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Acting on an idea from his wife, Doris, the 81-year-old former maintenance worker set out to settle a problem.

“She complained that a roll in the 12-pack would last just three days and the same size in the four-roll pack lasted four,” Hill explained. “I wanted to find out.”

Hill figured he had the time, since there wasn’t much else to do but read or stare at the shower curtain. So he counted every sheet of toilet paper as he used it.

It wasn’t for any other reason, he said, than to know if the number of sheets noted on the package matched what was on the roll.

Buddy, a 3-year-old Labrador retriever opted for high-end snacks – two Super Bowl XLII tickets.

“I decided to try it because I thought all of the TV shows were lies, but turns out I was wrong,” Gavin said.

Billie Dempsey, Gavin’s mom, said a nurse called them to tell them the boys’ tongues were bleeding.

“The nurse asked them, ‘OK, who double-dog dared who?”‘ Billie Dempsey said, a reference to a phrase that a character in the movie used to dare another child to stick his tongue to the pole.