Girl Scouts – and their parents – are busy delivering cookies sold earlier this year.

To prepare you for the Thin Mint onslaught, here are some facts about Girl Scout cookies, according to www.girlscouts.org:

¢ There are eight varieties of Girl Scout cookies.

¢ All cookies sold by the Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri are baked by ABC Interbake Foods.

¢ The top five best-selling cookies are, starting with most popular, Thin Mints, Samoas (Caramel deLites), Tagalongs (Peanut Butter Patties), Do-Si-Dos (Peanut Butter Sandwiches) and Trefoils (Shortbread).

¢ Thin Mints are produced at a rate of nearly 2 million cookies a day in an oven that is as long as a football field.

¢ All cookies are kosher.

¢ A breakdown of where the $3.50 per box goes – 71 percent goes to fund local Girl Scout Council activities; 24 percent goes to the cost of the cookies, delivery, etc.; and 5 percent goes to the cost of holding the sale by the national Girl Scouts, including uncollectible troop accounts and insufficient funds.

¢ Girl Scouts sell nearly 200 million boxes of cookies each year.

¢ Girl Scouts began selling cookies in 1917.

¢ The sale of cookies was suspended during World War II because of the lack of sugar supplies. Girls sold calendars instead.