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The Indispensables - toothpaste
Part of a series on everyday items and their origins, this week - toothpaste
Part of a series on everyday items and their origins, this week - toothpaste. Cornelia Roemer, director of the papyrus collection in Vienna talks about the early toothpastes. The programme's reporter attempts to make the earliest existing recipe for toothpaste, it is over 1600 years old and was recently recovered from the vaults of the Austrian National Library.
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