HAPPY TEETH

Our niece from France is visiting our area to attend a special wedding tomorrow. This is not just any niece.  When she was a baby she started to cry during a meeting in Calcutta, which interrupted Mother Teresa.  This niece also distracted border guards and probably saved her parents life.  More on that later.  

Anyway, our niece enjoys American chewing gum and toothpaste, so we put together a little gift bag for her return trip.

Since she will be reading this blog during her layover in London we thought she would enjoy some important facts about gum and toothpaste... 

The annual sales of chewing gum is over $2 billion, and 1.74 trillion pieces are chewed every year!  This much gum weighs 100,000 tons. 

The total "chew" time for gum each year (assuming each piece of gum is chewed for 30 minutes) equals 187 billion hours.   I guess it is important for everyone to learn how to chew while they are working.  

And one last important piece of information.....There is actually a piece of chewing gum in a museum that is over 9000 years old.  

Oh, about that toothpaste.

Before the advent of American toothpaste, people used dry, rough things to clean their teeth such as pumice and crushed egg shell. They also used twigs and their fingers to brush!

Toothpaste also helps you get rid of that ugly zit on your face. Dab some toothpaste on your pimple at night and watch it disappear in the morning.

A few hundred years ago, people didn’t know about the importance of brushing. So they developed black rotten teeth as a result of having too much sugar. This is what happened with Queen Elizabeth.

Toothpaste contains seaweed that gives it consistency while being squeezed on to the brush.

Toothpaste can also stick posters to your wall without any damage.  Believe it or not, this works both in America and France. 

To view a related posting about our niece, please click HERE.