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The Founding of a Chewing Gum Empire: Wrigley and His Freebies (2017x81)

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→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut A Lesson in Failure: The Rise of the Mars Candy Company https://youtu.be/WJJ4ORIGFXA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan What Napoleon had to do with the Invention of Margarine https://youtu.be/uAuz4CJdg_A?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan In this video: Gum is everywhere. It could be in someone’s pocket, in a woman’s purse, underneath a classroom’s desk or lining the checkout lines at the local grocery store. Or it could be in a person’s mouth- teeth chomping away on a stick that rapidly loses its flavor. Gum is one of the most ubiquitous confectioneries in our culture, yet few know its origins. So who invented gum and how did it become popular? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/10/chewing-gums-history/ Sources: http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/chew-on-this-the-history-of-gum http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-chewing-gum-61020195/?no-ist https://books.google.com/books?id=C-mb5wUcFVEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ChicleThe+Chewing+Gum+of+the+Americas,+From+the+Ancient+Maya+to+William+Wrigley&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIg_-1jsnPAhUKkh4KHWQ0C4sQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=ChicleThe%20Chewing%20Gum%20of%20the%20Americas%2C%20From%20the%20Ancient%20Maya%20to%20William%20Wrigley&f=false http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/10/scouring-soap-chewing-gum-william-wrigley-jr-freebies/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600 https://www.britannica.com/topic/chicle http://www.history.com/topics/aztecs http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13325a.htm http://www.chewinggumfacts.com/chewing-gum-facts/john-b-curtis/