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The Top-Secret Research (and Fake Poop) Behind Every Roll of Toilet Paper

Everybody poops—around a pound a day, in fact—and everybody wants a clean butt. Good old TP has come a long way since the first commercial toilet paper was marketed 162 years ago, and you might be surprised at how much Research & Development goes into each roll. We recently talked to researchers at Proctor and…

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Everybody poops—around a pound a day, in fact—and everybody wants a clean butt. Good old TP has come a long way since the first commercial toilet paper was marketed 162 years ago, and you might be surprised at how much Research & Development goes into each roll. We recently talked to researchers at Proctor and Gamble about the secret sauce that helps Charmin keep your rear-end feeling fresh. And by secret sauce, we mean secret fake poo. Here’s the inside poop scoop.

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Producer/Video by: Jason Lederman

Writer/Narrator: Rachel Feltman

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Additional equipment:
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Canon Zoom Lens EF24-105mm –
Sachtler Ace XL Tripod System –
Sennheiser EW100ENG G3 Camera Wireless Mic Kit –
Litepanels Astra E 1×1 Daylight LED Panel –
Lowepro Magnum 650 AW Shoulder Bag –
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Music: APM Music

Media: Pond5, Wikimedia Commons

Special Thanks: Charmin, The Procter & Gamble Company

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8 Comments

8 Comments

  1. MichaelAChang

    August 15, 2019 at 11:02 am

  2. I has a cat i'm aubrey

    August 15, 2019 at 11:19 am

    this was an awkward video to turn on lol

  3. Jack McDaniel

    August 15, 2019 at 1:41 pm

    Americans are so squeamish about so many things that it is hilarious to think that they are still smearing s*** with toilet paper.

  4. Jimmy Shot

    August 15, 2019 at 2:18 pm

    *walks in lab and sprays Liquid Ass fart spray*, yells “this is real shit!!!!”

  5. jeff shein

    August 15, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    This is definitely my #2 favorite video on YouTube.

  6. A3Kr0n

    August 16, 2019 at 2:23 am

    I use about one roll per month. Who’s using my extra rolls and for what purpose?

    • Dean Evangelista

      August 18, 2019 at 2:50 am

      I have one of those “washlet” seats, and a roll will last me up to three months.

  7. robbie scarallo

    November 19, 2019 at 5:03 am

    5:22 “Because humans are ridiculous prudes”

    5:55 “How often do you go”? (cuts answer out due to self-consciousness)

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Americans loved drinking radioactive ‘miracle water’ in 1920s

Radithor promised to cure everything from wrinkles to leukemia, but its unintended results were deadly. Watch the full video:

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The Experiment That Tried to Weigh the Human Soul

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t deter Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique bed-scale detected that 21 grams left the human body at the moment of death. He had finally discovered it: the weigh of the human soul … or so he…

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It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t deter Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique bed-scale detected that 21 grams left the human body at the moment of death.

He had finally discovered it: the weigh of the human soul … or so he thought.

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The Radioactive “Miracle Water” That Killed Its Believers

If you lived in the 1920s, you might have found a pamphlet advertising “the greatest therapeutic force known to mankind.” Radithor was a tiny bottle of clear, colorless water that claimed to cure acne, anemia, heart disease, poison ivy, impotence, asthma, and any other malady you could imagine. There was only one side effect: DEATH.…

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If you lived in the 1920s, you might have found a pamphlet advertising “the greatest therapeutic force known to mankind.” Radithor was a tiny bottle of clear, colorless water that claimed to cure acne, anemia, heart disease, poison ivy, impotence, asthma, and any other malady you could imagine.

There was only one side effect: DEATH.

So, why did 1920s Americans go gaga for radioactive water? Well, it’s complicated.

Host: Annie Colbert
Reported by: April White
Editing and graphics by Avital Oehler
Written and produced by Matt Silverman

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