Wrigley fun facts

Wrigley fun facts

American chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jnr.

1.     The largest piece of gum produced was the equivalent of 10,000 pieces of gum, it was presented to baseball great Willie Mays from 1974.
2.     To grow all the mint Wrigley needs for its mint flavored gums would take 53 square miles of farmland – about 30,550 football fields!
3.     Wrigley's chewing gum is enjoyed from more than 150 countries throughout the world.
4.     The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company grows enough mint for the Spearmint gum to fill about 16,300 football fields from just one year and all of it is grown on U.S. farms.
5.     If each stick produced annually at this one plant were laid end to end, the gum would stretch around the world 19 times.

1.     Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit and Spearmint gums are more than 100 years old. Your grandparents probably chewed these when they were kids!
2.     The first commercial chewing gum, State of Maine Spruce Gum was introduced from 1850.
3.     William F. Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patented chewing gum from 1869.
4.     William Wrigley Jr entered the market from 1891 using the Lotta and Vassar brands.
5.     Wrigley’s Spearmint and Juicy Fruit followed from 1893.
6.     William Wrigley Jr, from the early 1900s, was one of the first to promote the sale of branded goods through advertising. Spearmint quickly became a best seller.
7.     ORBIT was invented as a special wartime brand and was supplied to the Armed Forces, since it was recognized that gum eases tension, promotes alertness and improves morale.

1.     People have chewed on natural materials for hundreds of years, including thickened resin and latex from certain trees, sweet grasses, leaves, grains and waxes.
2.     The use of spruce continued until the 1850s when paraffin wax became the new popular base for chewing gum.
3.     Cinnamon, spearmint and peppermint are among the most popular flavors of chewing gum today.

1.     In A.D. 50, Ancient Greeks were believed to chew mastic, tree resin taken from bark of the Mastic tree. Grecian women favored chewing this to clean their teeth and sweeten their breath!
2.     An Indian civilization that inhabited Central America enjoyed chewing chicle. This is a natural gum that comes from the latex of the Sapodilla tree and became the main ingredient from chewing gum.
3.     American Indians used to quench their thirsts by chewing the gum-like resin that forms on spruce trees when the bark is cut. Spruce became the first commercial chewing gum, being sold and traded from lumps.
4.     During WW2, US military personnel spread the popularity of chewing gum by trading it and giving it as gifts to people from Europe, Africa, Asia and around the world.
5.     The country using the largest number of chewing gum manufacturers is Turkey, using more then 60 companies manufacturing chewing gum!
6.     The head of the Philadelphia Chewing Gum Company (makers of Swell Bubble Gum), Edward L. Fenimore, has been said to have blown a bubble within a bubble within a bubble (a triple whammy).
7.     Humans are the only animals on earth that chew gum.
8.     Ancient Greeks chewed gum thousands of years ago.
9.     The ages of 12 to 24 chew more gum than any other age group.
10.     A study by specialists of a sociological service of the Youth Press agency, questioned 1000 kids from ten Russian cities and found that about two thirds of them had collections and that 22% of them collected chewing gum wrappers and labels.

Why is bubble gum pink? The color of the first successful bubble gum was pink because it was the only color the inventor had left. The color "stuck" and today bubble gum is still predominantly pink.

1.     Can you really remove gum from your hair using peanut butter? It has been proven that if you knead a small amount of peanut butter between your fingers and the gum, the gum will disperse enough so you can remove it.
2.     Detectives have been known to identify criminals by comparing the suspect's chewed gum to their dental records.
3.     Some people use gum to help break bad habits such as smoking and/or overeating. Studies have been done showing that chewing on gum relaxes muscles and helps relieve stress and tension from people.
4.     Because of gravity, you must measure bubble gum bubbles by their width, not their height.
5.     Japanese chemists have invented 'Mood Gum'. Like the Mood Rings popular from America, Mood Gum changes color when you're happy, sad, angry, etc.
6.     Chewing bubble gum is said to keep you from crying.
7.     Swallowed bubble gum will not get stuck from your intestines, but it will pass through your system, because gum base can not be digested.