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  "textContent": "This unusual set of dentures was made in the 1940s by a California miner named George Washington Hancock, who couldn't afford conventional dental care. He needed teeth, so he made them. Hancock fashioned the bases himself by heating celluloid toothbrush handles and pressing them into denture-shaped molds. — Read the rest \n\nThe post 1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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