Toothbrush History
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The Toothbrush Was Invented in Prison | Object Histories
Ancient people cleaned their teeth by chewing on sticks, and it worked better than you’d think. From 5,000-year-old chew sticks in Babylon and Egypt, to a prison cell in 1780 London, hog-bristle brushes from Ming dynasty China, and the DuPont chemists who replaced them with nylon — this is the surprising history of the object…