Toilet roll in fridge 'soaks up odours'

And other stories from the stranger side of life

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People are keeping their toilet paper in the fridge for a "bonkers" reason, said LadBible. It's "not exactly the most appetising sight when you swing the door open", said the outlet, but "people claim the tissue has a strange superpower" because it "supposedly soaks up all the odours plaguing your fridge". A TikTok said it was a "secret hack" stolen from the hotel industry, where it is commonplace in big kitchens.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.