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    Quick Quirk Quiz: Things In the Bathroom
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Things In the Bathroom
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Things In the Bathroom
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    Quick Quirk Quiz: Things In the Bathroom

    By Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

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    The stuff you store in your bathroom didn’t get their by accident. Long before you bought it, brought it home, and crammed it into your medicine chest, someone was wondering... experimenting... discovering... manufacturing... and
    marketing. Here are 28 tales behind the things you use when you’re in the bathroom. Can you guess the product after hearing the story behind its invention?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Spencer - Trivia Queen
    Release dateNov 12, 2009
    ISBN9781311606495
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Things In the Bathroom
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    Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

    Janet Spencer:Trivia Queen of the UniverseRoyal Ruler of Useless InformationMaster of Arcane Knowledge and Extraneous LoreKeeper of Forgotten Facts and Startling StatisticsFreelance Hysterics * Creative Profanities * Quantum PerplexitiesJanet Spencer was born in 1960 to a poor white sharecropper in Illinois. At 12, she slipped aboard a southbound freighter headed for Australia, where she was further raised by a pack of wild dingoes. Naturally curious and totally obsessed with the minor details of life, she traveled to London to join the Royal Astronomical Society to learn more of the world and the universe. However, the RAS had a long-standing ban against allowing in poor white sharecroppers half raised by wild dingoes, so she instead camped outside and counting the bricks making up the snobby institution. This was a pivotal experience for her. Finding there were exactly 17,431 bricks started her on her lifelong quest for small details, amazing truths, and petty coincidences. The Trivia Queen claimed her crown!Since then, she has been roaming the world from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, counting bricks, observing small insects, and measuring the average number of grains in a typical salt shaker. With such a vast storehouse of trivial knowledge, she now embarks on a new quest: to share this information with her fellow humans - stumping experts, amazing laymen, and bringing wide-eyed blank stares to all those around her. She is the author of several books including "Montana Trivia" and "Yellowstone Trivia" published by www.RiverbendPublishing.comJanet Spencer spends her spare time serving as chairwoman of the Associated Association of Associated Associations, playing with spatulas, and conversing with ducks.

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      Quick Quirk Quiz - Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

      BATHROOM

      The Quick Quirk Quiz

      The Surprising Stories, Hidden History,

      and Unusual Origins Behind Familiar Things

      By Janet Spencer, Trivia Queen of the Universe

      Royal Ruler of Useless Information

      Master of Arcane Knowledge & Extraneous Lore

      Keeper of Forgotten Facts & Startling Statistics

      Published by Janet Spencer at Smashwords.com

      Copyright 2009 Janet Spencer

      Discover other works by Janet Spencer at

      www.smashwords.com/profile/view/triviaqueen

      www.TriviaQueen.com

      www.RiverbendPublishing.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Thank you for your support!

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Adventures in Toilet Paper

      Cellucotton

      Protector of Toilet Paper

      Paper Pulp Product

      A Man and a Mouthwash

      Sterile Dressings

      A Better Bandage

      A Greasy Substance

      A Home Remedy

      A Pain Reliever

      Chocolate Flavored Remedy

      A New Prescription

      Townsend R22 Gets a New Name

      A Baby’s Bottom

      Optical Shop Discovery

      Sunglasses & Sales

      A Sweet Scent

      A Free Gift

      A Cosmetic Company

      A Determined Woman

      Relief for Rough Skin

      John’s Shampoo

      Razor’s Edge

      A Close Shave

      Crazy for Curls

      Soap & Candles

      White Soap

      Wall Cleaner

      Adventures in Toilet Paper

      When brothers Irvin and Clarence moved to Philadelphia and started a paper business in the 1870s, they sold butcher paper, paper bags, and stationery from a push-cart. When they moved into a storefront, sales dropped. They needed a product that would be constantly in demand. Just at that time, indoor plumbing was becoming popular. In private homes, people used catalogs in the bathroom. But hotels and restaurants, after going through the trouble of installing indoor plumbing, couldn’t bring themselves to put catalogs in bathrooms. So Irvin and Clarence started experimenting with toilet tissue, an idea that had been around a while but had never caught on. First they manufactured stacks of individual sheets, but it was difficult to keep the pile neat. So they tried wrapping it around a cardboard tube. It

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