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[ghost of nixon]

I hear wolly mammoth is very stringy - toothpicks would have been in high demand

[RightWhale]

Tool use. Could this have been the birth of civilization: bone or wooden toothpicks?

[No Blue States]

"Hlusko spent 8 hours grinding a piece of grass along a tooth taken from a baboon. She then replicated the experiment for 3 hours on a modern human tooth"

Man 11 hrs of doing that cant be much fun.. Im sure early people picked their teeth, and with whatever was handy to get that jerky unstuck. And probably not as a custom but because like to us it bothersome.. I would think a small broken twig with a sharp end would work fine. Heck they may have even flossed with sinew.. these 11 hrs outside would have been better spent looking for a T-Rex head or paleo points.

[DannyTN]

I bet toilet paper or at least moss was first.

[farmfriend]

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[Age of Reason]

Maybe the fur on the meat they ate got stuck between their teeth, and the grooves came from pulling it out.

[P.O.E.]

Too Much Information Alert:

After I bite off a fingernail, I find it makes an excellent toothpick. It's curved and pointy, you invert it in four directions to get every nook & cranny.

I've always wondered if teeth and fingernails co-evolved as a result.