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Sherman A1

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Mon Mar 14, 2016, 04:00 AM Mar 2016

Daily Holidays - March 14

National Potato Chip Day Potato Chip Day is a celebration of the world’s best-loved snack, first created in the 19th century. Tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was staying at Saratoga Springs in New York and kept on sending back his French fries because he said they were cut too thick. Chef George Crum cut his spuds as thin as possible, initially as a joke – and the result was the world’s first potato chips. The snack’s popularity spread in the 1920s, when the first mass-produced packs went on sale. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/potato-chip-day/


Pi Day 3.141592653589793238462643383… That’s (part of) the number being celebrated on Pi Day! Pi (no, not pie) is the relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle, and a mathematical constant. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/pi-day/


http://www.famousbirthdays.com/march14.html
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Daily Holidays - March 14 (Original Post) Sherman A1 Mar 2016 OP
I love potato chips. bigwillq Mar 2016 #1
Happy Pi Day! femmocrat Mar 2016 #2
Does that mean today's the day for potato chip pi? n/t malthaussen Mar 2016 #3
Yes! shenmue Mar 2016 #4
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