Did u know America spends more money on chewing gum than on elementary school textbooks?
An american mathematician once figured out that the energy Americans expend every day when chewing bubble gum would light a city of ten million people!
More than 1,000 varieties of gum are manufactured and sold in the United States.
100,000 tons of bubble gum are chewed every year.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records ,the largest bubble ever blown was 23 inches in diameter!
Richard Walker holds the record for the Chomp Title by chewing 135 sticks of bubble gum for 8 hours. The first person to win the 'Chomp Title' was Sue Jordan, who chewed eighty pieces of Doublemint gum for five hours and twelve minutes! Clyde Steward McGehee, of North Carolina, broke that record by chewing 105 sticks of Juicy Fruit for six hours and Richard Walker broke that record by chewing 135 sticks of gum for eight hours.
The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
The average person chews over 300 pieces 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.
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