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On January 16th, millions of Americans will observe a holiday so paradoxical it makes the concept of a “celebratory silence” seem almost logical. I’m talking about National Nothing Day, the only U.S. holiday whose central requirement is that you do…

What if your country had an official holiday dedicated to forgetting things? Not losing your keys or blanking on someone’s name—but a synchronized, government-sanctioned decision to pretend certain historical events simply never happened? Welcome to Iceland, where Gleypingardag (loosely translated…

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What do you get when you cross a newspaper columnist’s prank with a slow news day in January? The gloriously absurd National Nothing Day, established in 1973 by the late California columnist Harold Pullman Coffin. Observed annually on January 16th,…

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