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This video follows a majestic birch log as it goes through the process of being made into millions of itty bitty toothpicks.
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That's cool, but I still don't understand how the toothpicks get pointy. Seems like this system would generate rectangular prisms, not pointed toothpicks.
Something to do with the tumbling polishing process I should think. I can see how that would make them round, but apparently that sharpens them too.
Either that or little elves take each one and put it on an itty bitty lathe.