Happy birthday to us! May 5th marks Ben & Jerry's 39th birthday, and while we'd like to celebrate by eating 39 pints of ice cream, our bellies would probably prefer that we find another way to show our excitement. So, we thought we'd dig up 39 weird, random, totally unnecessary fun facts about Ben & Jerry's to share. Maybe have a spoonful of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough for each one, in our honor:

Item number 1 Ben & Jerry’s was originally going to be a bagel company, but Ben and Jerry found the bagel-making equipment to be too pricey. Their plan was to deliver bagels, lox, cream cheese, and the New York Times on Sunday mornings.

Item number 2 Jerry was the first CEO of the company, so they made it up to Ben by putting his name first in “Ben & Jerry’s”.

Item number 3 Each employee gets 3 pints of delicious Ben & Jerry’s goodness a day.

Item number 4 Dastardly Mash (1979-1991) was the only flavor ever to contain raisins.

Item number 5 We have a graveyard where we bury our discontinued flavors. There are over 300 flavors that have been sent to the graveyard.

Item number 6 Founders Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield met in 7th grade gym class in Long Island in 1963. They were the two slowest kids in class.

Item number 7 Ben and Jerry moved to Vermont and completed a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State University. They get a perfect score because the test was open book.

Item number 8 The first flavor ever created by Ben and Jerry was Vanilla. Gasp!

Item number 9 There is a tree house and a slide in the Ben & Jerry’s offices – both are used often.

Item number 10 We created Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough after a fan anonymously suggested it at our first Scoop Shop. It’s since become an ice cream legend.

Item number 11 All of the meeting rooms at Ben & Jerry’s headquarters are named after ice cream flavors.

Item number 12 Ben & Jerry’s has two hot air balloons that they break out on special occasions. One is shaped like a Cherry Garcia ice cream cone and is almost 100 ft. high.

Item number 13 The summer after their freshman year of college, Ben Cohen drove an ice cream truck, and Jerry parked cars at the local beach.

Item number 14 The first Ben & Jerry’s location in Vermont was a renovated gas station, where they shared space with a local farmer who sold produce.

Item number 15 Ben wanted to call the business “Josephine’s Flying Machine”, but Jerry didn’t like it.

Item number 16 The first pints were Oreo Mint, French Vanilla, Chocolate Fudge, Wild Blueberry, Mocha Walnut, Maple Walnut, Honey Coffee and Honey Orange.

Item number 17 Unfortunately, none of the original 8 flavors have survived.

Item number 18 There’s a Scoop Shop that sits on stilts in Bannister’s Wharf, Newport, RI

Item number 19 Canada was the first country outside the US to celebrate Free Cone Day

Item number 20 Ben & Jerry’s headquarters are dog friendly, and many employees bring their pups to work.

Item number 21 Worldwide, our most popular flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

Item number 22 Jerry used to drop boxes of toffee from the top of a ladder to break them up to use in Coffee Heath Bar Crunch.

Item number 23 In 1986, Ben and Jerry got into their “Cowmobile” and drove across the United States, handing out free Ben & Jerry's. Sadly, it burned to the ground on the way home. Ben said it looked like a giant Baked Alaska!

Item number 24 Last year, PETA gave Ben & Jerry’s their annual Proggy award in recognition of the new vegan Non-Dairy line.

Item number 25 Each waffle cone has an average of 259 little squares. Why so many? The textured surface holds more ice cream than a smooth surface.

Item number 26 When Ben & Jerry’s first started, we sold soup, crepes, and pottery alongside the now-famous ice cream.

Item number 27 Bourbon Pecan Pie can only be found in the state of Texas. Road trip?

Item number 28 The machinery we use to create our Cores flavors is based on a German sausage maker.

Item number 29 Including ice cream, light ice cream, low fat ice cream, no sugar added ice cream, Carb Karma, Greek and regular frozen yogurt, there have been 43 flavors with ‘Vanilla’ in the name.

Item number 30 We have Flavor Labs at our Waterbury, VT factory and at the Scoop Shop in Tokyo, Japan, where we create wild new flavors every week.

Item number 31 Chocolate Therapy and Oatmeal Cookie Chunk are the only Limited Batches we’ve ever made into full-time flavors.

Item number 32 Speaking of Oatmeal Cookie Chunk, we’re pretty sure it’s our most-missed flavor. Maybe.

Item number 33 The first Free Cone Day was in 1979 and was the founders’ way of thanking their customers for helping them get through their first year.

Item number 34 The cow you see on Ben & Jerry’s packages is named Woody, after Woody Jackson, the artist who designed her in 1983.

Item number 35 We were the first ice cream company in the world to make Cores, pints of ice cream with a thick core of something euphorically awesome (like caramel or brownie batter) in the middle.

Item number 36 Since the late 1980’s, we’ve gotten all our delicious, fudgy brownie chunks from Greyston Bakery, a social mission-led bakery in Yonkers, NY that employs folks who have faced barriers to employment.

Item number 37 100% of the profits from Greyston Bakery benefit the Yonkers, NY community, and we are proud to be a part of it.

Item number 38 These days we hand out around 1 million free scoops of ice cream each Free Cone Day. Whoa!