AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CLIV 

1. Tootsie Rolls played a major part in the Korean War. During the brutal battle of Chosin Reservoir in the winter of 1950, the Marines were vastly outnumbered by Chinese Communist forces. In desperate need of supplies and out of ammunition, they requested 60mm mortar rounds by radio using the code word "Tootsie Rolls". The Air Force, misunderstanding the code, sent an airdrop of actual Tootsie Roll candies. While not the ammunition they needed, the Tootsie Rolls were a life-saving gift for the Marines. Able to survive the freezing temperatures, they provided sustenance and energy for the Marines and were a huge morale boost from home. They were even used to plug bullet holes in radiators, so equipment could be moved out of harm's way. The Chosin Reservoir Tootsie Roll airdrop is a legend in Marine history. To this day, the men of the 1st Marine Division who fought there (The Chosin Few) have an abiding affection for "the best candy in the world" and a representative of the Tootsie Roll company attends their annual re-unions to honor their service.

2. San Jose is the most popular place name in the world - 1,700+

3. The three most common city names in the United States are Washington, Franklin, and Springfield.

4. Harry Burnett Reese invented the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Formerly with Hershey, he invented the iconic candy when in business by himself in Pennsylvania in 1928.  He and his wife Edna had 16 children (8 sons and 8 daughters). The six surviving sons sold the company to Hershey in 1963. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Snickers are the two most popular candy bars in the world.

5. The name Molly Pitcher is the nickname associated with Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley. Her story tells of a woman who delivered water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth in the Revolutionary War, and later took her husband's place at a cannon when he was wounded. Truth or myth, the name Molly Pitcher is one given to all women who did the exhaustive work of supplying water to soldiers in the heat of combat and otherwise served with courage in the Revolutionary War. 

6. The K in K-rations stands for Ancel Keys, a physiologist and public health scientist, who developed the compact and nutritious meal ration used by the U.S. military during World War II. 

7. Ed Lowe invented cat litter in 1947. He named his product Kitty Letter - a phrase that has become generic for cat litter. Before Lowe's invention, people had to keep their cats outside where they did their business using sand and ashes - which they then tracked through the house. Cat litter allowed owners to keep their cats inside.

8. Sara Lee is Sara Lee Lubin, namesake daughter of Charles W. Lubin, who organized the Kitchens of Sara Lee in 1950.

9. Digitalis is a plant commonly known as the foxglove. Digoxin and digitalis are medicines made from the digitalis (foxglove) plant. They are used to treat certain heart conditions.

10. The beloved image of Cinderella slipping her delicate foot into the glass slipper has a brutal history. The Cinderella story is found in many cultures, one of the oldest being that of China. In the Chinese Cinderella, her small feet were the result of foot binding - a tradition practiced in China for centuries. It involved binding the feet of young girls to restrict their growth and create smaller, more delicate feet - considered a symbol of beauty and status. A size of 4 inches (10 centimeters) was considered ideal - the golden lotus. (A woman who wears a size 6 American shoe [relatively small feet] has a foot length of about 8 inches.) A foot length longer than 13 centimeters (a little over 5 inches) was called an iron lotus. Chinese men did not like "big" feet on women.