National Fried Chicken Day: July 6
Number of times all the KFC chickens consumed would circle the equator if they were laid end to end: 11
Percent of ice-cream novelties—bars, sandwiches and the like—that are eaten by adults: 50
Percent of people who get a headache when they eat ice cream fast: 27
Percent of ice-cream-headache sufferers who recover in fewer than 10 seconds: 59
Percent of sales at Baskin-Robbins, with 31 ice-cream flavors, that are plain vanilla: 25
Period when Berry Hall, a diner at the Cambridge Hotel in New York, dubbed apple pie with ice cream “pie à la mode”: mid 1890s
Year Bristol, Rhode Island, held its first Fourth of July celebration, which is the oldest, continuous Independence Day celebration in the U.S.: 1785
Number of hot dogs Americans consume on the Fourth of July, one for every other person: 150 million
Year Texan Neil Fletcher introduced corn dogs, at the Texas State Fair: 1942
Percent of the U.S. corn crop that humans eat as corn. (The rest is processed or consumed by cows): 10
Year Little League Baseball started, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania: 1939
Year of the first Little League World Series, with 11 teams from Pennsylvania and one from New Jersey: 1947
Sources: Associatedcontent.com, Makeicecream.com, foodsci.voguelph.ca, Foodreference.com, Wikipedia.org, Whatscookingamerica.net, Post-gazette.com, Trivia-library.com
