according to the Koran, “a prayer which is preceded by the use of a toothpick is worth seventy-five ordinary prayers.” As for the Bard, in “Much Ado About Nothing,” the soldier Benedick offers to fetch Don Pedro “a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch of Asia.” Finally, ... All tidbits (ha) tha...
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In 1872, Silas Noble & J. P. Cooley patented the first toothpick-manufacturing machine. Toothpaste was used as long ago as 500 BC.
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The natives of Brazil invented but a man named Charles Forster took their idea and made them in the U.S.A and made millions of dollars.
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Science question: Who invented mass production of the toothpick? The first toothpick-manufacturing machine was patented in 1872, by Silas Noble and J. P. Cooley ... Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Science > Who invented mass production of the toothpick...
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Toothpick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A toothpick is a small stick of wood, plastic, bamboo, metal or other substance used to remove detritus from the teeth, usually after a meal. Some toothpicks are made from animal bones as opposed to...
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Famous and infamous inventions. ... Graham Durant, John Emmett and Charon Ganellin co-invented Tagamet. Tagamet inhibits the production of stomach acid. ... Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. The general history of telegraphy. Optical Telegraph...
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I continue to be amazed by how interesting and smart my blog readers are. Who knew golfers ring bells? Not me. ... So here's the game: please leave a comment telling me something I don't know. Preferably something interesting, although my standards for what is interesting are very low. ... Posted on January 25, 2005 | Permalink...
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Remarkable as it may seem in this synthetic age, the modern toothpick is made out of unreconstituted virgin white birch, just as its predecessors have been since after the Civil War, when Charles Forster invented the automatic toothpick-making machine.
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The Q-tip was invented in the 1920's Leo Gerstenzang (a Polish-born American). His wife had used a toothpick with cotton stuck on the end to clean their baby's ears, and Leo invented Q-tips to replace her jury-rigged invention.
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