The first emoji was developed by Shigeaka Kurita in 1999. He created a series of 176 emojis to be used for his company's emailing system. They were adopted for worldwide usage in the 2010s, when Unicode developers adopted them and turned them global.

The word ‘emoji’ is a combination of three Japanese words, the letter ‘e’ for pictures, the word ‘mo’ for writing, and the word ‘ji’ for characters.

athree23/Unsplash. Apple launched an emoji keyboard

The Apple company launched an official emoji keyboard in the year 2011 for their new iOS.

There are more than 2700 emojis in the Unicode standardized list.

The creator of the emojis, Shigetaka Kurita, was not allowed to use the poop emoji in his collection by his company and so, other contributors later added the poop emoji to the collection later.

The most widely used emoji in the world, as stated by the Emojitracker in the year 2018, is the happy face with tears of joy. The said emoji has been used more than 2 billion times on Twitter since the year 2012.

Lidya Nada/Unsplash. The most used emoji of all time is the ‘happy crying’ emoji.

The original emoji collection was obtained by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2016.

A movie created on emojis, the “Emoji Movie,” has a low score of 7% on the film website Rotten Tomatoes.

The most-used emoji, the face with tears of joy, was also declared the ‘word’ of the year in 2015 by the Oxford Dictionary.

In 2015, Unicode was accused of a lack of diversity among the available emojis and so, they came up with the option of choosing the skin color of the emoji later that same year.

In the year 2017, Unicode Emojis updated their collection by adding elves, vampires, mermaids, and other mythical creatures to the existing emojis.

12019/Pixabay. The White House released a report with emojis as pictures.

It might seem too far-fetched but the White House once released an economic report which used emojis as illustrations.

The Unicode Consortium receives a large number of proposals for new emojis to be added to their collection. By now, the frequency of new emoji proposals is so high that the subcommittee which decided on the matter meets biweekly to consider the proposed emojis.

The emoji with the ‘very shocked’ emotion is somewhat based on the famous painting by Edvard Munch, “The Scream.”

A mosquito emoji was developed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation so that it could be used to denote viruses spread by mosquitoes, such as the Zika and Malaria virus. The mosquito emoji was developed so that even illiterate people can be given awareness of these diseases.