Category: What Day
Adults are so good at lying that they can often lie even to themselves. On average, adults lie about 10 times a day. We can throw about three …
For World Rat Day, here’s a tiny party for tiny rats (with tiny hats). Via: Imgur
April 1st is International Pillow Fight Day. Due to escalating tensions in the world, it ended with two nations threatening to use the nuclear option. Just kidding. International Pillow …
His corruption was total. His takings were immense. And his reputation is legendary. Few men are as synonymous with political corruption as William Magear Tweed or Boss Tweed. Here …
On Kanamara Matsuri or Penis Festival, people carry giant penises through the streets in one of the world’s most unusual festivals. Despite smirks and giggles from Westerners, this is …
Edgar Allan Poe happily called his time the “epoch of the hoax.” He contributed six hoaxes. But did he prank a city on April Fool’s Day? For over a century …
The First Church of the Last Laugh convenes for April Fool’s Day to celebrate Saint Stupid, patron Saint of Civilizations and Parking meters. You should come – you’re already …
On Mar. 30, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was formally adopted. The next day, Thomas Mundy Peterson cast the first African-American vote. A man of firsts, Thomas Mundy Peterson was …
There is probably the only battle a Manatee will ever be sure to win: a photo-shop one Here’s where the talented people at Reddit took the meeting between a …
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Medieval folk were a miserable lot. Not so. Even monks spent time coming up with Medieval pranks, wheezes, and practical jokes. Thomas Betson …
There’s probably a reason Columbus was disappointed at the masculine faces of mermaids According to a ship log dated January 9, 1493, Christopher Columbus said that on the previous …
On March 29, 1848, one of the first residents to notice a deafening silence was farmer Jed Porter of Niagara Falls, New York. Source During the late evening of …
