There were no breath mints before Christ.

Jun 18, 2018

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…ht also have better oral hygiene, making kissing a more pleasing activity for some than for others. One argument against this speculation, though, is that hunter-gatherers, who eat very few carbohydrates, may have fewer dental cavities than bread-eating Europeans, yet most hunter-gatherers have not evolved romantic kissing.

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There were no breath mints before Christ. Who knows, maybe they chewed on mint leaves before getting it on?

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