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Observances today cover subjects like following leaders, expressing appreciation/gratitude towards a person in military service, game managers, experimenting with religion, scrapbooking, accomplishing things you're not sure you can do, grammar, pound cake, snacks, toy soldiers, tetrahedrons, and books/reading: World Book Day Toy Soldier Day Tetrahedron Day National Snack Day National Pound Cake Day National Grammar Day March Forth On March Fourth International Scrapbooking Industry Day International GM's Day Hug a GI Day Holy Experiment Day Courageous Follower Day International GM's Day is about  Game Masters , not General Managers. Leaders get a lot of the attention, but today is a day to recognize the followers. After all, without followers, there would be no leaders. And many times it takes a certain amount of courage to follow a leader who may be handling things differently than you'd prefer. March Forth on March Fourth encourages pushing the envelope on what you th...

Today is a day to celebrate the least-sided of the platonic solids , the regular tetrahedron . A regular tetrahedron is formed by putting 4 identical equilateral triangles together into a convex polyhedron . A non-regular tetrahedron would still consist of 4 triangles, but they would be different sizes and shapes. The tetrahedron is also a type of pyramid . A pyramid is a polyhedron with a polygon as a base where each vertex connects to another point on a different plane as the base. Many of the pyramids built by people use a square base, and thus are not tetrahedrons. Every tetrahedron is a pyramid, but not every pyramid is a tetrahedron. We celebrate tetrahedrons on March (3rd month) 4 because it's composed of triangles (3-sided polygons), and 4 of them. By KoenB - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5513755