Have you never been yellow?

 

I cannot believe I missed National Yellow Pig Day yesterday. So many fake holidays, so little fake time. But apparently Yellow Pig Day has nothing to do with yellow pigs anyway. The yellow pig is the random mascot for the number 17. And why is the number 17 important you ask?

• The number 17 is a premium number in the arena of prime numbers. Add the first four prime numbers together, and 17 is their sum.
• The average school bus weighs 17 tons with passengers inside.
• Each of the following words has 17 letters: interdisciplinary telecommunication misinterpretation commercialization electrophotometer
• The atomic number of chlorine is 17.
• Pebble Beach has a specific road known as the 17 Mile Drive along the Monterey Peninsula in California. However, the exact length of the road is 16.78 miles.
• The 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gave the citizens of the United States the right to elect their senators by popular vote. Before the states ratified the amendment on April 8, 1913, each state's' legislature would elect the senators to Congress.

You can't make this shit up. Well, actually you can. Someone did and got the National Days people to buy into it for some reason. 

I don't feel so bad  now about the random shit I write about.