World Smile Day
October 6, 2017
World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday in the month of October every year and this year it falls on 6th. Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts has created the SMILEY FACE in 1963 and he has initiated the idea of World Smile Day. The World’s first World Smile Day was held in the year 1999 and has been observed annually since.
“Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation” was created to honour his name and memory after his death in the year 2001. The slogan of the Smile Foundation is “improving this world, one smile at a time.”
Interesting facts about smiling
• Smiling is the first facial expression.
• Research by University of California, San Francisco have found out that there are 19 types of smiles.
• Smiling boosts your immune system.
• New-borns has the ability to smile.
• Smile can relieve stress by releasing endorphins.
• Those who smile live a healthy longer life.
• Smiling makes you look beautiful.
Source: www.en.wikipedia.org
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