Did you know the oldest pieces of chewing gum ever found are roughly 9,000 to 10,500-year-old lumps of birch bark tar discovered in Scandinavia and Estonia ? (Discovered in Huseby-Klev on the west coast of Sweden and sites in Estonia. From the Mesolithic/Stone Age period. The material is birch bark tar containing preserved human teeth marks and trapped saliva. Scientists successfully sequenced ancient human DNA and full genomes from the saliva embedded in the tar. Researchers determined that one piece was chewed by a Stone Age teenage girl who had brown eyes and brown hair. Prehistoric humans likely chewed the sticky birch tar to soften it for use as tool adhesive or for its natural antiseptic properties.)

Did you know the northern red cardinal is the official state bird for seven U.S. states ? (Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia )

Did you know the oldest continuously inhabited homes in the USA are the multi-story adobe dwellings at Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, built between 1000 and 1450 A.D and if looking for the oldest European-style colonial wooden home still standing, it is the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, built in 1637 ?

Did you know the de Gannes-Cosby House in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, built in 1708, is widely recognized as the oldest wooden residence and one of the oldest private homes still standing and used in Canada ?

Did you know the Asteraceae family, which includes the daisy, sunflower, and dandelion, is the largest and most prolific family of flowering plants on Earth ? (This floral family contains over 32,000 known species across roughly 1,900 genera. They grow on every continent except Antarctica and make up about 10% of all flowering plant species.)