"Every day a holiday" on the National Day Calendar

As we launch into a new year, some clarification might be in order: National Lima Bean Respect Day (April 20) is not actually a national holiday. Neither is National Talk In An Elevator Day (July 28), or even the much-beloved National Taco Day (Oct. 4). What these so-called "National Days" are, really, are largely the invention of Marlo Anderson, of Mandan, North Dakota. "I've always had a love of celebration," he explained. "And I was digging around about where National Popcorn Day (Jan. 19) came from, and couldn't find any real information."

So, he started keeping a blog called the National Day Calendar which has since grown into the sort-of-official decider of those often weird days you see people celebrating on Facebook, or hear them talking about on morning TV. 

"The first month there was, like, 1,000 people that came to the website," Anderson said. And after six months, "We had 1 million people in the month come to the website. And I'm like, 'This is really interesting.'"