October 20: Arbor Day and 4 more

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's October twentieth, and I'm in a party hat with a cake shaped like a box score, because it's World Statistics Day, baby!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI've printed trading cards of my own batting average.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorChip. It's a United Nations day. The Statistical Commission created it, per Wikipedia, and it was first celebrated on October twentieth, twenty ten.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo it's the anniversary of a stat! Twenty ten. Got it. I'll make cupcakes with the numbers on them.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe date written out is twenty, ten, twenty ten. The whole date is the joke. I have been to that kind of party.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn a basement.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwenty, ten, twenty ten! That's the best date ever! I'm counting every cupcake. Counting is statistics!

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCorrect. Barely. And the day is celebrated every five years.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorEvery five years?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorEvery five. You are early, or very late, depending on your cake.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThen I'll pair it with Arbor Day in the Czech Republic, also October twentieth!

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat's the one where you plant trees, so I'm planting my cake.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYou plant trees. Not cake. Kenya and Suriname also have public holidays on this date, and they did not ask for icing.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFine, no icing. I've booked the next one in five years and I'm counting the guests. That's a statistic, Gloria.