The concept of gum is over 100 years old. It was first patented by a dentist from Ohio in 1869.

Gum was used in WWII as gifts to give and trade to people around the world. This helped spread its popularity.

Bubble gum is pink because it was the color of the first recipe that actually worked!

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest bubble ever blown was 23 inches in 1994.

Each company guards the particular ingredients of its gum very carefully, though gum usually contains powdered sugar, gum base, glucose syrup, coloring, and flavoring.

Natural gum comes from a tree called the Sapodilla, which was chewed by the Mayans in Central America.

Native American Indians chewed the gum of the Spruce tree.

The invention of gum came from the efforts to produce a new kind of rubber in the late 19th century.

Bubble gum wasn’t invented until 1928, and it was an accident!.

The first chewing gum was sold by traveling salesmen. They promoted it by telling customers that it would clean teeth and promote digestion.

The US consumes 7 times more chewing gum than the rest of the world.

Some men traded wives for gum when it first came to Africa.

Eskimos used to chew whale blubber as a form of gum.

Gum retailed for as much as one dollar a piece during the rubber shortages of WWII.

By Dorothy Edison