Teatime in Holland, the date of the Columbine high school shootings in Colorado, the amount of clocks found in the movie Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarrantino, Hitler’s Birthday… the list goes on.

A common myth is that 420 is the police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress. This is false… if you hear a cop mention over radio after pulling you over “We’ve got a 11357”, this means they are notifying dispatch for possession of marijuana.

One may wonder where the origins of 420 began. My guess is a crazy, mad scientist coined the term. There are approximately 420 active chemical compounds in marijuana. I say approximately, because the number for most plants in actually around 315. Though that number can go up or down depending on the strain.

The actual origin points to a group of teenagers in California who called themselves the Waldo’s back in the 70’s. The Waldo’s would meet up at 4:20 every day after school to burn one. This is also the idea behind very short term project site: facefic.com.

What is facefic? This is a ridiculously specific blog dedicated to Facebook status that are- yep, you guessed it, 420 characters. Yet the creators of this site weren’t all that dedicated, the site was only actively running from April to June back in 2009. Therefore, it is a lesser known site.

April 20^th is a toker’s own special New Year’s Day, which is celebrated internationally.  Further, 4:20am/pm is recognized as “burn time”. I have friends who treat it as a sport where the goal is to smoke during “burn time” as many consecutive times as possible.