Cafe au Lait Day
Cafe au Lait Day falls on February 17, honoring brewed coffee cut with hot milk in roughly equal measure, a drink defined by proportion rather than technique.
February 17
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Champion Crab Races Day
Champion Crab Races Day falls on February 17, and hermit crabs queue up by size to exchange shells in one of the strangest orderly behaviors in nature.
My Way Day
My Way Day falls on February 17, and the most American song ever recorded began as a French one about a marriage going quietly wrong.
Random Acts of Kindness Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day falls on February 17, and kindness spreads measurably to people who merely witnessed it and were not involved at all.
Pancake Day
Pancake Day is Shrove Tuesday, the movable feast before Lent when households cooked off the eggs, butter and milk they were about to give up for forty days.