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ALBANY – If Seth Wheeler could see how his 19th-century invention of perforated toilet paper had become the hot commodity of the coronavirus pandemic, one could only guess what he would do. “If the ...

The “over versus under” toilet paper argument has been waged in bathrooms around everywhere since it was first invented. Plenty of space online in the form of polls and listicles has been dedicated to ...

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