Category: What Day
The tooth fairy doesn’t get around as much as you think. The tooth fairy has been shown as a child with wings, a pixie, a dragon, a blue mother-figure, a flying ballerina, two …
Since the 1600s, a goat catcher goes up into the mountains to catch a wild goat to be crowned King Puck. Probably well over 400 years old, the “Fair …
At the time of the great Beer Flood, giant porter vats were a tourist draw at London breweries. “It is thought that one of the most spectacular sights, certainly …
The buyer of this coloring book gets to meet Ian Beck, the world famous illustrator. Then Mr. Beck, famous for the “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” album cover, will be forced …
We could have been backrubbing things on the Mesh. Tim Berners-Lee had a few possible names for the World Wide Web. The Mesh. Mine of Information. The Information Mine. Tim …
This is not a tall tale. On the soggy seacoast of southern France sloshes a region called Les Landes. Ironically much of Les Landes is neither land nor water. For centuries …
On National Sleepy Head Day in Finland, the last person sleeping in the house gets dunked. Legend of the Saints of Ephesus The Saints of Ephesus cannily slept in a …
Ratcatcher’s Day celebrates that famous exterminator: the Pied Piper of Hamelin. On July 22, 1376, a ratcatcher lured over a hundred children from Hamelin, Germany. They were never to …
Nathan’s hot dogs were so cheap that people didn’t trust the quality. Nathan Handwerker charged 5 cents for hot dogs until 1944. He raised the price to 7 cents, after …
Take a graphic designer, some devious salesmen, and an ambitious newspaper man. Graphic designer Harvey Ball was hired by State Mutual Life Assurance Company to make employees in …
The Nazis wanted to breed a racially “pure” cow. Hecks cows were an attempt to bring back the Auroch, a species of ancient, extinct wild bull. The Aurochs were …
Nothing says post-apocalyptic wasteland like teddy bears. Teddy bears are popping up all over video games, particularly in the Fallout World. They’re jailed, tied to train tracks and posed …
