA alone would be enough to cover the State of North Carolina, and on a world scale, TP use would be able to cover the entire country of Turkey which is over 300,000 sq miles (779,500 sq Km). Imagine how that would look on Google Earth!
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