Day 24 - @Vienna

After two days of visiting historic sites in the old town we decided to head out to Danube Island—created by dredged dirt from a flood protection project back in the 70’s.

Highlights from today:
-City skyline
-A pink pig ATM!?!
-Talented water boarders
-Creative river floating
-River-side beach bar
-Cribbage (Alex & Paul)
-Right Guard moments (if you know, you know!)
-5-mile walk
-St Francis Assisi Church
-Dinner @ Lolo and Lola’s Filipino restaurant

The topic of teeth brushing came up as we were wandering through old Vienna and we were wondering about the state of dental care during the early days of the Hapsburg Empire. That led to some AI research and here’s what we found:

Teeth brushing has been around way longer than your minty-fresh toothpaste tube suggests. Ancient Egyptians were scrubbing away with twigs and ground-up eggshells around 3000 BCE, which sounds more like a failed recipe than dental care. The Chinese upped the game in the 600s by strapping hog bristles to bamboo, basically inventing the first toothbrush. Fast-forward to 1780, when a Brit named William Addis thought, “Why not drill holes in a bone and stick bristles in it?”—and toothbrush mass production was born. But it wasn’t until nylon bristles hit the scene in the 1930s, and soldiers in WWII were ordered to brush daily, that the rest of us finally caught on.Read more