Western Europe uses about 30 pounds (13.6 kg) toilet paper per person
Latin America uses about 9 pounds (4.1 kg) per person per year
People in Asia and Africa use the least per year:
Asians use a little less than 4 pounds (1.8 kg) per person per year
Africans use about 0.88 pounds (about 0.4 kg) per person per year
Some form of toilet paper has existed since at least the sixth century A.D. One court in the Ming dynasty recorded the annual use of 720,000 sheets of toilet paper in pieces that were 2 feet (61 cm) by 3 feet (91.4 cm).
Anal cleansing instruments from the Nara period (710 to 784) in Japan. A drainage system consisting of 10–15 cm wide streams where the user could squat over with one foot on each side of the stream.
Wooden sticks called Chuugi were used as a sort of toilet paper. In earlier days seaweed was used for cleaning, but by the Edo period, these had been replaced by toilet paper made of washi (traditional Japanese paper).
In the mountainous regions, wooden scrapers and large leaves were used too.
Only slightly less uncomfortable was Izal medicated toilet tissue.
Hard and shiny it was totally nonabsorbent ........
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Around the time soft tissue was introduced into the British Army latrines we lost the Empire. It doesn't take a genius to work out that pampering the troops results in troops who wear pampers.
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