In other words, it should be no surprise that most prepaid cards purchased from a retailer, hanging next to a pack of gum, will enjoy a short life.

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To this day, I still recall my utter disgust in getting a pack of gum (with stale gum) that had both the annual checklist card and the card of National League Commissioner Warren Giles.

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E-textiles have been around for centuries (think metallic thread) but now that computers have become the size of a pack of gum, affordable and easily programmable, and a new 3D Printer comes on the market daily, fashion tech is starting to catch on and more and more widespread.

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William Wrigley started out selling baking powder, and he thought that including a free pack of chewing gum would help.

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They didn't really take hold until 1974, when a shopper in Toledo, Ohio swiped a pack of Juicy Fruit chewing gum across the first grocery store scanner.

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There's five sticks of gum in a pack.

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