About 1.5% by weight of air-popped popcorn is made up of polyphenols. About two tablespoons of kernels, or 33 g of popped corn, would give you about 500 mg of polyphenols, which is about half of what the average American consumes in polyphenols each day — primarily from fruit juice, wine, tea, coffee and chocolate.

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The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound in Washington, D.C. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately.  Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and cancelled in 1967.