Did you know that the modern toothbrush was invented in West Virginia?
Had it been invented anywhere else it would have been called the teethbrush.
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JackPedigo
Level 9
Dec 2, 2020
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Yeah.
In Alabama the old people from the last century would cut a twig from a sweet gum tree then chew it to form a natural toothbrush, but it pointed straight from the handle since it didn’t have a 90 degree angle.
Willow_Wisp
Level 8
Dec 1, 2020
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I remember an uncle teaching me how to get a feather off a hen and turn it into a Qtip substitute swab to clean my ears. Humans Improvise, make things do with what ever they got around them. I finally got why he had a one tooth comb and called it West Virginia Comb. He never told me why, possible he didn't knew and then again, he always laughed about the comb... He was the "Character" on my grandmother family side. He said "I got good luck with guns, I had fired a gun 4 times, I had killed 3, all in self defense." True statement and every time he went to jail, he got his wife pregnant before leaving and as soon he came back... A lot of kids, all looked like him. Nobody questioned his DNA on them. He is missed, best advice he gave me was... "Never use a gun, never kill anyone, once you kill your first, you get a reputation that you kill and prompt people into wanting to kill you... you may not be as lucky as I was. I regret that first one even if he deserved". Maybe best advice I ever received. He tried to keep all the boys in the family from ending in Prison, We appreciated that.
Actually, that would be the first modern toothbrush.
When I saw West Virginia, I knew that something wasn't quite right. So while not always the first source one should always look at, I looked up on Wikipedia, and found that the history was longer than I thought. One which I was expecting one was from a prisoner in 1770 in Britain who thought what was offered in prison was very lacking. But it goes back further, as the Japanese observed chinese monks using them in the 13th century.
thexter
Level 6
Dec 1, 2020
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I live in Modern Times... I guess that is why I had never read the bible even when I was an A-B student in Religion. But Kudos for your Research.... There is always a guy that can never get what is a Joke.
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