How many people have died from toothpicks?

How many people have died from toothpicks?

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Since nineteen-hundred over seventeen-thousand people have died from toothpicks. Actually more people die from toothpicks every year than lightening. And how this happens is that they ingest the toothpick. A toothpick is wood and it cannot be digested, and this causes a sepsis in the blood. One of the most famous incidents is the writer Sherwood Anderson, who was at a cocktail party eating some hors d'ourves, some small frankfurters with a toothpick in it, and during this course he not only swallowed the small hotdog but the toothpick as well. He died five days later from a form of sepsis, from the toothpick.