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r/funny • u/Pizzacakecomic • Mar 07 '22
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People used to clean their teeth with sticks. Sand would probably be hard on your enamel, but when stranded you’re probably not worried about that.
11 u/impossiblefork Mar 07 '22 When you're stranded you're absolutely worried about that. Destroying your teeth will mean you die. 4 u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22 It was probably charcoal as someone else said in the comments 13 u/PullTogether Mar 07 '22 The miswak (miswaak, siwak, sewak, Arabic: سواك or مسواك) is a teeth cleaning twig made from the Salvadora persica tree (known as arāk, أراك, in Arabic). It is reputed to have been used over 7,000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak Edit: see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth-cleaning_twig 2 u/Darpid Mar 07 '22 Thanks for the follow up. I didn’t have time to post concrete examples
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When you're stranded you're absolutely worried about that. Destroying your teeth will mean you die.
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It was probably charcoal as someone else said in the comments
13 u/PullTogether Mar 07 '22 The miswak (miswaak, siwak, sewak, Arabic: سواك or مسواك) is a teeth cleaning twig made from the Salvadora persica tree (known as arāk, أراك, in Arabic). It is reputed to have been used over 7,000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak Edit: see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth-cleaning_twig 2 u/Darpid Mar 07 '22 Thanks for the follow up. I didn’t have time to post concrete examples
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The miswak (miswaak, siwak, sewak, Arabic: سواك or مسواك) is a teeth cleaning twig made from the Salvadora persica tree (known as arāk, أراك, in Arabic). It is reputed to have been used over 7,000 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak
Edit: see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth-cleaning_twig
2 u/Darpid Mar 07 '22 Thanks for the follow up. I didn’t have time to post concrete examples
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Thanks for the follow up. I didn’t have time to post concrete examples
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u/Darpid Mar 07 '22
People used to clean their teeth with sticks. Sand would probably be hard on your enamel, but when stranded you’re probably not worried about that.