After brewing up 49 uses for tea last month, we came across a household staple even more versatile and valuable. With thanks to "Bon Appetit" and "Readers Digest" magazines, along with a bunch of ...

We've all got a box of toothpicks tucked away in a junk drawer or pantry. Sure, they come in handy for removing food from our teeth, but these tiny wooden sticks are capable of much more! From jazzing ...

Authors presented new evidence of ‘habitual use’ of toothpicks 1.8 million years ago Los Angeles: Say what you will about early Pleistocene man, he sure liked to keep his teeth clean — or at least as ...

It is rare that one cannot see me without a toothpick in my mouth. Perhaps a good substitute for a cigar or one of those psychological dependencies, for whatever reason it is one of my favorite ...

The toothpick is not just “among the simplest of manufactured things,” Petroski explains, but one of the oldest: Grooves on fossilized teeth suggest that early hominids might have regularly applied ...

1. Bring Home the Bakin': This one's obvious, but bears mentioning. Insert a clean toothpick into cakes and breads as they bake to test doneness. If the toothpick comes out doughy and wet, leave the ...

While toothpicks may seem like a random object to reuse, you probably have a ton of them lying around your house in miscellaneous drawers and other places. And while toothpicks are perfect for serving ...

Ingested toothpicks have often been reported as the cause of gastrointestinal injuries, 1 and in one case a toothpick migrated into the pericardium, resulting in constrictive pericarditis. 2 We report ...