This Week’s Most Popular Stories
In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all week, here’s what you missed: 1. 5 Classic Poisons and the People Who Used Them, by Miss Cellania * 2. The Quick 10: If 10 Fast Food Joints Had Stuck With the Original Plan, by Stacy Conradt * 3. R2-D2, GOB Bluth & Other Fiction

Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe
Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, corncobs, sheep’s wool—and, later, thanks to the printing press—newspapers, magazines, and pages of books. The ancient Greeks used clay and stone. The Romans, sponges and salt water. But the idea of a commercial product designed solely to wipe one’s bum? That started about 150 years ago, right here in the U.S.A. In less than a century, Uncle Sam’s marketing genius turned something disposable into something indispensable.  How Toilet Paper Got on a Roll

The Weekend Links
From the Annals of Too Much Time: An incredible movie mashup that creates a song (that rhymes! with a beat!) from bits of dialogue spanning TV and movies from the ’20s onward. (Also try playing the game of “which movie is that from?” while you watch) * Will the Duggars inherit the earth? Is Jim Bob the new Genghis Khan? Scary! *

Lunchtime Quiz Leftovers

The 5pm Quiz: State Flags
We’ve tested your knowledge of state quarters, license plates and s