{"id":3969,"date":"2011-01-05T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T04:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:15:09","slug":"johnny-carson-once-caused-a-month-long-toilet-paper-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/johnny-carson-once-caused-a-month-long-toilet-paper-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Carson Once Caused a Month Long Toilet Paper Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/johnny-carson-toilet-paper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3970\" title=\"johnny-carson-toilet-paper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/johnny-carson-toilet-paper.jpg\" alt=\"toilet paper shortage caused by Johnny Carson\" width=\"558\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/johnny-carson-toilet-paper.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/johnny-carson-toilet-paper-340x368.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Toilet Paper Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/toilet-paper-was-first-used-by-the-chinese\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read More Toilet Paper Facts <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johnny Carson once caused a near month long toilet paper shortage in the U.S. in December of 1973.\u00a0 In his show, he said, \u201cYou know what\u2019s disappearing from the supermarket shelves?\u00a0 Toilet paper\u2026 There\u2019s an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States.\u201d\u00a0 Americans promptly went out and bought up every piece of toilet paper they could find.\u00a0 Supermarkets tried to ration it, but to no avail.\u00a0 By noon the next day, pretty much all the nation\u2019s supermarkets were sold out.<\/p>\n<p>After several days of toilet paper shortages due to this hysteria, Carson went on the air to try to explain it had been a joke and apologized.\u00a0 But because the shelves were almost always empty of toilet paper at this time, whenever some would come in, people would buy it all and hoard it.\u00a0 This toilet paper shortage lasted a full three weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Toilet Paper Facts Text Version Johnny Carson once caused a near month long toilet paper shortage in the U.S. in December of 1973.\u00a0 In his show, he said, \u201cYou know what\u2019s disappearing from the supermarket shelves?\u00a0 Toilet paper\u2026 There\u2019s an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States.\u201d\u00a0 Americans promptly went out and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[911,1128,1127,1126],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-bizarre-facts","tag-funny-facts","tag-johnny-carson-facts","tag-johnny-carson-toilet-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6989,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/6989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}