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15 Things That Betty White Is Older Than

6. Bubble Gum

Bibelot Magazine

In 1928, Walter E. Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. After consulting with the then 6-year-old Betty White, he created what we now call “bubble gum.” Although at the time it was known as “Fleer’s Pink Flavored Bubble Making Gum.” Source: TLC

7. Canned Beer

Wikipedia

The first canned beer appeared on the market some time in the mid-30s, well after Betty White’s birth in 1922. But by the mid-50s, canned beverages were the thing to be seen drinking out of. At the canned beverage symposium of 1961, BIG CAN even went as far as to hire Betty White to pop out of a novelty can in order to further burgeoning interest.

8. Ballpoint Pens

Wall Street Journal

László Bíró may think he gained the upper hand on Betty White by filing a patent for the ballpoint pen in 1941, she was but a young woman at the time. But the scoreboard of history has shown us that no one remembers what ballpoint pens once did, were they used to sew? Did ancient humans keep small animals in the ballpoint pens? The answer is lost to history.

9. LSD

Metro

LSD was first synthesized on November 16, 1938, by Albert Hoffman, pretty Groooooovy maaaaan. In his autobiography “Keep On Truckin’,” Hoffman describes his first “trip” as being a kaleidoscopic rainbow of the face of Betty White.

10. Helicopters

The earliest references to vertical flight have existed since 400 BC when Chinese children began playing with bamboo flying sticks, but it wasn’t until 1924 that the first world helicopter record was set for inventing the most helicopters in under 24 hours. Who set that record? That’s right, a two-year-old Betty White.