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It's interesting to know gum
This document lists 10 facts about chewing gum, including that chewing gum is banned in Singapore, kids in North America spend $500 million per year on bubble gum, the first bubble gum was pink because that was the only color left, and 100,000 tons of bubble gum is chewed worldwide each year.
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It's interesting to know gum
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- 2. 10 facts aboutgum 1st • Chewing gum is banned in Singapore.
- 3. 10 facts aboutgum 2nd • Kids in North America spend approximately half a billion dollars on bubble gum every year.
- 4. 10 facts aboutgum 3rd • Sixty to 70 percent of bubble gum is sugar.
- 5. 10 facts aboutgum 4th • Scientists found a 9,000-year- old wad of chewing gum in Sweden.
- 6. 10 facts aboutgum 5th • The color of the first successful bubble gum was pink, because it was the only color that was left with the inventor.
- 7. 10 facts aboutgum 6th • The first bubble gum ever marketed was done so under the name “Blibber-Blubber”.
- 8. 10 facts aboutgum 7th • Humans are the only animals on earth that chew gum. If you give a monkey a piece he will chew it for a couple of minutes, then he will take it out and stick it to his hair.
- 9. 10 facts aboutgum 8th • Turkey is the country with the most gum companies; the United States is second.
- 10. 10 facts aboutgum 9th • By the 1940s, bubble gum had become so popular that it was included in the ration kits given to U.S. soldiers.
- 11. 10 facts aboutgum 10th • 100,000 tons of bubble gum is chewed every year all around the world.