• The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
• The average person chews over 300 sticks of gum each year!
• Most chewing gum is purchased between Halloween and Christmas.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Humans are the only animals on earth that chew gum.
• The energy Americans expend every day when chewing bubble gum would light a city of ten million people for a day!
• Many dentists now widely recommend chewing sugar free gum to their patients.
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ReplyDeleteI collected baseball cards as a youngster. Each card packet of five included one flat piece of rectangular, nearly tasteless bubble gum. It was lousy for bubbles. It did however, make the cards smell good and made them seem special.
I had a big box of cards. Many of them, if in the proper condition, would be worth a nice sum of money today. I had players like Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Al Kaline, etc. I even had a couple old timers but I can't remember who.
I threw these all away in a big bunch one day. Did I put my fortune in the trash? No, there was no fortune there. I kept the cards in a shoebox. I played with them - me and my pals would flip them in a fun game of card baseball. If you were good you could flip them so they'd avoid landing on any of the nine cards laying on the ground that represented your pal's team. If you flipped it really well it went sailing in a spin over everything and banged into the wall for a dramatic home run!
We used the cards of the best players of course. The long term result? All the best cards were bent, frayed, dog-eared, and or faded. When I tossed them in the garbage they were worth less than the original purchase price of about a penny apiece.
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I can still flip cards pretty good.
I have two cards in pristine condition still - Roberto Clemente and George Brett. Worth about $30 total.
The best gum, in my opinion, for blowing bubbles was "Bazooka Joe."
Oh, yeah, spit bubbles, like hugs, are free, though they may cost you if you blow them during a job interview.
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