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• Super Bowl Sunday is the highest pizza sales day of the year. Domino’s Pizza alone sells more than 110 million pizza slices on that day, about 80% more than a normal Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday is followed by New Year’s Eve, Halloween, Thanksgiving Eve, and New Year’s Day. But even with all the pizzas sold on those days, pizza still takes second place in the takeout department for the over-50 crowd, edged out by chicken. • In 1958, two brothers from Kansas borrowed $600 from their mother to start up a pizza restaurant in a 600-square-foot building in Kansas. Frank and Dan Carney opened up the first Pizza Hut near Wichita State University, and just one year later, had their first franchise restaurant in neighboring Topeka. Within 10 years, there were 300 Pizza Huts across the nation. Today there are approximately 12,000 Huts in over 90 countries around the world. In America, this chain is the largest user of cheese, purchasing more than 3% of the country’s supply, an amount that requires 170,000 dairy cows to produce.

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PIZZA (continued): • Available pizza toppings in North America vary according to geographical area, and in some parts of the country, regional favorites are Cajun shrimp, oysters, crayfish, tuna, venison, duck, eggplant, and artichoke hearts. The majority of the population still favors meat toppings (62%), while the remaining 38% prefer vegetarian ingredients. International toppings include Japan’s favorite squid, eel, bacon, and potato pizza. In India, folks prefer pickled ginger, mutton, and tofu, while a fish pizza is the Russian’s choice, a combination of sardines, tuna, mackerel, herring, and salmon. In the Netherlands, if you order up a Double Dutch, you’ll receive double cheese, double onions, and double beef.

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Hollywood actors saw their careers destroyed over false allegations or when they protested having their political loyalties questioned.

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• On Oct. 24, 1958, mystery writer Raymond Chandler starts working on his last novel, "The Poodle Springs Story," but he would die before completing it. Chandler published only seven novels, among them his first • On Oct. 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso, novel, "The Big Sleep," in 1939 and one of the most influential artists of "The Long Goodbye" in 1953. the 20th century, is born in Spain. • On Oct. 21, 1967, some 100,000 Picasso's body of work comprises anti-war demonstrators march on the more than 50,000 paintings, draw- Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. ings, engravings, sculptures and ce- military. Violence erupted when the ramics produced over 80 years until protesters clashed with soldiers and his death in 1973 at age 91. U.S. marshals protecting the build-

• On Oct. 20, 1947, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee of the U.S. Congress opens its investigation into communist infiltration of the American movie industry. Many

• On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drives a truck filled with 2,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. Four months after the bombing, American forces left Lebanon without retaliating. © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

• Mozzarella cheese originated in Italy, produced from the milk of water buffalos. Traditional mozzarella comes from those buffalo in a very few countries, including Bulgaria and Italy. Because it is not aged like most cheeses, traditional mozzarella is eaten fresh within a few hours after it is produced. Most mozzarella is made from pasteurized cow’s milk due to the rarity of the water buffalos. • What about pizza’s caloric content? A pepperoni personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut is about 625 calories, while one slice of that company’s Supreme pan pizza is 440 calories.

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• Joni played gigs in local coffeehouses in Calgary, saving up money to fund her real desire – art school. She enrolled in Calgary’s Alberta College of Art and Design to pursue painting, but dropped out after a year. It was in a Toronto folk club that she met a Michigan folk singer, Chuck Mitchell. Within a week, the pair were married, followed by an immediate move to the United States, where they began playing music together. • The marriage didn’t last but her music did, and in 1968, when she was 25, Joni Mitchell recorded her debut album, produced by David Crosby. It was followed closely by her second album “Clouds,” which featured her famous composition “Both Sides Now” and earned Mitchell her first Grammy. She wrote and recorded “Big Yellow Taxi” in 1970, with its well-known line, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” One of the biggest hits for the group Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, “Woodstock,” was composed by Mitchell. • She began her move from folk songs to jazz and blues in 1974 with the album “Court and Sparks,” which is now her most successful album. Rolling Stone magazine ranks it as #111 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. • Joni Mitchell has received eight Grammy Awards, most recently in 2008. In 2002, she was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which described her as “one of the most important female recording artists of the rock era.” She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, and into the Canadian songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. • Today, Mitchell is retired with numerous health problems. She began smoking at age 9, and it has been her lifelong habit.

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It’s time to air the dirty laundry about dirty laundry! Here’s the dirt on everybody’s not-so-favorite chore. • The word “laundry” has is origins in the Latin word Lavanda, which translates “things to be washed.” We also get our word “lavatory” from the same root, which meant “a place to do washing.” • The average family does 8 to 10 loads of laundry weekly, about 50 lbs. worth. Each load contains about 16 items, with an average time for completion from start to finish of one hour and 27 minutes. • Where do people do their laundry these days? Back in 1992, just 17% of homes had a separate laundry room. Today that figure is nearing 60%. The dark and dreary basement laundry room is also becoming a thing of the past, as over 60% of new laundry rooms are being built on upper floors.

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• Considering the everincreasing cost of postage, you might be surprised to learn that the U.S. Postal Service was free until 1863.

• Those who study such things say that 20 percent of American men have spent at least one night in jail.

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• Any novelty seeker planning a trip to Japan ought to include a trip to the town of Susami, home to the world's deepest underwater postbox. A scuba diver who would like to send a unique message should head to the local dive shop and buy a special water-resistant postcard, then use an oil-based marker to write the message. On a dive off the town's coast, the diver can head down 30 feet to deposit the mail in a red postbox, which is checked every few days by a dive-shop employee. All the postcards are then taken to the local post office and sent on to the recipients.

• Milton Hershey, creator of the iconic Hershey Bar and founder of the Pennsylvania company town that bears his name, grew up in a Mennonite family, working on the family farm. He had no formal schooling past the fourth grade. He served as an apprentice to a candy maker, then started his own confectionery. It failed. His second attempt also was a failure. His third attempt in the candy business was such a success that he sold the company for a large profit in 1900. He immediately used the proceeds from that sale to come up with his own formula for milk chocolate and create the Hershey Company.

• The first hand-operated washing machine came along in the mid-1800s. It consisted of a revolving wooden drum turned by hand. It was later updated to include pegs and gears to push clothes through soapy water. The invention of the internal combustion engine and electric motor in the early 1900s revolutionized doing the laundry. In 1908, Chicago’s Hurley Company introduced a galvanized tub and wringer powered by an electric motor. Unfortunately, there was no on-off switch and there was a danger of the user’s hands getting caught in it. Washers became automatic in 1937 when the Bendix Corporation was issued the first patent that eliminated the dangerous wringer. By the 1940s, nearly 60% of American homes had an electric washing machine.

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ployees. In the late John relocated • Fabric softeners that1840s, prevent static clingthe and entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed make fabrics softer were first developed in the of his own lack of education, John sent his early 1900s. The early blends consisted of wachildren to the state’s finest schools. One of ter, soap, and olive, corn, or tallow oil. Those his proudest days occurred when son Charles early softeners have been replaced by chemiearned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s calCommercial compoundsCollege that coat the surface of the fabin Chicago. ric and remain on it to make it feel smoother •and With his son Charles managing the company, softer. If fabric softener is always used on John found time to are pursue philanthropic inhousehold items that meant to absorb liquid, terests. He co-founded both the First Nationsuch as towels and cleaning clothes, the layer al Bank and the First Congregational Church. of buildup will eventually prevent those items He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, from absorbing they actions will in fact repel liquid. where one of and his first – the replace-

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