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SciShow Tangents

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What Was in the First Half?

The first UPC code was printed on a Riggly's Juicy Fruit Chewing Gum in 1971. They weren't super popular originally, but as larger stores adopted them, they became much more popular. "We needed the great people at the universal product code place," Schulz says.

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