It's National Pretzel Day, and here are some FUN FACTS to share today...
- The pretzel company Auntie Anne's is named after a real person.
It was started by a woman named Anne Beiler in Downington, Pennsylvania. The first store opened in 1988.
- According to legend, pretzels were first invented by monks.
A lot of people associate them with Germany. But experts think Italian monks were the first to make them in the 7th century. They were supposed to resemble folded arms, which was how they prayed.
- The world's largest pretzel weighed 1,728 pounds. A team in El Salvador made it in 2015.
- A pretzel almost killed a U.S. president.
President George W. Bush was watching a football game in 2002 when he choked on a pretzel . . . lost consciousness . . . and fell off a couch.