St. Patrick’s Day fun and green beer. Here a just a few wacky facts you should know as we celebrate ….. To get you started The very first St. Patrick’s Day parade was not in Ireland. It was in Boston in 1737.
You better sit down for this one. St. Patrick was not Irish! His dad was 
Italian, his mother was Scottish and he was born in Scotland. His birth name was Maewyn Succat. Who knew? And the whole chasing snakes out of Ireland? Just a legend. The snakes represent the pagans that he converted to Christianity.
Raise Your Glass. On the average day, 5.5 million pints of Guinness are consumed around the world. That number more then doubles on St. Patrick’s Day, with more than 13 million pints going down the hatch.
Better book that church now. St. Patrick’s Day is considered the luckiest day of the year to get married. According to Irish superstition, Saturday is the worst day of the week to get married. As the proverb states “Marry on Monday for 
wealth – Tuesday for health – Wednesday the best day of all – Thursday for losses – Friday for crosses – Saturday for no luck at all.”
Keep you eye on the prize, and the leprechaun. Legend has it that if you catch a leprechaun, he will promise great wealth if you let him go. However, don’t take your eyes off him or he will vanish!
Four leaf clovers — for your eyes only. Found a four leaf clover? Great. You will now have good luck in gambling and racing and it will render witchcraft powerless! However, you must always carry it with you and never show it to 
others, or your luck will fail.
This is way worse than bad luck! Forget about bad luck. According to the Irish, if a black catcrosses your path in the moonlight, you will die in an epidemic. Yikes!
Get your green on! Consider yourself warned: if you don’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, people are allowed to pinch you. It was believed that wearing green made you invisible to leprechauns, who would pinch anyone they could see. Revelers began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder of that belief.
Seeing Green. For the past 40 years, the Chicago River has been dyed a brilliant shade of emerald
green in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Forty pounds of vegetable dye help provide the vibrant hue.
In Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, people traditionally wear a small bunch of shamrocks on their jackets or caps. Children wear orange, white and green badges, and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hair.
Legend says that each leaf of the clover means something: the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and the fourth for luck.
