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Girl scout cookies are back and here are some small facts that go with them.

According to an infographic, the most popular of these beloved treats are the Thin Mint cookies, with 56 million of these cookies sold last year.

In 2012, about three million Girl Scouts sold a record-setting $714 million worth of cookies. In other terms, that's 210,162,000,000 calories that were sold.

Among the family of these cookies are some that have been given the boot off the sales rack. This group consists of cookies such as Lemon Coolers, Double Dutch and a cheese cracker type snack called Golden Yangles, which isn't even a cookie.

Believe it or not, the girls selling you these cookies could be you future government officials for as of 2005 more than 70% of the women in the senate and more than 65% of the women in the U.S House of Representatives were Girl Scouts alumnae.

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    akubra wrote...
    Come on!
    January 14, 2013 6:35 pm
    Where is the "All you ever wanted to know?" This story has two or three facts, that's not very much! KTAR, are you employing grade school kids to write your stories now?
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    MyOp wrote...
    @Akubra....
    January 15, 2013 5:20 am
    where have you been... they have been employing them for years now.
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    Anti-deceptor wrote...
    Of course they become politicians
    January 15, 2013 7:18 am
    They sell you something that isn't good for you, it's horribly overpriced for what little you get, they play on your sympathy rather than your sensibilities, they deliver less product each year as the prices go up, they claim your contribution will go towards good causes, but you never hear about any of them.
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    storkman wrote...
    over priced cookies
    January 15, 2013 7:53 am
    Agree with Anti-deceptor on the fact that price seems to go up almost every year & the packages get smaller/less cookies in them. I will no longer purchase cookies from them as of couple years ago when they raised the cost of cookies to $4/box. Lower prices on cookies to $3/box & you will sell alot more cookies.
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