U.S. Products has begun a 10-part special feature on its Facebook page, listing the top 10 benefits of wall-to-wall carpeting for a home or business.

Pop Quiz: What’s 4,000x dirtier than a toilet seat, contains 200,000 bacteria per square inch and is home to hundreds of thousands of different species?

Do you know where the word “carpet” came from? The term derives from the Latin work carpere, or “to pluck,” probably because at that time carpets were made from unraveled, or “plucked,” fabric.