- Happy Birthday to You, the traditional birthday song, was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers, Mildred J. Hill, an authority on Negro spirituals, and Dr. Patty Smith Hill, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University. It was copyrighted in 1935 and renewed in 1963. Though the song was apparently written in 1893, it was first copyrighted in 1935 after a lawsuit (reported in the New York Times of August 15, 1934). In 1988, Birch Tree Group, Ltd. sold the rights of the song to Warner Communications.
- Birthday shopping is a $10 billion business.
- Approximately 1.2 billion birthday cards will be given this year according to Hallmark research.
- About 5 million people celebrate birthdays in the U.S. each week; an average of 700,000 each day.
- A recent survey suggests that more people are born on October 5 in the United States than any other day. Not so surprising, as conception would have fallen on New Year's Eve.
- The least common birth date in the United States is May 22.
- More people are born in August than any other month (9.14%). About 21 million Americans have birthdays in August.
- For Americans, birthdays are the number-one reason to party!
- Birthdays have been celebrated only since the invention of the calendar in 4000 B.C. Only kings celebrated their birthdays in ancient times because no records were kept on common people.
- The first children's birthday parties occurred in Germany and was called Kinderfeste.
- The first birthday card originated in England in 1850.
- The Latex balloons we sell are made from 100% natural latex -- not plastic. They are biodegradable, and decompose as fast as an oak leaf in your backyard!
- Latex balloons come from rubber trees. Latex is collected by cutting the trees bark, then catching the latex in a cup. Latex harvesting does not hurt the tree. A tree can produce latex for up to 40 years!
- If the sound of a balloon popping startles you, you’re not alone. A bursting balloon actually creates a small sonic boom! Once a hole is made in an inflated balloon, the quick release of the balloon’s energy, or air, causes the hole to grow at almost the speed of sound in rubber. Since this speed is much higher than the speed of sound in air, the hole in the balloon actually breaks the sound barrier, creating a sonic boom.
- Balloons were invented in 1824, the same year as the electromagnet.
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