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8 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | MARCH 2016 Did You Know? By Micki Rosen DID YOU KNOW THAT MARCH 31 IS CRAYOLA CRAYON DAY? Crayola began its life as a company when cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith took over a pigment business in 1885 that Edwin's father owned. Since then, the company has produced a core set of 120 crayon colors, but they have also come out with many unique sets, including metallic, gem tone and scented, adding up to over 400 different shades! So dig out your old crayon box and find one of those new coloring books for adults and have some fun! DID YOU KNOW THAT MARCH 2 IS DR. SEUSS DAY? We truly love him in a house. We truly love him with a mouse. We truly love him here or there. We truly love him anywhere. We truly love the silly goose. We truly love old Dr. Seuss! Theodor Seuss Geisel, commonly known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, was a writer, poet and cartoonist. Though best known as a children's author (he released a whopping 46 books for kids), he also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns and a political cartoonist during the Second World War. He was also a true perfectionist, known to discard 95 percent of his material before settling on a theme for a new book and sometimes spending up to a year writing a single story. March 2nd is a celebration of his life and works, as it was on this day in 1904 that he entered the world. He made an incredible impact on numerous generations; he died in 1991 at the age of 87 at his home in La Jolla, California. DID YOU KNOW THAT MARCH 6 IS FROZEN FOOD DAY? While you might expect Frozen Food Day to be the invention of a manufacturer of frozen food, it was actually inaugurated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1984! Food frozen slowly is not very tasty when defrosted, but "flash" frozen food – the technique of freezing food quickly – keeps the food as fresh and delicious as it was when it was first frozen. The flash freezing technique was developed by none other than Clarence Birdseye, inspired by seeing Inuit eating thawed fish which had been frozen months earlier. You might recognize the Birdseye name from the frozen food section! DID YOU KNOW THAT MARCH 14 IS POTATO CHIP DAY? Potato Chip Day is a celebration of the world's best-loved snack, first created in the 19th century. Tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was staying at Saratoga Springs in New York and kept on sending back his French fries because he said they were cut too thick. Chef George Crum cut his spuds as thin as possible, initially as a joke – and the result was the world's first potato chips. The snack's popularity spread in the 1920s, when the first mass-produced packs went on sale. Lay's was the first big-name brand, but today there are loads of choices. DID YOU KNOW THAT MARCH 20 IS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS? This is a relatively new holiday; it was introduced by the General Assembly of the United Nations during 2012 and was celebrated for the first time in 2013. The aim is to educate and increase public awareness of the benefits of happiness. The original idea came from the Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayan region of Asia. There, the population is thought by many to be among the happiest in the world due to the holistic approach to life and the amount of importance which is placed on the well-being of people and communities.

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