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K-SOFA Means Krazy® Glue

Please read over the following fact sheet. On the back of this paper, write down ten (X) (10) new uses for this product.
Legal note: K-SOFA does not receive any direct or indirect income from the mention of this product. We neither endorse nor condemn.
Krazy Glue is named for the glue's seemingly crazy strength, quick-setting properties, and longevity as an adhesive.
In the motion picture What About Bob? (1991), Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfus) describes the symbiotic Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) as "Human Krazy Glue."
If your fingers get stuck together with Krazy Glue, dissolve the bond with nail polish remover or acetone, or soften with warm soapy water.
The winners of the 1996 "How Krazy Glue Saved the Day" contest, Don McMullan and Sharon Bennett of Clearwater, British Columbia, used Krazy Glue to get themselves down Robber's Pass when their 18-wheel semi-trailer's engine cooling fan separated from its rotating shaft hundreds of miles from the nearest service station in the middle of the night. They put six drops of Krazy Glue on the two metal pieces, held the parts together securely for three minutes, and were back on the road for another 80,000 miles.
Surgeons treat an arterial venous fistulas, or entangled cluster of arteries, by injecting liquid acrylic agents into the abnormal blood vessels to seal off the excessive flow of blood. The material used, N-Butyl Cyanoacrylate, is similar to the ingredients in Krazy Glue.
Physicians in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring.
During her highly publicized disappearance for four days in April 1996, Margot Kidder, who costarred with Christopher Reeve as Lois Lane in Superman movies, lived inside a cardboard box with a homeless person in downtown Los Angeles while suffering a manic-depressive episode. According to People magazine, "Kidder had lost some caps on her front teeth that sometimes fell out and which she cemented back in place with Krazy Glue. 'When you're having a manic episode,' she says, 'you don't always remember to pack the Krazy Glue.'"
Food stylists use Krazy Glue to keep food in place during photography sessions for advertisements, television commercials, and motion pictures.

K-SOFA Means Hershey's® Syrup

Please read over the following fact sheet. On the back of this paper, write down ten (X) (10) new uses for this product.
Legal note: K-SOFA does not receive any direct or indirect income from the mention of this product. We neither endorse nor condemn.
Hershey's Syrup is named for company founder Milton Hershey.
In 1900, inspired by a new chocolate-making machine he had seen at the 1893 Chicago Exposition, Milton Hershey sold his caramel company for one million dollars to start a chocolate factory in Derry Church, Pennsylvania, to manufacture America¹s first mass-marketed five-cent chocolate bar. In 1905, the factory was completed and Hershey began producing individually wrapped Hershey's milk chocolate bars, followed by Hershey's Milk Chocolate Kisses in 1907, the Mr. Goodbar candy bar in 1925, and Hershey¹s syrup in 1926.
In 1993, Hershey introduced Hugs, a white-and-dark chocolate product shaped like Hershey's Kisses.
Derry Church, Pennsylvania, the home of Hershey's Foods, was renamed Hershey in 1906.
In 1909, Milton Hershey and his wife founded the Milton Hershey School, a school for orphaned children near the chocolate plant. In 1918 Hershey donated the entire Hershey¹s Chocolate Corporation to the Milton Hershey School, and for years the company existed solely to fund the school. Although Hershey Foods is now publicly traded, the Milton Hershey School still controls 41.6 percent of the stock. Former Hershey's Food chairman William Dearden (1976-84) was a Hershey School graduate, as are many Hershey employees..
During the Depression, Milton Hershey put people to work by building a hotel, golf courses, a library, theaters, a museum, a stadium, and other facilities in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
Milton Hershey refused to advertise his product, convinced that quality would speak for itself. Even after Hershey¹s death in 1945, the company refused to advertise‹until 1970, when Hershey began losing sales to Mars.
The Hershey bar is one of the most widely recognized products in the world.
In 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, Hershey Foods sent 144,000 "heat-resistant" milk chocolate Desert Bars—capable of withstanding up to 100°F—to American troops in Saudi Arabia.
In 1995, MCI teamed up with Hershey to offer free long-distance calling to consumers who bought an 8-ounce or larger bag of Hershey's Kisses, Hershey's Hugs, or other chocolate products.

K-SOFA Means Wrigley's Spearmint® Gum

Please read over the following fact sheet. On the back of this paper, write down ten (X) (10) new uses for this product.
Legal note: K-SOFA does not receive any direct or indirect income from the mention of this product. We neither endorse nor condemn.
Wrigley's Spearmint gum is named after company founder WilliamWrigley, Jr., and the common garden mint (Mentha spicata) better knownas spearmint because of the sharp point of its leaves.
William Wrigley, Jr., started his career at the age of thirteen when,following his expulsion from school, his father put him to work sellingsoap door-to-door.
In 1891, William Wrigley, Jr., moved to Chicago to sell soap andbaking powder. At twenty-nine, he started his own business inChicago-with a wife and child and $32 in cash. When he began offeringcustomers free chewing gum by Zeno Manufacturing, customers offered tobuy the gum. So Wrigley developed his own gums, introducing Wrigley'sSpearmint and Juicy Fruit in 1893. By 1911, because of Wrigley'sinsistence on pumping huge amounts of money into advertising, Wrigley'sSpearmint had become the leading U.S. gum brand.
In 1915, William Wrigley, Jr. sent four free sticks of gum to everyperson listed in a U.S. phone book.
The spear-bodied elf character William Wrigley began using beforeWorld War I to promote Spearmint gum turned into the cheerful Wrigleygum boy of the 1960s.
During World War II, gum, considered an emergency ration, was alsogiven to soldiers to relieve tension and dry throats on long marches.G.I.s used chewed gum to patch jeep tires, gas tanks, life rafts, andparts of airplanes. Wrigley advertisements recommended five sticks ofgum per day for every war worker, insisting that "Factory tests show howchewing gum helps men feel better, work better."
William Wrigley was the first distributor to place gum next to restaurant cash registers.
The Wrigley family bought Catalina Island in 1919 and the ArizonaBiltmore Hotel in 1931, built the Wrigley building in Chicago in 1924,and owned the Chicago Cubs for 57 years.
The company did not raise the original five cent price of afive-stick package of Wrigley's Spearmint, Juicy Fruit, and Doublemintgums until 1971. Management reluctantly did so by creating a seven-stickpackage and charging a dime for it.
Before World War II, the basic ingredient of all chewing gum waschicle, the sap of the sapodilla tree indigenous to Central and SouthAmerica. When chicle became difficult to obtain during World War II, thegum industry developed synthetic gum bases such as polyvinyl acetate,supplied almost entirely by the Hercule Powder Company, an explosivesmanufacturer.
Americans chew approximately $2.5 billion worth of gum every year.
The average American chews 190 sticks of gum each year.

K-SOFA Means You Do the Math

Here, you have a choice. Please either use the following facts in word problems for Paul, Keith and Sam to work out or write a story about the best April Fools Day Joke ever. NOT BOTH!!!!!!
Per capita consumption of peanut butter in the U.S. and Canada is about 5 pounds annually. In the Netherlands, believed to be Europe's most developed market, per capita consumption is probably less than 0.5 pounds.
Americans spent more than $18 billion on lottery tickets in fiscal year 1990.
$627 billion is spent on food annually at shopping malls.
The new IRS employee manual includes provisions for collecting taxes in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
The first supermarket in the world was in France. The people who started it were related to the people who started the Big Bear supermarket chain in Texas.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Rowing Association, 15 percent of amateur rowers earn more than $100,000 a year.
Eight percent of company presidents use profanity selectively and consciously.
According to author Tom Heymann, on an average day 1,924 businesses are incorporated, 168 businesses fail, 6,082 complaints are received by the Better Business Bureau, nine corporate mergers occur, and five companies change their names.