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Where did that come from? Ever wonder how some of your favorite foods came to be? Tidbits takes a look at some fun food facts.• According to legend, a Jewish baker in 1683 baked the

first bagel. This stirrup-shaped yeast dough was made to honor Jan Sobieski, a renowned horseman and the King of Poland, for saving the people of Austria from Turkish in-vaders. The baker named the hard roll beugel, the Austri-an word for stirrup. The roll soon became a hit throughout Eastern Europe, and over time its shape and name evolved into the modern-day bagel.

• What would the bagel be without cream cheese? In 1872, William Lawrence of Chester, N.Y., an American cheese maker, was experimenting with a recipe for Neufchâtel, a soft French cheese. He didn’t get it quite right, but what was produced was a much softer, silkier cheese. The cheese maker realized that this new cheese was better suited as a spreadable cheese designed to be consumed fresh. It didn’t need to be molded and aged in the Neuf-châtel style. He wrapped it in foil, and it was trademarked as Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese in 1880.

• Have you had your Wheaties today? In the 1920s, a Min-neapolis health-spa owner made homemade bran gruel to feed his clients. The mixture helped keep them regular and helped them lose weight. One day, he dropped some on the stove, and it hardened into a crust. After tasting it, he liked it better than what was cooking in the pot. He made a sample batch to show a friend at the Washburn Crosby Company, which later became the General Mills Company. The original mixture was too crumbly, so they came up with a better flake using wheat. Jane Bausman, the wife of a company executive, thought up the name Wheaties.

• Don’t skip your Wheaties! A study of 19,000 Americans found that people who skipped breakfast are more likely to gain weight because they tend to overcompensate for the loss of key nutrients at breakfast by eating more fat-

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• The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old, but it was in 1906 that the first “bubble gum” was invented by Frank Fleer. His first batch produced a gum so sticky that if it got on your skin the only way to get it off was with vigorous scrubbing and turpentine. His recipe was finally perfected 22 years later by Walter Diemer in 1928. The 23-year-old Diemer was an accountant for Fleer Chewing Gum Company who experimented with new gum recipes in his spare time. His first commercial batch of Dubble Bubble Gum just happened to be pink because that was the only food coloring on the shelf that day. Fleer’s gum became the most popular penny candy on the market.

• In 1912, a Cleveland chocolate candy maker named Clar-ence Crane wanted to make a hard mint that wouldn’t melt in the summer heat to boost summertime sales. While at the pharmacy buying bottled flavoring, he no-ticed the druggist using a hand operated pill-making ma-chine that produced flat, round pills. He contracted with the pharmacy to press the mints into shape. The machin-ery malfunctioned and stamped the candy with a hole in the middle. After looking at the shape, it reminded him of a life preserver so he called them Lifesavers.

• Did you know ketchup didn’t always contain tomatoes? The Chinese invented it in the 1600s, and this mixture had no tomatoes but a lot of pickled fish and spices. In the early 1700s, British explorers encountered the sauce in Malaysia. By 1740, it was a British staple and was then renamed ketchup. Tomatoes became an ingredient in the late 1700s when New England colonists added them to the mixture, and modern-day ketchup was born. Toma-toes may have been added sooner, but they were once thought to be poisonous. Henry J. Heinz introduced bot-tled ketchup in 1875, and by the 1980s, Heinz Ketchup was in one of every two American households.

• In 1905 in San Francisco, an 11-year-old boy named Frank Epperson was mixing powdered flavoring in a glass of soda and water. He accidentally left the glass with the stirring stick in it on his back porch overnight. He found it frozen the next morning. This gave Epperson an idea, and 18 years later in 1923, he started selling “the Epsicle ice pop” for five cents, later changing the name to Popsicle.

• In 1930, Ruth Wakefield was making chocolate cookies at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. She ran out of baking chocolate so she broke a bar of semi-sweet chocolate into little pieces and added them to the dough. When the cookies came out of the oven, the chocolate hadn’t melted. Instead there were little chips of choco-late scattered throughout the cookie. She called her new creation Toll House Crunch Cookies. She later sold the recipe to Nestle. No one can eat just one! In 1853, at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York, a diner sent an order of french fries back to the kitchen because they were too thick. The chef, George Crum, remade the fries thinner this time, but the customer sent those back too. Crum decided to teach the diner a lesson, so he sliced a potato paper-thin and fried it until it was crisp. The cus-tomer loved them. Soon other customers were asking for potato chips. Today, in the United States, a pound of po-tato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.

• Sometimes, a little change can yield big results. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

• The phrase “busy as a bee” has roots in reality. To make just two pounds of honey, bees have to visit four million flowers, traveling a distance equal to four times around the earth.

• If you find yourself on the wrong end of a bee and get stung, grab an onion. This root vegetable contains a mild antibiotic that tames bee stings and also fights infections, soothes burns and relieves the itch of athlete’s foot.

1. HISTORY: The Geneva Convention, agreements that de-fine international treatment of prisoners of war, were up-dated in what year?2. MYTHOLOGY: What are the nine patron goddesses of the arts called?3. GEOGRAPHY: The Pyrenees Mountains lie between France and what other country?4. ANATOMY: Stomatitis is inflammation of what?5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Mother Cabrini was the first U.S. citizen to become what?6. PRESIDENTS: Who was the 14th president of the United States?7. SCIENCE: What genus do human beings belong to? 8. LITERATURE: In what century did Dante complete “The Divine Comedy”?9. TELEVISION: On the animated children’s show “Arthur,” what kind of animal does the main character resemble?10. MATH: What is the square root of 64?

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¥ On May 16, 1849, the New York City Board of Health finally is able to establish a hospital to deal with a cholera epidemic that, before it ends, kills more than 5,000 people. The disease spread when boat pas-sengers escaped from a mandatory quarantine.

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¥ On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss secures the neces-sary patents for canvas pants with copper rivets to re-inforce the stress points. Unable to sell a large supply of canvas in the California mining camps, Strauss had hit on the idea of using the durable material to make work pants for miners.

¥ On May 17, 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle, one of a group of American bombers based in Britain, becomes the first B-17 crew to complete 25 missions over Europe. A fictional film about the B-17, called “Memphis Belle,” was released in 1990.

¥ On May 21, 1955, unknown singer Chuck Berry paid his first visit to a recording studio and cut “May-bellene.” The song became a No. 1 R&B hit and a No. 5 pop hit. It helped that DJ Alan Freed played the record for two hours straight during his WINS radio show.

¥ On May 22, 1969, legendary actor Paul Newman makes his onscreen racing debut in the action-drama film “Winning.” Newman played Frank Capua, a struggling race car driver who must turn around his fortunes by winning the biggest race of them all -- the Indianapolis 500.

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... until now.When I lunched with her in Palm Springs, Gena told me, “I’m doing a film in Australia, which is a long way to go to make a movie, but ‘Last Dance’ is so good, I couldn’t turn it down! It’s about Ulah Lippman, a Holocaust survivor taken hostage by an injured ter-rorist after a bombing devastates her Melbourne neighborhood. It’s told from both their points of view and explains how they got where they are!” (If the title, “Last Dance” sounds familiar, it may be because of the Oscar-winning song “Last Dance” from the 1996 Donna Summer movie “Thank God It’s Friday.”)Gena has enjoyed her break from movie making by dividing her time between Los Angeles and Palm Springs with her husband, Robert Forrest. Her son, Nick Cassavetes, had to bow out of directing John Travolta’s new film, “Gotti: Three Generations” due to a scheduling conflict with another film, “Yellow,” to which he was already committed.***Marvel Comics is not wasting any time planning sequels to its new super-hero films “Thor” (due out in May) and “Captain America” (out July 22). Both Chris Hemsworth (“Thor”) and Chris Evans (“Captain America”) will be getting the big superstar build-up. The advance reviews for “Thor” are very positive for director Kenneth Branagh, the action sequences and Chris Hemsworth. As for Chris Evans, he has proven from his work in the “Fantastic Four” films that he can more than handle the acting required of him. It seems that as life gets more complicated, we need bigger than life super heroes for whom we can cheer.

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¥ It was the multitalented Pierre Beaumarchais -- born in the 18th century, he was a revolutionary in both France and America as well as a watchmaker, diplomat, musi-cian, spy, inventor, publisher and arms dealer -- who made the following sage observation: “It is not neces-sary to understand things in order to argue about them.”

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There are many inventions that have improved our lives. Just imagine life without electricity or indoor plumbing. Curiosity and ingenuity are the parts of human nature that drive us forward to create new and inventive ways to make our lives easier and more efficient. Here are just a few of the numerous inventions that have improved, or in some cases frustrated, our lives.• Sir John Harrington, Godson to Queen Elizabeth I, is the

true inventor of the flush toilet. In 1596, he engineered a valve that could release water from a water closet when pulled. Lavatories were installed for the Queen at Rich-mond in the late 16th century. We can thank Thomas Crapper for inventing the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made our modern toilet possible, and also, the Chi-nese, for inventing toilet paper in 50 B.C.

• After the light bulb was invented in 1848 and went into use, it actually came with a warning: “This room is equipped with an Edison Electric Light. Do not attempt to light with match. Simply turn key on wall by the door. The use of electricity for lighting is in no way detrimental to health, nor does it affect the soundness of sleep.” Jo-seph Swan developed a bulb before Edison, but the pair later joined forces and share credit for creating what we perhaps take for granted more than any other invention.

• Alexander Graham Bell beat Elisha Gray to the patent office by just a few hours to submit his request for a pat-ent on his invention in 1876, the telephone. Bell had been working on improving the telegraph when he discovered that different tones would vary the strength of an electric current in a wire.

• Bell and his assistant Thomas A. Watson built a work-ing transmitter with a membrane capable of varying elec-tronic currents, along with a receiver that would repro-duce these variations in audible frequencies. On March 10, 1876, Bell, talking through his instrument to Watson in the next room, spoke the famous first audible words to travel through a telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”

• The U.S. Department of Defense conceived the idea of the internet in the 1960s. The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by a British techie named Tim Berners-Lee. Four people used the internet in 1969; today, 1.2 billion people (19 percent of the world’s population) are connected. To-gether these two inventions have shrunk the world by pro-viding instant communication and access to information.

• The technology for cell phones actually began way back with Samuel Morse and his invention of the telegraph in 1835. In 1842, Morse was conducting an experiment to show that cable could transmit signals under water when the cable was broken by a passing ship. He proceeded with his experiment anyway, passing his telegraph signals through the water itself, and it worked. This introduced the concept of wireless by conduction, and Morse’s tele-graph was the first device to send messages using elec-tricity. The technology was born! Many years and many inventors later, on April 3, 1973, the 2.5-pound hand-held phone was demonstrated by creator Martin Cooper of Motorola.

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ALL MY CHILDRENJack received a fake email from Erica saying that she wasn’t coming home anytime soon. Ryan confronted Greenlee about keeping Madison’s pregnancy secret. Kendall wore a wire while try-ing to get information out of Ricky. Liza wondered why Jesse was visiting the cemetery alone. Erica tricked her kidnapper into bringing her a phone. Griffin panicked when he lost track of Kendall’s whereabouts. Wait to See: Jack is caught in an explosion.

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFULRidge began conducting his own search for Brooke and Thomas after the official search was

called off. Stephanie was surprised to find herself missing Brooke. Whip was jealous of the time that Taylor was spending with Ridge. Bill began to open up to the idea of a relationship with Steffy. Meanwhile, Katie began having second thoughts about giv-ing up on her marriage so easily. Donna found an unexpected friend in Pam. Wait to See: Tawny drives a wedge between Hope and Liam.

DAYS OF OUR LIVESNicole got the proof she needed that Rafe had been kidnapped by EJ. Rafe’s imposter was in a hurry to leave Salem and out of Sami’s life for good. Nicole turned the tables on EJ when he asked her for a divorce. Chloe went to the local bar to drown her sorrows, where she got acquainted with a stranger named Quinn. Sami went to spend time alone at the convent when in walked the real Rafe. Wait to See: Abigail catches Carly forging a prescription.

GENERAL HOSPITALBrenda lashed out at Sonny after Lucian disappeared. Jason suspected Anthony of fram-ing Abby for murder. Lisa bugged Robin and Patrick’s home. Jax threatened to sue Carly for full custody of Josslyn. Steve and Olivia took the next step in their romance. Siobhan rushed Lucky to the alter to distract him from all the sadness in his life. Luke asked Ethan to drink with him. Dante found out that Suzanne boarded a plane with a child who resembled Lucian. Wait to See: Siobhan accidentally discovers that Lucky is Aiden’s father.

ONE LIFE TO LIVETodd awoke from his coma and accused Tomas of shooting him. Deanna decided to stay in Llanview until she found her birth mother. Tess attacked Ford when he tried to have her committed. Charlie confronted Echo about lying to him. Matthew confessed to Destiny that he was the one who killed Eddie. Todd warned Jack not to follow in his footsteps. Wait to See: Kelly is seriously injured during a fight with Natalie.

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESSJana rendered Kevin unconscious as the police arrived. Olivia helped cover up the fact that Neil was the father of Sofia’s unborn child. Jack happily informed Victor that he was now a stockholder at Newman Enterprises. Lucy was taken away by child services until the legality of her adoption could be determined. Daniel prepared to take a DNA test. Wait to See: Nikki and Victor return to what’s familiar to them.

PHOTO: Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo stars as “Brenda” on “General Hospital

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