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a man had dirty teeth and wanted to clean them.
A prisoner in the 1600's was sick of washing his teeth with a clothe. He took a bone from some meat and drilled holes in it. He asked a guard for some bristles and you got the toothbrush.

The toothbrush was originally called a "chew stick".

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