17-February-2006, 10:55 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
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Don't ask me how I ended up at a toothpaste site, but:
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Before toothpaste was invented people used all kinds of dry, rough things as an abrasive to clean their teeth – things like crushed eggshell, pumice, the burnt hooves of animals!!!
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Burnt hooves? Wasn't aware of that. 
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The world's oldest-known formula for toothpaste, used more than 1,500 years before Colgate began marketing the first commercial brand in 1873, has been discovered on a piece of dusty papyrus in the basement of a Viennese museum.
In faded black ink made of soot and gum arabic mixed with water, an ancient Egyptian scribe has carefully described what he calls a "powder for white and perfect teeth". (ctnd.)
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Sunset
Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
mit seinen Schatten, die voll Kühlung sind.
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