To support his claim that “Cottonelle’s hole is huge now,” he pulls previous toilet paper rolls from his trash; they are significantly smaller than the Cottonelle roll he originally showed viewers.

Fortunately, an American named Joseph Gayetty demonstrated a bit of Yankee ingenuity in 1857 when he created our first “modern” toilet paper in the form of medicated sheets. Curiously ...

The existence of the modern private bathroom with a flushing ... but the first packaged toilet paper was only invented in 1857 and it didn’t become common in roll form until 1907.