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Teflon Day

Date When Celebrated : This holiday is always held on April 6

Today is Teflon Day, a special day to stick on your calendar, even though little or nothing sticks to Teflon.

What an amazing discovery. Teflon coated on kitchen pots, pans, cookie sheets and other cooking objects, saves you countless time in scouring and scrubbing at the kitchen sink.  While it is best known as a nonstick coating for cookware, it has many other uses.

Polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) is widely used as and industrial coating. It also is used in many other common products, including fabric and rug protection, hair styling tools, nail polish, and windshield wiper blades, to name a few.

Some of the best inventions were made by accident. Dr. Roy Plunkett was working in the laboratory trying to create a refrigerant. On April 6, 1938, he accidentally discovered Teflon. Teflon was trademarked in 1945. In 1961, Kansas City, Missouri professor Marion A. Trozzolo took Teflon from the lab to the kitchen. The first Teflon coated frying pan was called “The Happy Pan”. Cookware has not been the same since.

Did You Know? Teflon is a good electrical insulator, resulting in Teflon tape.

Celebrating Teflon Day

Can you think of any better way to enjoy this special day, than to cook and bake on Teflon coated cookware? Neither can we!

Happy Teflon Day!

Today's Chuckle: Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a say. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

 

History and Origin of Teflon Day

We know why this special day was created on April 6, as it commemorates the invention of Teflon.

Our research did not uncover who turned this into a special holiday event. It appears to have been first celebrated in the early 2010s.

We found some references to this a national day. However, there is no known presidential proclamation or act of congress, declaring this a true national day.

See Definition of National Days.

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Ecards Send a free Ecard daily for just about any April calendar holiday, occasion, observance or event. Or, just for the fun of it! 

Holiday Insights, where every day in April is a holiday, a bizarre or wacky day, an observance, or a special event. Join us in the daily calendar fun each and every day of the year.

Did You Know? There are literally thousands of daily holidays, special events and observances, more than one for every day of the year. Many of these holidays are new, and more are being created on a regular basis. Holidays in April are no exception. At Holiday Insights, we strive to thoroughly research and record the details of each one as completely and accurately as possible.

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