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Cotton swabs began with a dangerous toothpick hack
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Sometimes a billion-dollar industry starts with entirely unsafe improvisations. Leo Gerstenzang watched his wife meticulously wrap tiny wads of cotton around sharp wooden toothpicks to clean hard-to-reach places. Realizing this was an incredibly perilous practice, he mass-produced a safer version that everyone now explicitly uses exactly where the box says not to.
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