It was the Chinese who invented the first toilet paper as we know it in the 14th Century. I, for one, am glad they did. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_people_use_before_they_had_toilet_paper#ixzz1Fft1pK60 15% world population uses/afford toilet paper! That’s a-lot of folk...
I think the Vision Pro was something more akin to the Newton– somebody had a big idea to change the world, the way Apple always does, and people at the company got really excited and invented a bunch of new technology to make it work, but it ended up too expensive for the mark...
What did the shy pebble say? I wish I was a little boulder. Did you hear about the kidnapping down the street? His mom woke him up. What did the fish say when he ran into a wall in the river? Dam! Why didn’t the toilet paper cross the road? It got stuck in a crack. ...
It was a world without buttons, which had yet to be invented. Clothes were still fastened with clasps and thongs. Life was short. How did people wipe before toilet paper? People used leaves, grass, ferns, corn cobs, maize, fruit skins, seashells, stone, sand, moss, snow and water. ...
When did paper become white? And at about the same time, bymid-1844, they announced their findings. They invented a machine which extracted the fibres from wood (exactly as with rags) and made paper from it. Charles Fenerty also bleached the pulp so that the paper was white. This started...
The U-shape was meant to give ladies plenty of room to wipe without having to stand up or touch the seat directly. That's especially helpful for those of us nesters who like to put down a layer of toilet paper on the seat before we pop a squat. Don't like that answer? Think ...
Two new studies, this time finding immune amnesia due to measles, show why measles is serious and you should vaccinate your children.
I personally believe that a great opportunity was missed when HTML was invented. Donald Knuth did an absolutely brilliant job of analysing what was required to do markup properly. He completely solved the problem for all time! His model based on boxes linked with flexible glue dealt with spacing...
Adler invented the Zenith Space-Command in 1956, which while it sounds like something Buzz Lightyear joined in high school, was actually the world's first wireless remote. Changing the Channel Was a Lot Louder Back Then The first Zenith Space-Command television remote controller operated a little...
By the late 18th century, hair removal still wasn’t considered essential by European and American women, although when the first safety razor for men was invented by French barber Jacques Perret in 1760, some women reportedly used them too. ...