The image to which Williams referred was a patent filed in June of 1891 and published in September of that year by a man named Seth Wheeler for a then-innovative update to toilet paper: My invention ...

There are a lot of things in this world that people can never seem to agree — but not all of them are as obvious as toilet paper orientation. So, in order to bring to light some of the lesser-known ...

A bunch of us argued about which way was the true way for a while — some people seem to think it should face the wall to stop your cat from pulling it all down — but I quickly discovered people are ...

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