odditudes-and-weirdities

Holidays today are about the braille written language, a famous dwarf performer, the pop music chart, fresh starts at the beginning of the new week/year, the dimpled chads of a paper voting ballot, giving a flower basket as a gift, weighing yourself with a goal of achieving a healthy body weight, hypnotism, spaghetti, and trivia: Dimpled Chad Day Flower Basket Day National Spaghetti Day National Thank God It's Monday Day National Weigh-In Day Pop Music Chart Day Tom Thumb Day Trivia Day World Braille Day World Hypnotism Day Dimpled Chad Day harkens back to the presidential election of 2000, considered controversial at the time but which could be considered a smooth election/transition compared to this year. Charles Sherwood Stratton, whose stage name was General Tom Thumb, was born on this date in 1838. Louis Braille, who was blinded in childhood and would go on to develop the braille reading language for the blind, was born on this date in 1809. Many workers and students look forw...