TIL Harvey Ball came up with the smiley face we all know, in minutes for a Life Assurance Company.

There’s a famous meme about this in the WORCESTER MASS community… Titled basically “it wasn’t a self portrait”

He looks like every central mass townie combined into one diner-dwelling chain-smoking semi famous illustrator.

I thought it was Forest Gump. Once again Hollywood has lied to me.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Not to be confused with Harvey balls.