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The United Nations declared July 20 International Moon Day in 2021, pinning the observance to the night in 1969 when two people stood on another world for the first…
Every four years, one soccer match stops the planet. Offices empty in Buenos Aires, streets go silent in Madrid, and televisions in countries that didn't even qualify tune in anyway.…
Every July 17, World Emoji Day celebrates the small pictures that thoroughly took over global conversation, symbols that cross every language barrier, carry entire moods in a single character, and…
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Every traveler who rides a Japanese train comes home telling the same story: the train arrived to the minute, stopped precisely at the marks painted on the platform, and…
Cheese consumption is one of food's most lopsided world maps, dominated almost entirely by Europe, where per-person totals run to fifty and sixty pounds a year, while the United States,…
Paid vacation is one of the sharpest dividing lines in how the world works, with most developed countries guaranteeing every worker weeks of paid leave by law, plus paid public…