Toothpicks are among the most straightforward of everyday items, but even they have functions hiding in plain sight.

Diamond flat toothpicks should be available at Walmart and most grocery stores. You can also order them on Amazon. DEAR SUN SPOTS: I want to send a big thank you to the kind gentleman who gave me ...

MARYSVILLE — These days, Michel Combis needs his reading glasses to follow his passion, crafting miniature houses from toothpicks.

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 ...

Flat toothpicks are simply stamped out of the sheets, while round toothpicks are first cut into oversized blanks, and then fed into a milling machine called a "rounder," which grinds them down ...

* Remove the loose screws and insert one or two flat toothpicks, coated with glue, into the hole. Let the glue dry, break off the toothpicks flush with the wood and retighten the screws.

McKINNEY, Texas A box of toothpicks resulted in an unusual incident at a McKinney middle school. We brought just normal toothpicks, and we were supposed to bring flat toothpicks, said 14-year-old ...

She had. Children began drifting into the kitchen, drawn by the perfume of roasting chicken. Their mother directed the movement of various side dishes to the table. It was time to eat, but where ...