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Unemployment/underemployment among people on the autism spectrum, walking to work, food store produce managers, reconciling with someone who should be a part of your life, peanut butter and jelly, ferrets, and math are topics to pay attention to today: Googol Day International Children's Book Day Love Your Produce Manager Day National Ferret Day National Walk to Work Day Peanut Butter and Jelly Day Reconciliation Day World Autism Awareness Day Apparently the advice columnist Ann Landers invented Reconciliation Day in 1989. International Children's Book Day is celebrated on the birth date of Hans Christian Andersen in 1805. Walking to work is a lot easier if you're WFH during a pandemic - maybe you only walk into another room. The pop math number the googol and the domesticated ferret get our attention today. Yulia Vambold on Unsplash

Today is Googol Day, when we celebrate the googol , the number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeroes, or 10^100, or 10,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000. The number wasn't created for a mathematically important reason. Instead it was the invention of a 9 year old kid in 1920 named Milton Sirotta, though his mathematician uncle, Edward Kasner , would go on to popularize it. We celebrate Googol Day today because Kasner was born on this date in 1878. Related to the googol is the googolplex , the number represented as 1 followed by googol zeroes, or 10^googol. (Writing this number out would exceed the capabilities of my computer - or any other - computer.) If you like the idea of ridiculously large numbers, this holiday is for you.