Fun facts on the fives!
Today I looked into some amusing dental floss facts. This is actually pretty enlightening (and funny).
Year commercial floss was first manufactured: 1882
Material it was first made of: silk
Newest material: Gore-tex
Amount bought per person: 18 yards
Amount that should be bought per person: 122 yards (figuring one foot a day)
Percent who say they floss daily: 28% (some are fibbing, according to the sales data above)
Apparently I am not the only one who struggles with this habit. From all the stuff I've learned in the last two weeks though, everyone would benefit greatly from it.
The most fun fact I found about dental floss though:
In 1994 a prison inmate in West Virginia braided floss into a rope, scaled the wall and escaped.
I guess, for this one guy, NOT flossing (and saving the floss) was far more beneficial than flossing. I wonder if the prison systems let prisoners floss after that. I wonder how you find such a thing out.
**Daily report for yesterday.
Yup, more goodness.
On the one hand, it's getting really dull to simply report every day on successes, at least for you, dear reader. For me, it's cool to see that I can string together two solid weeks of 'perfect behavior'. In fact, the way the whole concept of this blog is set up, each change is so small, I should not ever fail. (Don't worry, once I get out of this tooth brushing thing, I am certain I will find a way to screw something up.) So if you like to see people screw up...just stay tuned.
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