Busting Popular Myths That You Probably Thought Were Facts

Gum Doesn’t Take Seven Years to Digest

This is probably something that a parent told their kid so they wouldn’t keep swallowing the gum, and then it just stuck (haha). Gum will pass through you at the same rate that everything else does.

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