Can't see the video? Download an mp4 [21 MB] version of this video. Snap five toothpicks so the two halves remained joined together by a tiny hinge. Matchsticks work too. Bamboo toothpicks aren't ...

A satirist once described a fictitious journal, titled “History’s Splendid Splinter,” which was devoted to scholarly essays on the wooden toothpick’s “role in social history, patterns of forestry, and ...

Diddy — hip-hop impresario, designer and former Mr. Lopez — is doing his part to transform the lowly toothpick into something sophisticated. Often spotted on red carpets with a wooden sliver jutting ...

CHICAGO – A toothpick is a humble thing, ubiquitous but so commonplace as to be ignored. Not so for Wayne Kusy. For most of his 61 years, toothpicks – thousands of them, millions of them – have been ...