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unusual facts about gum


Pop'n'gum

Its first single, Radio Song, is a playable bonus song on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.


Amanda Shaw

Shaw has recorded two independently released albums, Little Black Dog (2001) and I'm Not a Bubble Gum Pop Princess (2004) -- the latter including traditional Cajun melodies as well as eclectic choices like The Clash's Should I Stay or Should I Go and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (changed to "Girlfriend").

An Gúm

Many other dictionaries came out of An Gúm, such as those by Niall Ó Dónaill (Irish-English Dictionary) and Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Banksia acanthopoda

Banksia acanthopoda grows in tall closed kwongan heath in lateritic soils, sometimes with a sparse overstorey of wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo) or Drummond's gum (E. drummondii).

Betsy Jochum

Chewing gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley decided, in 1942, to start a women's professional baseball league, concerned that the 1943 Major League Baseball season might be canceled because of World War II.

Boomi, New South Wales

The plains were once lightly forested with mainly gum, coolibah, box, wilga, belah, myall, Cypress pine and leopardwood trees.

Booze cruise

In an episode of The Big Bang Theory Sheldon tells a story where after a deep gum cleaning he got on what he thought was a bus but was actually a booze cruise to Mexico.

Braeside, Victoria

This industrial estate took its name from the gum trees and open area, including the Environmental Wetlands Area close by.

Branxholm, Tasmania

Close to the town is Mount Horror, known for excellent scenic views is surrounded by extensive pine and gum plantations.

C-ration

One sundries can containing the accessory packet: (Gum, toilet paper, a P-38 can opener, granulated salt, and a flat wooden spoon) and the cigarette packet: (one 9-pack of cigarettes and a book of matches).

Chewing gum ban in Singapore

Chewing gum was causing serious maintenance problems in high-rise public housing flats, with vandals disposing of spent gum in mailboxes, inside keyholes and even on elevator buttons.

Chick Zamick

The children often went by the nickname "Chick", in reference to the number of pieces in a pack of Chiclets brand chewing gum (10).

Chiclets

The product's name is derived from Nahuatl word tziktli, in English chicle, the substance from which chewing gum was traditionally made.

Chocolat, Menta, Mastik

Chocolat, Menta, Mastik (שוקולד מנטה מסטיק, translate: Chocolate, mint, gum) was an Israeli female musical trio, active in the 1970s, composed of Yardena Arazi, Ruthie Holzman and either Tami Azaria (1972-1973) or Leah Lupatin.

Cinema 16: British Short Films

The short films included are About a Girl, Boy and Bicycle, Dear Phone, Doodlebug, Eight, Gasman, Girl Chewing Gum, Home, Joyride, Inside Out, Je T'Aime John Wayne, The Sheep Thief, The Short & Curlies, Telling Lies, UK Images, and Who's My Favourite Girl?.

Colin Stanley Gum

Gum 12, a huge area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour.

Don Nottebart

When Lucy gets a hold of a bubble-gum card of Charlie Brown's (fictional) idol Joe Shlabotnik, he offers to trade dozens of cards, including Nottebart's, for Shlabotnik's, but she refuses.

Doodia aspera

In tall open forest in the Sydney region, it is an understory shrub in damp areas underneath such trees as Sydney blue gum (Eucalyptus saligna), mountain gum (E. deanei), river peppermint (E. elata) and forest red gum (E. tereticornis.

Galbanum

Galbanum is an aromatic gum resin, the product of certain umbelliferous Persian plant species, chiefly Ferula gummosa (synonym F. galbaniflua) and Ferula rubricaulis.

Gonipterus scutellatus

The egg parasite Anaphes nitens, a wasp which is native to Australia, has been introduced to other countries as a biological control agent to control the gum tree weevil.

Grady Howard

Howard held membership in the North Carolina Beekeepers' Association, handling gallberry and gum honey in several farms in Cedar Creek and Harnett County, North Carolina.

Grey Blackwell

Blackwell's caricature of LeBron James was featured on the packaging for "LeBron's Lightning Lemonade" flavor of Bubblicious bubble gum.

Gum base

Gum base is the non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble masticatory delivery system used to carry sweeteners, flavors and any other desired substances in chewing gum and bubble gum.

Gum industry

1848: John B. Curtis developed the first commercially available chewing gum

Hillgrove, New South Wales

Some rare Eucalyptus michaeliana (Hillgrove Gum) trees may be seen growing along the Long Point Road.

In the Realm of Fancy

With Ao Gum united with Chur Wun, Lei Xuan proceeds to abandon the material realm for that of the immortals, during his ascent and farewell to Ao Gum it is revealed that the beggar is Lei Xuan and that Lei Xuan is Tieguai Li, Iron-Crutch Li of the Eight Immortals.

James Anthony Wills

Additional portraits include: successful individuals such as golfer Ben Hogan, Indianapolis 500 Speedway owner Anton Hulman Jr., Detroit Tigers Baseball Club owner Walter Briggs, Jr., Philip Wrigley of Wrigley Gum Company, Clark Hungerford, railroad executive and Bessie Mae Pederson (wife of Roy Pederson) of Houston, Texas

Jay Hails

His songs are influenced by Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, and in his own words, "the guy who wrote that Juicy Fruit chewing gum jingle".

Juicy Fruit

Juicy Fruit was taken off of the civilian market temporarily during World War II because of ingredient shortages and the demand for the gum to be included in C-rations.

Leonard Rodway

Rodway has been honoured in the specific names of the fungi Calostoma rodwayi and Entoloma rodwayi, as well as the gum Eucalyptus rodwayi.

Listerine

In a January 6, 2005, decision, Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that an advertising campaign by Pfizer, claiming that the mouthwash Listerine is as effective as flossing in fighting tooth and gum decay, is false and misleading and poses a public health risk.

Maritime history of Somalia

In ancient times, the Kingdom of Punt, which is believed by several Egyptologists to have been situated in the area of modern-day Somalia, had a steady trade link with the Ancient Egyptians and exported precious natural resources such as myrrh, frankincense and gum.

Martha Greenblatt

In January 1962 she received a BSc (cum laude) in Chemistry from Brooklyn College and she chose to work for the Chiclets Chewing Gum Company in Long Island City as a chemist.

McDull, Prince de la Bun

The Pancakes, who composed the movie's theme song gum gum gum (Cantonese: 咁咁咁, literally "this, this, this"), was awarded the Best Original Film Song in the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Mobile-Tensaw River Delta

The delta is ecologically important and includes a wide variety of habitats, including Mesic flood plains, cypress-gum swamps, tidal brackish water marshes, bottomland forests and submersed grassbeds.

Narcotization

An example of this is used by Chuck Palahniuk in his book Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (US Title) where he describes a study done on gum disease and the benefits of oral hygiene.

Orion Confectionery

Products produced by Orion include biscuits, cookies, crackers, pies, gum, snacks, chocolate, and candy; and its most famous product is Choco Pie.

Patawalonga River

'Patawalonga', literally from the local Kaurna Indigenous language, is derived from 'Pattawilya + -ngga', the component parts being: Patta, which means a swamp gum tree (Eucalyptus ovata) and wilya meaning a branch while -ngga is a suffix used to indicate that the name is a location, patta-wilya-ngga the place of the branches of the swamp gum.

Percy Daggs III

He is also known for starring in television commercials for Hot Pockets and Orbit Gum.

Postage stamp gum

On Swiss stamps of the 1930s, Courvoisier used a gum-breaking machine that pressed a pattern of small squares into the gum, resulting in so-called grilled gum.

PS Success

It towed barges of sawn red gum, wool and other cargo along the Darling and Murray rivers, as well as running as a passenger boat from Swan Hill to Mildura during 1915-16.

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak

The music for "Akele Hain To Kya Gum Hai" is copied from the instrumental number "Return to the Alamo" by the band The Shadows.

Shooby Taylor

In the song "Walk & Chew Gum" by the band Optiganally Yours, there's a mentioning of Shooby Taylor in the last line of their scat-like bridge.

Stillwater, Auckland

Stillwater was also used as a secondary landing to transport logs, kauri gum and later fruit produce from orchards established on cleared land at Stillwater, Silverdale and Dairy Flat.

Tailspin Tommy

Stephen Slesinger Inc. published a series of 30 Tailspin Tommy Adventures in eight-page booklet form as a promotion with Big Thrill Chewing Gum.

Tapora

Due to the large number of kauri trees, FitzGerald leased the rights of this land to gum-diggers.

Walcha, New South Wales

Some of the rare or endangered plants that may be found growing in the district include: Chiloglottis anaticeps (bird orchid), Eucalyptus michaeliana, (Hillgrove spotted gum) and Philotheca myoporoides (Mountain Wax-flower), which are growing in the local national parks.

White Gum Valley, Western Australia

Several of the streets in the White Gum Valley are named for pioneering families in the area, such as Samson Street named after Sir Frederick Samson.


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