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Today’s per capita consumption of chewing gum stands at 175 sticks per year. So, as if you needed any further confirmation, the chewing gum barometer suggests that we once again live in troubled times.
One of the inventors, of modern chewing gum, was William Wrigley. Today almost 35% of chewing gum is manufactured by Wrigley Company. The basic process of manufacturing chewing gum has changed little, since manufacture began in late 19th century. It’s true that chewing gum has been around in many forms for many years.
More than 100,000 tons of chewing gum being consumed every year. Every year over 374 trillion sticks of chewing gum are made. In the next 5 years, over 1 million metric tones of chewing gum will be produced.
World Record Chewing The current record is 250 pieces chewed at one time, and was a record set by a Hollywood, CA, man named Lester.
Chewing gum is known to be a source of DNA used in forensic investigations. Herein, we have presented the DNA yields from chewing gum in a systematic study of five DNA extraction methods.
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A good rule would be to stick with sugar-free gum and don’t have more than one or two pieces a day. And when you’re done with it, don’t swallow it.
300 sticks
The average American chews around 300 sticks of gum in one year.
SAPPORO – Around 90 elementary school students and their parents set a Guinness world record in Sapporo on Saturday by making the world’s largest piece of chewing gum. The 1.1-meter-long, 30-cm-wide blueberry-flavored piece measured around 15 times the size of an ordinary stick of gum.
A dark-haired woman named Lola The analysis revealed that the person who chewed the 2-centimeter piece of gum was a woman with dark skin, dark hair, and blue eyes. The study authors named the woman Lola.
Britney Spears’ used chewing gum was put up for an auction in 2004. The chewing gum was found at a music concert and was believed to be chewed by Britney Spears as she has been seen chewing gums in public. The gum was sold for 14,000 USD on eBay. William Shatner sold his kidney stone on GoldenPalace.com.
