Girl Scout Fun Facts:

• Girl Scouts is the largest education organization for girls in the world.
• Over 50 million American women were?Girl Scouts during their childhood.
• Today, there are 3.2 million Girl Scouts? 2.3 million girl members and 880,000 adult volunteers.
• There are Girl Scout troops in more than 92 countries. And as part of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), scouts are part of a worldwide sisterhood of 10 million girls and adults in 145 countries.
• Founder Juliette Low was very athletic. One of her skills was standing on her head. She stood on her head for every birthday to prove she could still do it. Once, she even stood on her head in the board room at the National Headquarters to show off the new Girl Scout shoes!
• During World War II, a Liberty Ship? was named in honor of Juliette Low.
• Juliette Low became deaf in one ear during childhood. She lost the hearing in her other ear at the age of 26, when a grain of rice thrown at her wedding lodged in her ear puncturing her ear drum. However, she never let her disability slow her down!
• The best-sell Girl Scout cookies, Thin Mint, is also the third-best-selling cookie of any sort in the US.

Famous Girl Scouts

• Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamill
• Comedian Lucille Ball
• News anchor Katie Couric
• More than two-thirds of women currently in Congress were Girl Scouts!