Gum Painter
Forever Blowing Bubbles
Ben Wilson is an English artists who turns discarded chewing gum into art. Ben transforms the gum, which is stuck to pavements, by adding a lick of paint! He has created over 10,000 tiny artworks. As he is painting art onto litter, it isn’t technically against the law.
Bubblegum was invented in 1928 by Walter Deimer who worked at a chewing gum factory – as an accountant!
No Gum Allowed
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Y M M U Facts
Bubblegum Alley There is a place in California called Bubblegum Alley – it has gum stuck there from passers by and now has millions of pieces of chewed-up gum on the walls.
Selling chewing gum is banned in Singapore. You can only get chewing gum from the dentist or doctor in Singapore as it needs to be prescribed.
Oldest Gum Chewing gum is a habit that humans have had for a long time. A 5,000-year-old bit of chewed gum – made from birch sap – was found in Finland, with toothmarks still visible.
Keep Chewing! Freaky Flavours There are some very odd flavours of gum – including meatball, beef, turkey (with cranberry sauce flavour gum), bacon and even something called ‘man smell’! 2
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Around 100,000 tonnes of gum is chewed each year – that’s as that weighs around the same as 25,000 Indian
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