The first commercial chewing gum was sold in 1848 by John B. Curtis, who also made the gum. He called the gum "State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum."

Murphy beds have been attributed as the cause of people's deaths before. Most recently in 2005 when two women were trapped and suffocated to the death by their Murphy bed.

It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.

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