Tomorrow, Sunday, is special. Not only is it Super Bowl Sunday (important to many people), it is Groundhog Day (important to almost no one).
But the icing on the cake is the date. 02/02/2020 is a rare, eight-digit palindrome! (Reading the same backward and forward.) The last one was 11/02/2011.
Sunday’s palindrome is extra-extra special, though. In the US we write the date as month, day, year. Elsewhere it is day, month, year. This is the only time, this century, that it works either way. The last one of these was 11/11/1111. The next one is 12/12/2121.
(There are, however, 12 eight-day palindrome dates this century that read only the American way. Guess that makes us special, right?)
Another bit of trivia: Sunday is the 33rd day of the year with 333 to follow. Leap year brings that tidy extra day.
So, feel free to amaze (and amuse) your friends with these bits of trivial. And may this day be even more special for you, in ways that make you smile.
The information in this post is from a Washington Post article by Ben Guarino.