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Ancient Europeans chewed birch tar like gum
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Apparently, the human urge to mindlessly chew on pointless substances transcends millennia. Archaeologists routinely find wads of prehistoric birch bark tar with literal tooth marks in them. Our ancestors realized that boiling toxic-looking tree sludge produced a perfectly chewy, mint-less gum to casually chomp on while wandering the wilderness.
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