- It was invented in 1928, by Walter E. Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, while he was experimenting with new recipes for chewing gum.
- The first bubble gum was Pink, because it was the only food colouring Diemer had available.
- The first bubble gum ever marketed was marketed under the name 'Blibber-Blubber'.
- Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California in 1996 holds the Guinness World Record for largest bubblegum bubble, with a bubble measuring 23 inches.
- You can make your own at home Using corn Syrup, powdered sugar, Gum base (not easy to get, but apparently not impossible), flavouring and colouring. If you want to give it a go, the recipe is here: http://ingoodcents.com/2012/03/sundays-at-home-homemade-bubble-gum-recipe.html.
- It is possible to blow a bubble gum bubble inside another bubble gum bubble. Tips on how to do it are here: http://www.wikihow.com/Blow-Bubblegum-Bubbles-Within-Bubblegum-Bubbles.
- Got some in your hair? Rub Peanut butter on it. The peanut butter contains oil which might just soften the gum enough to pull it off. You can also chew peanut butter along with your gum to help blow larger bubbles.
- A piece of bubble gum contains about 20 calories.
- 100,000 tons of bubble gum is chewed every year all around the world, but not in Singapore, where it is banned. The average American chews around 300 sticks of gum in one year.
- If you swallow bubble gum, it doesn't, as some people believe, get stuck in your intestines. It just passes through like anything else indigestible!
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