Welcome to Worldwide Weird Holidays, where you’ll find a new reason to celebrate every day of the year.
Fill Our Staplers Day
Fill Our Staplers Day connects Ben Franklin, bug hunting, Daylight Savings Time, and a club for dull men. We celebrate it twice a year, on the day after the shift from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November. It’s also known by […]
Panic Day
Have you ever wondered how the dinosaurs felt? Now’s your chance: It’s Panic Day! (Doesn’t it feel like every day is Panic Day right now?) PS: Save a little anxiety for International Panic Day on June 18th!
National Proofreading Day
Why wood ewe knead a proofreader wen yew halve spellcheck? Spell checkers ken ketch mistakes if there are obvious wons. It docent make sense too higher sum one fro that. Then again, you’ll never get a second chance to make a first impression. Happy National Proofreading Day!
National Frozen Food Day
Today is National Frozen Food Day, which honors the pioneering work of Clarence Birdseye. While living in Canada, he learned from the Inuit how to fish through a hole in the ice. He noticed that the day’s catch froze almost instantly, tasted fresh, and didn’t turn to mush like conventional slow-frozen foods when thawed. Convinced […]
World Thinking Day
February 22, 2026, is the 100th World Thinking Day. It doesn’t mean we get to lay off thinking for the rest of the year. It doesn’t mean the Earth is a sentient being. What is it? Read six (very short) paragraphs to find out. In 1899, Robert Baden-Powell wrote a field manual for fellow British […]
February 1 is NOT G.I. Joe Day but Neither is February 9
When I first wrote about G.I. Joe Day 10 years ago, many longstanding sources declared February 1st “G.I. Joe Day.” Years later, I stumbled across a Joe superfan forum and was surprised to see that I’d been singled out as the nefarious originator of this damnable lie that went on to infect the entire Internet. […]
Curmudgeons Day
Today is Curmudgeons Day, which celebrates the birth in 1880 of comedian, writer, drinker, and self-professed curmudgeon W.C. Fields. William Claude Dukenfield grew up in Philadelphia, PA, a city that later became the butt of many of his jokes. While this is true, many other aspects of his origin story are difficult to substantiate. He adopted […]
Thomas Crapper Day
Today is Thomas Crapper Day, commemorating the death in 1910 of the man widely believed to have invented the flush toilet. Although that is, as they say, crap, Crapper was a shrewd marketer, leveraging his status as plumber to the British royal family to popularize indoor plumbing. He owned the first showroom of bathroom facilities and […]
National Pass Gas Day
Today is National Pass Gas Day. Hot on the tail, if you will, of National Bean Day comes this celebration of all things flatulent. A 1995 study — yes, there have been studies — estimates that we pass gas 13.6 times a day. (Perhaps the remaining 0.4 refers to those that were smelt yet not […]
Festivus
Happy Festivus! Today is Festivus. What is it? Where did it come from? Per Wikipedia: Festivus (/ˈfɛstɪvəs/) is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as an alternative to the perceived pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season. The non-commercial holiday’s celebration, as depicted on Seinfeld, occurs on December 23 and includes a Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the […]