7/17/26- Yellow Pigs, Emojis, and Aliens
- bribriny
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Friday 7/17/26
Celebrate:
National Peach Ice Cream Day
National Tattoo Day
World Day for International Justice
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Yellow Pigs Day - the main focus of the day is on celebrating the number 17. The day was created in the early 1960s by two Princeton math students, Michael Spivak and David Kelly, after they had been working with and listing the properties of the number 17. David had a collection of yellow pigs.
World Emoji Day
You might think it has something to do with emotion or emoticon, but the word actually comes from the Japanese words e (絵, meaning "picture") and moji (文字, meaning "character").
The very first set of 176 emojis—created in 1999 by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita for mobile phones—was so culturally significant that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City added them to its permanent architecture and design collection in 2016. They were incredibly pixelated, measuring just $12 \times 12$ pixels.
An enthusiast named Fred Benenson ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to translate Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick into emoji. The resulting book, titled Emoji Dick, pairs every single sentence of the original text with its emoji translation.
In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary chose the 😂 (Face with Tears of Joy) emoji as its "Word of the Year". It was the first time a pictograph had ever won the title, selected because it was the most used emoji globally that year and best captured the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.
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New in Theaters
The Odyssey - from Christopher Nolan and the Classic Book by Homer, enjoy this mythic action epic with Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and John Leguizamo.
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The majority of Americans believe in aliens, and we really do think they come in peace. According to a Pew Research study, about 63 percent of people said they think there is intelligent alien life on other planets, and 21 percent say humans have already made contact.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day -
The pocket lint that collects at the very bottom of your pants pockets actually has an official name: gnurr.
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Weekend things to Celebrate:
Saturday
Insurance Nerd Day
National Caviar Day
National Sour Candy Day
National Strawberry Rhubarb Wine Day
National Woodie Wagon Day
Perfect Family Day
Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day
World Listening Day
Sunday
Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day
International Retainer Day
National Daiquiri Day
National Fitch Day
National Ice Cream Day
National Raspberry Cake Day
National Words With Friends Day
New Friends Day
Stick Out Your Tongue Day
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Enjoy your weekend!
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