10 Explosive Facts about Popcorn

“Pop“ over our tasty popcorn facts to learn fun popcorn facts, including surprising statistics, interesting history, and tasty trivia. 1. Americans eat around 17 billion quarts of popcorn every year. This amount would fill the Empire State Building 18 times. 2. Popcorn kernels pop with such power that they can pop up to 3 feet in the air. 3. Laid end-to-end, it would take over 350 million popped kernels to span the distance from Los Angeles to New York City. 4. Orville Redenbacher is the #1 best-selling popcorn in the world. Its inventor, Orville, began to grow popping corn in 1919, when he was just 12 years old. 5. Unpopped popcorn kernels are called “spinsters” or “old maids.” 6. American inventor Percy Spencer accidentally invented microwave popcorn in 1946 when he noticed that a magnetron melted a chocolate bar in his pocket. He made history when he decided to see what it would do to popcorn. 7.