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<\/a>\n– Binney & Smith produced the first box of Crayola crayons in 1903 and sold it for a nickle. It contained red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black sticks.<\/p>\n
– Crayons have a unique scent, and it’s pretty recognizable. On a list of the 20 most recognizable scents, crayons placed 18th. (Coffee and peanut butter were #1 and #2, respectively.)<\/p>\n
– Crayola introduced 8 bright new colors in 1990, including cerulean, royal blue, fushcia, jungle green, vivid tangerine, wild strawberry, dandelion, and teal blue. Eight other colors were retired: maize, raw umber, lemon yellow, blue gray, orange yellow, orange red, green blue and violet blue \u2013 are retired into the Crayola Hall of Fame in Easton, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
– In 1962, Crayola changed the name “Flesh” to “Peach” to recognize that there are many different flesh tones.<\/p>\n
– “Indian red” was retired in 1999 and reintroduced as “Chestnut.”<\/p>\n
– Crayons are popular worldwide. Crayola sells products in 80 countries, including Iceland and Belize. Crayon labels are printed in 11 different languages.<\/p>\n
Favorite Crayon Colors of Famous People<\/strong><\/p>\n – Mr. Rogers’ favorite color was Lemon Yellow. He explained that it was his favorite because he could see it easily. He was partially colorblind.<\/p>\n – Charles Schultz’s favorite color was Copper. He said that it reminded him of new pennies and the jacks he used to play with as a child.<\/p>\n – Whoopi Goldberg’s favorite color is Magenta. “It bellows to be noticed, and if you’re shy like I was you need something in your corner. What better way to face the world than armed with Magenta.”<\/p>\n – Former President George W. Bush’s favorite color is Blue Bell.<\/p>\n Sources: Signs posted around the Crayola Store; Crayola.com<\/a><\/p>\n You may also like: <\/strong>11 fun facts about the 4th of July<\/a><\/p>\n Prior post: <\/strong>Cooking out this weekend? BBQ word origins and fun facts<\/a><\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss a post! Please subscribe to Mom Factually\u2019s completely safe, spam-free email list in the box in the top right corner of the page!<\/p>\n Please like Mom Factually on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong> You can also find Mom Factually on Pinterest<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crayons are a staple of childhood, and now adult coloring books are incredibly popular.\u00a0 This weekend I visited the Crayola Store in Kansas City with my tween, and they had a lot of fun facts about crayons. Check\u00a0 and expand your view of color. – Binney & Smith produced the first box of Crayola crayons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6283,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/6283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}