People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn as long ago as 3-6000 years ago.
http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/ancient-popcorn-discovered-peru
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The first stanza of the poem that begins “There was a little girl, /Who had a little curl,/right in the middle of her forehead…” has been attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.