💡 Trivia Ancient Egyptians used dead mice to ease toothaches

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In ancient Egypt, people put a dead mouse in their mouth if they had a toothache, according to David Haviland’s 2010 book Why You Should Store Your Farts in a Jar. Mice were also used as a warts remedy in Elizabethan England—after being cut in half, they’d be applied to the spot.

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