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“Wander into the bathroom products aisle at the supermarket and you’ve entered a topsy-turvy world where numbers shape-shift. A pack of 18 mega toilet paper rolls, for example, magically transforms into 90 ‘regular’ ones. The labeling emphasizes this greater number in large font, lest you foolishly think 18 simply equals 18. Another pack might insist that 12 even-thicker rolls of toilet paper are the equivalent of 96 normal rolls.” How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all. (All marketing copy aside, you’re paying more for your toilet paper. But this is not high on your list of worries, and the math is almost impossible, so you’ll probably just roll with it.)

+ This story is weirder than the headline suggests. And the headline suggests a pretty weird story. China roads blocked by thousands of cyclists in night quest for dumplings.