Art comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some people like to make big sculptures and some people like the artist Steven Backman like to create a very small sculpture. Steven Backman is an incredibly talented artist who loves making things from toothpicks, he has made a 13 foot Golden Gate Bridge made from 30,000 toothpicks, a San Francisco cable car made of 4,000 toothpicks and a yacht made from 10,000 toothpicks! But unlike those, all the things you are about to see below are made from a single, solitary toothpick…
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![Meydan Grandstand Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-10.jpg?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1)
10 – Meydan Grandstand
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FACT: In 1972 the pocket toothpick holder (described as a great way to carry your toothpicks around with you!) made it into the top 20 gifts of the year!
![Pagoda Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-9.jpg?resize=600%2C432&ssl=1)
9 – Pagoda
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FACT: Steven Backman is not the only one with skills enough to make toothpick sculptures, a man named Joe King once used 110,000 toothpicks to build a model of the Eiffel Tower 23ft tall!
![Eiffel Tower Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-8.jpg?resize=600%2C443&ssl=1)
8 – Eiffel Tower
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FACT: The toothpick is considered such an essential that even the original Swiss Army knives had one included in their product.
![Burj Khalifa Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-7.jpg?resize=600%2C444&ssl=1)
7 – Burj Khalifa
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FACT: In the 1980’s cinnamon toothpicks became very trendy, people would make their own by soaking wooden toothpicks in a bottle of cinnamon oil extract and sell them for a profit!
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![Tower Bridge Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-6.jpg?resize=600%2C444&ssl=1)
6 – Tower Bridge
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FACT: Even in its very first day the toothpick factory in Maine made well over 20 million toothpicks, then kept those numbers up for years!
![Empire State Building Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-5.jpg?resize=600%2C455&ssl=1)
5 – Empire State Building
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FACT: A teacher named Charles Forster asked his students to eat at a local restaurant and then loudly ask for a toothpick after finishing their meals. The idea was they wouldn’t have any generating a market for the disposable toothpick that Forster had invented!
![Titanic Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-4.jpg?resize=600%2C456&ssl=1)
4 – Titanic
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FACT: Agathocles, a tyrant of Syracuse, died in 289 B.C. when his toothpick was soaked it in poison by an enemy!
![Golden Gate Bridge Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-3.jpg?resize=600%2C456&ssl=1)
3 – Golden Gate Bridge
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FACT: The American state of Maine is the biggest toothpick producer in the World and is estimated to produce 90% of the Worlds toothpicks!
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![Cinderella Castle Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-2.jpg?resize=600%2C456&ssl=1)
2 – Cinderella Castle
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FACT: In the 17th Century toothpicks were only used by the upper classes were cherished enough to be made from gold, silver or ivory!
![White House Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman](https://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Top-10-Amazing-Miniature-Toothpick-Sculptures-1.jpg?resize=600%2C456&ssl=1)
1 – White House
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FACT: Skulls believed to belong to Neanderthals show signs of having their teeth picked clean by some sort of tool! We are basically talking caveman toothpicks!