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Birthday Facts, Bonanza!
_Elsa_
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Tiffi arrives home and it’s not time to prepare dinner for her and Mr. Toffee yet so she does some googling to see what she can find out for Elsa’s new story. She looks up some birthday trivia and begins to read some birthday facts.
‘A recent survey showed that 71% of participants love celebrating their birthday, at any age. Are you one of them?
Well, you should be! Whether you're a birthday supporter or a birthday Scrooge, the fact remains that your 1-in-500 millionth chance of conception is something worth celebrating! So, help yourself to some cake, pour a little bubbly and savor some of these birthdays facts, along with that frosting.
An Overview of Birthday Trivia
• August is the most popular birthday month, accounting for about 9% of all the birthdays in the world!
• An estimated 2 billion birthday cards are sent every year in the U.S., alone!
• In the U.S., birthday cards account for nearly 58% of all cards that are purchased!
• In 1989, the world's largest birthday cake was created to celebrate the 100th birthday of Fort Payne, Alabama.
• The cake weighed 128,238 pounds, 8 oz. and used 16,209 pounds of icing!
• Marilyn Monroe's, “Happy Birthday, Mr President,” tribute is the most famous, birthday song rendition ever!
Tiffi goes to YouTube because she wants to see if she can find the video of Marilyn Monroe singing. And she finds it!
“That was interesting,” Tiffi thinks. “Time to get back to the trivia."
• The world's most expensive birth certificate belongs to Paul McCartney, which was auctioned in March 1997 for $84,146 USD!
• The Sultan of Brunei hosted the world's most expensive birthday party to celebrate his 50th year. The cost? A whopping $27.2 million! Three concerts featuring Michael Jackson cost $16 million of the total amounts.
• Anne Frank's world famous diary was given to her as a present for her 13th birthday.
• William Shakespeare died on his 52nd birthday: April 23, 1616.
• In the U.S., more people are born on October 5 than any other day.
I• n the U.S., the least common birth date is May 22nd (excluding leap years.)’ (Source)
“These are definitely fun birthday facts,” Tiffi thinks. “I will send the information to Elsa to see if she’s interested in adding it to the story.”
Let’s continue - Pick a day
Start at the beginning - The surprise birthday party
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