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TIL Most Modern Chewing Gums, are made from polyethylene and polyvinyl acetate. Plastic Polymers that are commonly used to create Grocery Bags, & Plastic Bottles. These ingredients are considered Trade Secrets & are generally listed in the Ingredients under the description 'Gum Base.'

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6E4dY TIL The Romans built a lighthouse in Spain in the 1st century AD called "The Tower of Hercules." It is still intact and in use today, almost 2,000 years later.
e0KL5 TIL of the 1804 Haiti massacre that was carried out against the remaining white population in Haiti by Haitian soldiers. Squads moved from house to house, torturing and killing entire families. These events polarized Southern U.S. public opinion on the question of the abolition of slavery.
Dj6g TIL Logitech is called Logicool in Japan.
nA9B TIL that Thomas Jefferson impregnated one of his slaves, and then enslaved his child. (And quite possibly five more)
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