* Cotton candy is 98% air.
* Though cotton candy is primarily sugar, it usually contains less sugar than a can of an average soft drink. What appears to be a large serving of cotton candy is really only a small amount of sugar -- the rest is air, which gives cotton candy it's special appearance.
* There isn't enough sugar in cotton candy to make your teeth instantly form cavities. Unless, of course, you eat cotton candy multiple times a day and several times a week.
* Though it was at time called spun sugar and Fairy Floss, a new name for it emerged around 1920 in America. The name was none other than cotton candy.
* America celebrates National Cotton Candy Day on December 7th.
* Cotton candy was actually a popular trend in Italy that began in the 1400's. The old fashioned way of making cotton candy - or spun sugar as it was called - was to melt sugar in a pan and then use a fork to make strings of sugar over an upside down bowl.
* In 1897 two candy makers from Nashville, Tennessee by the names of William Morrison and John C. Wharton devised a machine that would change the way cotton candy was made.
* A Louisiana dentist by the name of Josef Delarose Lascoux also introduced cotton candy at his dental office. Lascoux never received a patent on his machine invention however. Now you must be thinking "I knew it!" because surely a dentist must have been behind the invention of something so sweet!
* Cotton candy made one of its first world debuts in 1900 at the Paris Exposition and then again in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair. (The Ferris wheel also was one of the highlights of this particular fair, but that's another story!)