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Author Robert McCloskey, best known for his illustrated children's book Make Way for Ducklings also wrote Homer Price, a book about a boy who invents a machine that won't stop making donuts!

There's a donut shop in Hollywood with a 32-foot donut on top of it's roof that's been in lots of movies including Earth Girls are Easy (1988), Get Shorty (1995), and Crocodile Dundee (1986).

During the depths of the Great Depression, the Salvation Army fed the homeless with donuts filled with coffee flavored filling. They served as many as 2.5 million donuts in a single month in New York City alone!

There's a bakery in Prague that makes donut ice cream cones called chimney cakes based on a traditional Czech and Slovakian pastry called trdelniks.

There are two types of donuts, raised donuts made from a yeast-based dough and cake donuts made with baking soda or baking powder.

Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons named the main character Homer after his dad, who also loved donuts.

Spudnuts are donuts made of potatoes instead of flour

According to the Guinness Book of World's Records, John Haight won the world record for donut eating in 1981 by eating 29 donuts in six minutes!

Nineteenth century whalers used to celebrate getting to 1,000 barrels of whale oil by frying up a batch of donuts for the crew in whale oil!

Elizabeth Gregory, mother of 19th century ship captain Hanson Gregory, always made donuts for her son and his crew to take on their voyages.

The longest line of donuts ever made was 3,453.41 meters, made at the Manly Bennett Memorial Park in Hamburg, Michigan

The largest donut ever made was a jelly donut made in New York on January 21, 1933 weighing 1.7 tons!

There's people living in America with "Doughnut" or "Donut" as their first and last name! Mr. Donut Doughnut? Now that's just Dandee!

When President John F. Kennedy announced in Berlin, "Ich bin Berliner", he made the statement correctly and the Berlin crowd understood it the way he meant it to say "All free men are citizens of Berlin". Years later journalists joked that the crowd laughed at him for saying "I am a jelly donut" because a Berliner is a name for a jelly donut in parts of Germany, but that term is not used in Berlin. Fake news?

Once upon a time, people celebrated Halloween by bobbing for donuts hung by a string. Trick or Treating for candy came later!

Many Americans of German descent still continue the tradition of eating jelly donuts on New Years Eve, believing it will bring them good luck in the new year!

The largest donut mosaic was made with 7,040 donuts at the Lviv Pampykh Festival in Ukraine on January 7, 2012!

The town of Clam Cove Maine has a plaque in honor of Captain Hanson Gregory, who invented the first donut with a hole in the middle by jamming a donut onto one of the wheel's spokes at the helm of his ship so that he could enjoy his donut while steering the ship during storms!

Over 10 billion donuts are made in the United States every year!

Olliebollen were the first donuts originated in the Netherlands and there's a folkloric tale tied to these Dutch donuts. The goddess Perchta would fly through the mid-winter sky terrorizing all the local townspeople with her swordsmen, but if they had eaten an Olliebollen the mystical swords would slide right off and they were saved! The original health food!

In the Ukraine, donuts are called "pampukh" and are known as a symbol of Christmas.

Legendary Fashion Designer Tom Ford swears by the "Doughnut Diet", and has been quoted saying "They are happy. They relieve stress, stop headaches, provide energy, and are the best antidepressant on the market!"

Twenty nine percent of people who buy donuts eat them in their car before they get home! Donut worry, we've got plenty more! Come on back to see us soon!

When Admiral Richard Boyd traveled to Antartica for one of his South Pole expeditions, he brought 100 barrels of donut flour with him, which was enough to last two years!

Donuts are called pets de nonne in French, which translates to "nuns farts"!

Donuts have been around for centuries, and are believed to have originated in Holland or Germany.

During World War I before the Verailles Treaty was signed, Salvation Army volunteers in NYC sold donuts on street corners, and even auctioned off donuts on the steps of the Sub-Treasury Building (today's Federal Hall) with one donut being sold for $5,000!

A Russian immigrant named Adolph Levitt invented the first automated donut machine in 1920. Levitt dubbed it the: "Wonderful Almost Human Automatic Donut Machine"

Elvis Presley made only one commercial in his life on November 6, 1954 for Southern Maid Donuts. Elvis sang the commercial jingle live on TV during the Louisiana Hayride.

Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde is quoted as saying: "The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole".

Celebrities love donuts! Taylor Swift, Gisele Bundchen, and Beyonce have all been snapped enjoying donuts! The Kardashian sisters even had their own mini donut machine stand in their hotel room!

In his 1809 "A History of New York", the American writer and historian Washington Irving, famous for his short stories including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" described a doughnut as a pastry shaped like a wheel and used the Dutch name "oly koeks" for doughnut holes.

There was a donut shop in Michigan about to shut down for good, until the entire local police department stepped in to run the business and save their favorite treats!

During World War II, women who worked in the Red Cross delivered doughnuts, which earned them the name "Doughnut Dollies"!

Doughnut Economics is a model developed by Oxford economist Kate Raworth in 2012, with planetary limits and an equitable social foundation with the donut representing "a safe and just space for humanity to thrive in". We knew we loved donuts!

The doughnut may have been invented when bakers filled the center of their pastry dough that wouldn't cook all the way through with hazelnuts or walnuts and spices

Donuts have been a special part of many holidays and religious celebrations, first mentioned in the Bible in Chapter 7 and verse 12 of Leviticus which states a thanksgiving to God should should be made of "cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried".

According to nutritionists, if you are looking to start your day with less calories, carbohydrates, and sodium, donuts are a better choice than croissants, muffins, or bagels. Isn't that just Dandee!?!

Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz offers crullers to Hunk, Hickory, and Zeke after scolding them for being useless farmhands!

Legend has it that dunking first became popular when scarlet Mae Murray accidentally dropped her donut into her coffee at Lindy's on Broadway!

More donuts are sold in the United States than muffins and bagels combined!

The "cruller" has been described as a "small braided torpedo" and was considered a staple of the New England diet since the pilgrims.

The world's most expensive donut is made of 24K edible gold, edible diamond dust, and aged chocolate balsamic vinegar!

The donut emoji is commonly used to represent a metaphorical donut to be interpreted as taking the much-needed coffee break at work, or just a little me-time to rest and relax...life is short, eat the donut!

During the 1940s, celebrities including Johnny Carson, Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, Pearl Buck and Martha Graham were card carrying donut-dunking members of The National Dunking Association!

Clark Gable taught the world how to properly dunk donuts in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night, instructing his co-star Claudette Colbert playing a spoiled heiress: "Dunking's an art. Don't let it soak so long. A dip and - plop, into your mouth. If you let it soak too long, it'll get soft and fall off. It's a matter of timing. I ought to write a book about it."

At the 1933 Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair, donuts were known as the "Hit Food of the Century of Progress."

Cops & Donuts have been a thing since the 1950's when donut shops invited cops to stop by and have a free snack in exchange for the added protection offered by their frequent visits!

Historically, Boston has held the title for the most donut shops per person in the country, but a new study claims that the Providence-Warwick area is now number #1. Regardless of which city wins, it's clear that New Englanders love their donuts!

Jelly-filled donuts known as Sufganiyot are a traditional part of Hanukkah, a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem in the 2nd century BCE!

A donut shop in Portland, Oregon sold donuts dipped in Pepto-Bismal and sprinkled with Tums as a hangover cure, until the FDA forced them to stop!

"VITA BREVIS, MANDUCA GLOBUM CAVERNA" is Latin for "Life is short, eat the donut!"

A donut these days can refer to more than just the sweet treat we all know and love. It also can mean the act of spinning in a circle, as in a car doing donuts in a parking lot...which can get you in big trouble. In some cities, you can be fined up to $1000 for even just watching!

The alternative spelling "donut" was invented when the New York-based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment