- Binney and Smith Company developed their own famous line of wax crayons beginning on June 10, 1903.
- Edwin Binney, working with his wife, Alice Stead Binney, came up with their famous Crayola brand of crayons.
- Alice came up with the name Crayola by combining the French word for chalk, craie, with the first part of oleaginous, the oily paraffin wax used to make the crayon.
- All Crayola-branded products are marketed as non-toxic and safe for use by children.
- Crayola crayons come in 120 colors.
- The Crayola brand has ninety-nine percent name recognition in U.S. consumer households, and its products are sold in over 80 countries.
- The best seller is the 24 count box of crayons.
- Kids, ages 2-8, spend an average of 28 minutes each day coloring.
- The average American child will wear down 730 crayons by his tenth birthday.
- 100 billion crayons have been made since before World War I.
- According to the Crayola Company, you can eat 3,500 of its crayons a day and still not reach the level of toxicity found in an ordinary glass of drinking water.
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