# Why do the first two tissues always come out together?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 27, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-first-two-tissues-always-come-out-together/52053 "2001-01-27T23:45:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-first-two-tissues-always-come-out-together/52053/1 "2001-01-27T23:45:55Z")

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Why is it that when I open a new box of tissues, the first two come out together, so that I have to use one and set the other one on top of the Kleenex box? Why can’t they make the first one come out by itself?