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Thursday trivia

Mike Donaldson

What do the following things have in common: tires, paint, adhesives, cereals, chewing gum, hair spray, mouthwash, shampoo, toothpaste, and twinkies?

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Alex Y

Have to think about that one. That is quite a cornucopia of products.

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Dale Lenz

Come from trees?

Dale Lenz

Thanks for the question Mike.

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Mike Donaldson

Dale,

Yup. They all have at least one ingredient derived from trees.

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I was close

Alex Y

with my guess of corn. Here is an amazing (a-maize-ing?) list of items from corn, which includes most of the items on your list (all if you allow "cosmetics" to include some of the specific items from your list, "coatings" to include paint, and figure that Twinkies are almost certainly sweetened with corn syrup),

http://www.ontariocorn.org/classroom/products.html

Nice trivia. Thanks.

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