It's National Doughnut Day And It's Friday! Five Fun Facts For Friday!

1. There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name...it's "Q".
2. Geographically, the United States and Canada are almost the exact same size. The U.S. is about 1.5% smaller . . . and it's only 3.5% smaller than all of Europe.
3. On this date in 1937, the shopping cart was invented
4. How about a fun fact about doughnuts! Historical records show that in the mid-19th century, the Dutch began making a treat known as olykoeks (oil cakes). These were balls of cake, that were cooked in pork fat until they were golden brown. The problem with these treats was that the cake cooked much faster on the outside than on the inside, leaving an uncooked center when the outside was done. In 1847, an American ship captain named Hansen Gregory came up with a solution. Rather than dealing with the gooey, uncooked center, he just punched a hole through the center of the dough, eliminating it altogether.
5. A group of parrots is called a pandemonium.