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Fast facts: The tangerine is named for Tangiers, a port in Morocco. The fruit was once referred to as "the kid-glove orange" because its skin slipped off as easily as a glove and had the feel of fine leather. Of all the major brewing nations, England remains the only one in which ale is the primary beer consumed. This is in contrast to lager, which is the world's overall dominant beer style. Of all the potatoes grown in the United States, only 8 percent are used to make potato chips. Special varieties referred to as "chipping potatoes" are grown for this purpose. One in every 11 boxes of cereal sold in the United States - and often a child's first solid food - is Cheerios. The Campbell Soup Company uses more than 44 billion stars each year in its canned Chicken & Stars Soup. In three years, Campbell's produces more tiny pasta stars than there are in the Milky Way. The desserts least harmful to the teeth are pies, plain cakes and doughnuts.

 

On this date: In 1815, the burned Library of Congress was reestablished with Thomas Jefferson's own 6,500 volumes. In 1894, the pneumatic hammer was patented by Charles King of Detroit. In 1927 the first commercial transatlantic radio telephone service began. In 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of a coalition cabinet; Hitler then established a government with National Socialist (Nazi) allies. In 1962, two members of the Flying Wallendas' high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit. In 1976, George Bush became the 11th director of the Central Intelligence Agency (until 1977).

 

Quotable... "Ikeja mortuary is filled; they have started to use other local government facilities. It's a disaster. We did not anticipate it would rise to this level." - Lagos, Nigeria Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu about blasts that killed hundreds of people in the country's capital city.