From “National Measure Your Feet Day” to “Gorilla Suit Day,” the calendar is full of over-the-top days of celebration driven by marketing teams looking for creative opportunities to draw attention to ...

National Drinking Straw Day is celebrated by American strawophiles each Jan. 3, the date of Stone’s 1888 paper-straw patent. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER.

National Straw Day, the website notes, is a day to "enjoy your favorite beverage while using a drinking straw," adding later that while there are a variety of other materials for straws that "many ...

For something so small and hollow, the drinking straw has become quite a potent symbol over the years. ... a then-9-year-old boy who estimated that Americans used some 500 million straws a day.

One not very scientific, but much repeated estimate, put the number of disposable drinking straws used every day in the US at 500 million.The validity of that statistic has been disputed, and the ...