"They say it's your birthday"
 Crazy themes, pinatas, hordes of screaming kids, candy, cake, gifts, and funny little hats: these are the things that birthdays are made of for the average American kid. Celebrate your next solar revolution sweetly and in style with the best birthday goodies from Candy.com!
Some Birthday Facts:
In the middle ages, English birthday celebrants would bake cake with special, symbolic items concealed inside. Finding a coin in your cake represented he promise of future wealth, while a ring suggested happy marriage and a thimble meant spinsterhood.
The most frequent birthday has been calculated to be October 5th, with an average of 12,576 worldwide births on this date annually. The least frequent is believed to be May 22, with an annual average of 10,259 worldwide births.
In many cultures and religions, special significance is typically attributed to a year in the early or mid teens, at which point an individual may be considered an adult. Examples include the bar mitzvah for 13 year old boys and bat mitzvah for 12 year old girls in Judaism, the quinceañera for a young woman's 15th birthday in Hispanic cultures, the 18th birthday for females in the Philippines and the 12th or 13th birthday in Hindu culture.
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