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Bread was once used as an Eraser

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These days, few sights seem as innocuous as a freshly sharpened pencil poking from a child’s “Frozen” backpack, pink wedge of eraser crowning its tip. Yet that handy little erasing appendage only became standard over the last century or so.

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