What did people use to wipe their bums before toilet paper was invented?
Before modern toilet paper was introduced by Joseph Gayetty in 1857, Americans were stuck using corn cobs or mussel shells. Wealthy Romans used a salt-water soaked sponge tied to the end of a stick to get a clean behind, while the Vikings were fans of leftover sheeps’ wool. Coconut shells were the bottom cleansers for Hawaiians, the French used bidets and the Japanese used wooden sticks. Strange Health Facts Is it safe to drink your own urine? Since urine is 95 percent water mixed in with some salt, vitamins, hormones and disease-fighting antibodies, it probably won’t do you much harm. However, our kidneys work to remove toxins from the body, so it follows that drinking the product from the kidneys would reintroduce these waste products in to our bodies. Strange Health Facts Is eating boogers bad for you? Lung specialist, Dr. Friedrich Bischinger, has been quoted as saying “With the finger, you can get to places you just can’t reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner. A
