{"id":11416,"date":"2024-02-21T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?p=11416"},"modified":"2025-05-15T02:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:13:42","slug":"fun-birthday-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/birthdaytrivia\/fun-birthday-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Birthday Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-scaled.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/view-party-decorations-laptop-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, birthdays\u2026mostly a joyous occasion until you start to get up there in years like me in which case you may start to want to slow the clock down a bit.&nbsp; All in all though, birthdays are fun to celebrate.&nbsp; Before you send out those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/birthday-cards\/browse-all-birthday-cards.htm\">Birthday Cards<\/a>, here are some interesting and fun birthday facts that you may or may not be aware of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The month of August has more birthday celebrations than any other month.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The month with the least amount of birthdays is February.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you are celebrating a birthday today, it will only be 31,536,000 seconds until your next one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 22<sup>nd<\/sup> is the least common birthday.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 5<sup>th<\/sup> is the most common birthday.&nbsp; For those of you backtracking, that\u2019s some New Year\u2019s Eve fun.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The most popular song in the English language is \u201cHappy Birthday to You.\u201d&nbsp; Because it\u2019s copyrighted, the song makes tons of money from licensing fees which is why you rarely hear it sung on TV.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What goes up and never comes down?&nbsp; Your age of course.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upwards of two billion dollars are spent in the US on birthday cards every year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In a room with 23 people, there is a 50\/50 chance that someone else in the room will share your birthday.&nbsp; If you increase the number of people to 70, your chances increase to 99%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The first birthday balloons were made out of animal intestines filled up with water.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The sun will travel 584,337,600 miles from one birthday to the next.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Noisemakers used for birthdays originated in Europe as a way to ward off evil.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What did one candle say to the other? Don\u2019t birthdays burn you up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ah, birthdays\u2026mostly a joyous occasion until you start to get up there in years like me in which&hellip;","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":12220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1292,1297,30,31],"tags":[38,912,111,1250],"class_list":{"0":"post-11416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-occasions-and-celebrations","8":"category-birthday-inspiration","9":"category-birthdaytrivia","10":"category-business-birthday-cards","11":"tag-birthday-cards","12":"tag-business-birthday-cards","13":"tag-happy-birthday-cards","14":"tag-birthday-facts","15":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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