The trick is to provide the most basic information about life (for example, a solemn page on the correct use of lavatory paper: how to hang it and, worse, how to use it) in a format that looks amusing and stimulating for the general reader.

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Turkish news reports have described the man as a homeless scrap paper collector who used to hang around Istanbul's ancient city walls.

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