Today is National Popcorn Day
Fun Facts about your favorite popcorn snack. 
- Popcorn is said to raise serotonin and make you happy; run now to the microwave and pop yourself some joy!
- Compared to most snack foods, popcorn is low in calories. Air-popped popcorn has only 31 calories per cup. Oil-popped is only 55 per cup.
- Popcorn can pop up to 3 ft in the air.
- Most U.S. popcorn is grown in the Midwest, primarily in Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri.
- Americans consume 17 billion quarts of popped popcorn a year- more than any other country in the world.
- Unpopped kernels are called "old maids"

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