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Cats Vs. Small Places
The Best Places To Live In America
Hilarious Signs
I Want A Regular Doctor
Why Are You Calling Me Now?
Today's Inspiration
Reflecting Christ's Character
There are caves in Missouri that store 1.4 billion pounds of government-owned cheese. Located deep in the Ozark Mountains in limestone-converted mines, the caves are kept at a perfect 36ºF. As someone who's lactose intolerant, my stomach is in knots just thinking about it.
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Quite obviously, National Root Beer Float Day, a holiday that dates back at least until 1983, celebrates root beer floats! These ice cream sodas are made when vanilla ice cream is set atop root beer. A frothy foam forms, and along with it, a new flavor combination. It isn't known how the day came to be, but it has been embraced by restaurants and hotels. One of the most prominent companies to take part is A&W Restaurants, where the root beer float is a signature menu item. Since 2013, they have given out free small root beer floats on the day, while accepting donations and raising money for Disabled American Veterans (DAV).
Root beer floats date to the nineteenth century. One day in 1893, Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado, owner of a tavern and gold mine, looked at a nearby mountain topped with snow and thought it looked like ice cream on top of soda. It gave him the idea to invent the root beer float, and he called his creation a "black cow." Nowadays, the name for a root beer float varies from region to region, but in some places, it is "black cow" or "brown cow."
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