Apparently the name Polos comes from Polar due to the cold feeling you get when you suck on them. My little sister even named her favorite toy Polar bear Polo, but that's nothing to do with anything.
Some other facts about Polo mints that are slightly more interesting are that they are produced under a pressure equivalent to two elephants jumping up and down on the mint. Luckily, the manufacturers decided to go with a machine to make their Polos rather than Nelly the elephant - a good choice seeing as 38 millions Polos are now produced per day and 140 eaten every second.
My favorite Polo fact is that if you crush them in a darkened room you will see them sparkle blue - this is known as triboluminescence (light produced by friction). What is happening is that, as you crush the sweets, they tend to break along planes or faults that are oppositely charged. When the broken positive and negative charges try to come back together, they charges jump across the rift like teeny bolts of lightning and you see it as blue light. Try crunching up the Polos while looking in a mirror (in a dark room) - sugar cubes work too.
There is no such thing as too much useless information!
