• Salvo@aussie.zone
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      2 days ago

      We used to put sewing pins in cigarettes so the ash wouldn’t fall off.

      Burning the chrome was probably very toxic, but hey, they were cigarettes and we were also breathing in Tetraethyl Lead fumes and lead paint particles in the 1980s.

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        That reminds me of seeing this “neat trick” but with a bent paper clip instead of needle.

        It was printed in a children’s comic book

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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          I remember it as toothpicks. Not sure if it worked, though. I never saw the end result.