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Holidays occurring today are about home caregivers asking for children to be brought to work, a folkloric giant lumberjack, being aware of the importance of insurance, body piercing, tapioca, shouting, perfect numbers, and the number tau: CAPS LOCK DAY Insurance Awareness Day International Body Piercing Day National Tapioca Day Paul Bunyan Day Perfect Day Please Take My Children to Work Day Tau Day The holiday Take Your Daughters/Sons to Work Day inspires some satire, including today's plea for someone to take their children to work. CAPS LOCK DAY sorta makes it look like you're shouting, and this rendition of the holiday is intended to honor the pitchman Billy Mays, known for his shouting sales pitches. Perfect Day is about perfect numbers, like 6 and 28. (Perfect numbers are numbers where the sum of the divisors is equal to the number itself, like 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 and 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14.) Some math nerds believe that we should be using tau - pi X 2 - instead of pi in our fo

Observances today are about child safety information coming from a cartoon puppy, freedom to marry who you want, hugging, the NAACP, plum pudding, the Lincoln penny, the founding of the Georgia colony, a folkloric lumberjack, Abraham Lincoln, and Charles Darwin: Darwin Day Hug Day Lincoln's Birthday NAACP Day National Freedom to Marry Day National Lost Penny Day Oglethorpe Day Paul Bunyan Day Plum Pudding Day Safety Pup Day In another Valentine's Day precursor, today is about hugs. On this date in 1733 British General James Edward Oglethorpe landed at and founded the colony (now state) of Georgia. Abraham Lincoln , considered one of the best US presidents, was born on this date in 1809. One hundred years later on this date, the Lincoln penny debutted and the NAACP was founded. Lincoln's birthday was even selected by the LGBTQ community as National Freedom to Marry Day. Charles Darwin , who revolutionized the way we think about life on Earth, was born on this date in 1809