#18 - Crayons | March 31, 2020

10 Facts About Today

March 31, 2020 - 10 Facts About Crayons.

Today is National Crayon day.

Here are 10 colorful facts about crayons that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. Crayons used to be scented
   1. Brown used to smell like chocolate
   2. Red was cherry
   3. Black was licorice
   4. This was all the way up to 1995
   5. Parents were worried that their kids would eat them
2. Crayola makes 3 Billion crayons a year
   1. That’s enough to circle the earth 6 times
   2. Of those 3 billion, blue is the most popular color
   3. 226 Billion have been produced to date
3. They used to be sold door-to-door
   1. This was in 1903
   2. They were an 8-count box
   3. They costed nickel at that time
   4. Inflation makes that worth about $1.50 today
4. The average American kid will wear down 720 crayons by his/her 10th birthday
   1. Kids also spend an average of 28 minutes coloring everyday
5. One of their top crayon makers was colorblind
   1. He worked for them for 37 years
   2. He retired in 1990
   3. He help produce 1.4Billion crayons
6. Crayola has over 100 colors
   1. Currently 120 colors you can buy today
   2. There are actually more though, because there were some special editions
   3. Oprah's “the color purple”
7. The left-over stubs of crayons have a name
   1. They are called “leftolas”
   2. Left over crayolas
8. The largest crayon in the world weighs 1,500 lbs
   1. Its 16 ft long
   2. Its blue
   3. They melted a bunch of little crayons to make it
9. There used to be a booger scented crayon
   1. It was called booger buster
   2. It was made to appeal to fans of garbage pail kids
10. Crayons are one for the most recognizable scents
    1. Yale conducted a study to find the 20 most recognizable scents
    2. Crayons came in at 18th
    3. Coffee was number 1