1. Kids in North America spend approximately half a billion dollars on chewing gum every year.
2.The largest piece of gum ever was equivalent to 10,000 pieces of chewing gum!
3. 100,000 tons of bubble gum is chewed every year all around the world.
4. Chewing bubble gum is said to keep one from crying, as it reduces stress and helps in concentration.
5. Sixty to 70 percent of bubble gum is sugar.
6. One of the most famous, but false facts, is that swallowed gum will remain in your gastrointestinal tract for seven years. It is not so. Swallowed bubble gum will not get stuck to your intestines, but will pass through your system, because, gum base cannot be digested, as it has fiber that is indigestible.
7. Scientists found a 9,000-year- old wad of chewing gum in Sweden.
8. The average American chews around 300 sticks of gum in one year.
9. The head of the Philadelphia Chewing Gum Company (who happens to be the makers of Swell Bubble Gum), Edward L. Fenimore, has been said to have blown a bubble within a bubble within a bubble, that is, a triple whammy.
10. In Africa, it was said that various tribes accepted large quantities of bubble gum in lieu of sheep and oxen, as payment for a wife.
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