Author: Lisa Mungovan

Today is World Table Tennis Day. It’s a lot easier to fit a ping-pong table in your house, than a tennis court. Table tennis began as a parlour game in Victorian England, and became an Olympic Sport in 19 88. If you don’t have a ping-pong table in your house, use your dining room table instead!

Today is Twinkie Day. The cream-filled sponge cake snacks, have been around since 1930. It’s also Fresh Tomato Day, which isn’t nearly as sweet, but is equally squishable. Keep them protected, while you celebrate Jump Over Things Day. It’s also Siamese Cat Day, so invite a kitty to jump over things with you!

Yum-yummy-yum, today is Caramel Popcorn Day! The salty-sweet treat has been around since the 18-hundreds. It’s Teflon Day too. If you make your own caramel corn, you’ll be thanking Roy Plunket for inventing Teflon, or polytetraflouroethylene, and Marion Trozzolo for the Happy Pan. Teflon is the non-stick coating that makes cookware easy to clean!

Get your pillows ready. It’s International Pillow Fight Day! Try not to bust open the pillow, or anyone’s head. Some cities even have a giant community pillow fight! It’s also Tag Day, so maybe you can make a new game, and tag people with pillows. Not it!

Today is DIY Day, which stands for Do It Yourself. You can learn just about anything from YouTube videos, from installing a toilet, to building a treehouse. One thing you might not want to do yourself, is walk on fire. It’s also Firewalk Day! Firewalking has been used in rituals and ceremonies, for 3000 years.

Do you have sugar, butter, cream, and salt in your kitchen? Then you have everything you need to celebrate Caramel Day. Find a recipe, to learn how to melt sugar into a delicious caramel sauce. It’s also Dandelion Day, and did you know they’re edible? Dip some sunny dandelions in caramel, and eat them!

Using a map app on your phone is handy. It tells you exactly where to turn. But today, on Reed A Road Map Day, unfold a paper map, to get a bigger picture and see exactly where everything is. Use it to find a pan of pizza, for Deep Dish Pizza Day.

In the Star Trek Universe in 2063, Zefram Cochrane took his first flight at speeds faster than Warp 1, in the Phoenix. It alerted the Vulcans of Earth’s entrance into the interstellar community. Today is Star Trek First Contact Day. Watch some episodes of Star Trek, learn a little Klingon, and live long and prosper!

Truett Hines once set a world record, for doing 8,100 pull-ups in 24 hours. His record only stood for one day, before being topped by Gary LLoyd, who completed 8,600 pull-ups in 24 hours. Now, Truett has reclaimed the title, by doing 10,001 pull-ups in 24 hours. Your move, Gary.

Have you ever tried to go to a website, and gotten a 4O4 error, “not found” message? Since today is April 4th, it’s 4O4 Day. If you want information, you can find it at the library instead. By the way, write your school librarian a thank-you-note, because it’s School Librarian Day.