National Yellow Pig Day 2024

Reason to celebrate: July 17, 2024 is National Yellow Pig Day.

Yellow Pig Day came from within the sixties when two math students from Princeton spent a very long time obsessively examining the amount 17. It appears they went just a little mad eventually, and made the decision to invent the idea of a yellow pig with 17 toes, 17 teeth, and thus forth… Now Yellow Pig Day is an integral part from the academic calendar, and it is celebrated with cake, carols, parades and general revelry.

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