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By Lydia Patrick
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A woman was flossing her teeth when she stumbled across something entirely unexpected—a tiny little eight.
The Reddit user, posting as u/SinnexCryllic, shared the find in the subreddit Mildly Interesting, where the post quickly gained 29,000 upvotes as curious sleuths tried to work out what it could be.
"I was just flossing as I do every night with my Oral B floss—I didn't notice at all that over time that the lettering was wearing off. As I was lowering the floss to move onto another section, I saw this tiny bit of white on it with a hole through it, which food scraps don't tend to do. I picked it off the string and lo and behold, a teeny tiny eight," the Redditor told Newsweek.
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flossed a tiny 8 out of my teeth last night
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They explained that after taking a picture, they taped the little number down as a curiosity. It wasn't until the next day at work that they decided to post it online, thinking it was "truly mildly interesting."
Once uploaded, the thread quickly filled with jokes and speculation. Commenters made puns, Twin Peaks references, and even questioned whether the Redditor was a robot.
Some self-styled detectives pushed them to search around their home, which led to the surprising discovery that their freezer wasn't functioning properly.
Speculation also swirled about what the mysterious eight could be. Some thought it came from a sunscreen bottle's degraded adhesive. However, the poster said they didn't own sunscreen with such labels.
Eventually, after checking their floss container, they realized much of its labeling had worn away. A quick Google search revealed that the boxes were originally printed with "48.1 yds" of floss. The tiny eight had somehow peeled away intact, ended up on the string, and then made its way into their teeth.
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"The only question I have left is where the rest of the numbers went," they joked.
Other Redditors couldn't resist chiming in with wordplay.
"If you floss again and find a 7 you may wanna look into telling your family you love them," said one user.
"Because soon enough you'll find a 6, and a 5," another added.
"I had to scroll thru way too many puns to get the answer," admitted one viewer.
"A cr8zy amount of gr8 puns, maybe?" joked the OP.
"Must've been something you... no I shan't say it," another user teased.
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