Friday, February 3, 2012

Fun Friendly Phobic Fact Friday! Tooth Hygiene Edition.

The first recorded use of toothpaste was about a thousand years ago by a Roman named Scibonius Largus. (Which translates to Large Bonerus.) <-- Outright lie

Anyway, Large Bonerus's toothpaste was a mixture of honey, salt, and ground motherfucking glass. 



Thank you, Colgate, for improving the formula.



Oh, and Ancient Spaniards use to dip their toothbrushes in human urine.




6 comments:

  1. Toothpaste actually still contains ground glass (sort of) - it's listed as hydrated silica on the ingredients, but it's basically a very fine, very pure sand suspended in water to act as an abrasive. It actually makes toothpaste really useful for cleaning things other than teeth. I used it to clean a keyboard once.

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  2. Ewwww human urine. OK I think I cannot even process that right now

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  3. MB: I bet you have a new appreciation for Cool Mint flavor now. The alternative could be Asparagus Pee.

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  4. Yeah, Big Boner should have just used regular sand and cut the glass people out of the supply chain.

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  5. Eh, Andrew, I don't think it's fair to say that there's "basically" glass in today's toothpaste, just because sand can become glass after undergoing a certain process. Otherwise, we'd all go let our children frolic in the glass at the beach, or play in their glassbox, and we'd ask, "Who got glass in your vagina?"

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  6. the silica in toothpaste is actually diatoms. diatomacious earth.

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