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Fast facts: Once an orange is squeezed or cut, the vitamin C dissipates quickly; after only eight hours at room temperature or a scant 24 hours in the refrigerator, there is a 20 percent vitamin C loss. One of the top-selling Girl Scout cookies, Samoas, uses caramel made the old-fashioned way. It's cooked at 230 degrees in copper kettles. In ancient China and certain parts of India, mouse flesh was once considered a great delicacy. Only men were allowed to eat at the first self-service restaurant, the Exchange Buffet, opened in New York in 1885. Customers ate standing up. In ancient Egypt, onions were an object of worship. The onion symbolized eternity to the Egyptians, who buried onions along with their Pharaohs.

 

On this date: In 1793, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France and wife of King Louis XVI, was guillotined for treason. In 1829, the Tremont Hotel opened in Boston. Heralded as the first modern hotel in America, each of the Tremont's luxurious 170 rooms went for $2 a day. The price included four meals. In 1846, in Boston's General Hospital, the painkiller, ether, was used for the first time. William Horton of Charleston, Massachusetts invented the drug. 1859 - United States anti-slavery activist John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and seized the armory to provide for his militia. Brown was captured and later hanged. In 1916, the first birth control clinic in the United States was opened by Margaret Sanger in Brooklyn, New York.

 

Quotable... "It is very important that India and Pakistan stand down during activities in Afghanistan or, for that matter, forever." -President George W. Bush on yesterday's strikes in Kashmir, Pakistan.