Decades of Gum Cleaned Off Seattle Wall
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A penny is stuck to layers of gum at Pike Place Market in Seattle. Tourists and locals have been sticking their used chewing gum to the wall near the market for 20 years, leaving an estimated 1 million pieces in a kaleidoscope of colors, some stretched and pinched into messages, hearts and other designs. On Tuesday, cleaners began melting it all off.