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Did You Know? Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna & Thomas Adams Invented Bubble Gum on Staten Island - This Way on Bay
The Good Old Days - The History of Gum: The deposed Mexican president General Antonio López de Santa Anna brought the habit of chewing chicle to the U.S. when he was living
Santa Anna and the Invention of Chewing Gum | There are certain people in history who wield so much influence during their lives that they keep showing up in seemingly unrelated events.
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TIL Thomas Adams (founder of the chewing gum industry) conceived the idea while working as a secretary to former Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna, who chewed a natural gum called
![TIL that a money raising attempt by former Mexican President and General Santa Anna (responsible for losing the Texas Revolution) led to the invention of chewing gum in the United States. : TIL that a money raising attempt by former Mexican President and General Santa Anna (responsible for losing the Texas Revolution) led to the invention of chewing gum in the United States. :](https://external-preview.redd.it/til-that-a-money-raising-attempt-by-former-mexican-v0-au4aHTw2rf25Efq5Nq3DKncxPssO3cofYIGD8Ze0VzU.jpg?auto=webp&s=ba47da663110145a8df8061c50c61918d46f52de)