In The Shadow of The Shamrock – St.Paddy’s Day By The Numbers

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It’s not typical water cooler conversation on St. Paddy’s day. Instead, our casual chats are all about the Irish and so our friends at the personal finance website WalletHub have released a handy o’dandy report you can call - St. Patrick’s Day By The Numbers.
--51.2 percent of Americans plan to celebrate St Patrick's Day --of those, 82.1 percent plan to wear green!
--45 pounds of vegetable-based dye is used to turn the Chicago River green... but it only lasts five hours.
--St Patrick's Day ranks fourth among the most popular drinking days of the year --right behind New Year's Eve, Christmas and the Fourth of July.
--13 million pints of Guinness... will be consumed worldwide on St Patrick's Day

--$1.2 million... is the current market value of a leprechaun's pot of gold, which contains a thousand gold coins weighing one ounce each.
--St. Patrick’s partiers will spend an average of $35.40 to celebrate on the big day this year.
--There's a 70 percent increase in cabbage shipments during St. Patrick’s week
--33.1 million US residents claim Irish ancestry --or about seven times the current population of Ireland.
--Irish is the second most frequently reported European ancestry behind German.