October 23: Mole Day and Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's October 23rd, and I dug a four-foot trench in the parking lot for Mole Day, with a cake shaped like a mole!

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorChip, it is not the animal.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer Wikipedia, it's a chemists' holiday, built on a number called the Avogadro constant, about six point oh two times ten to the twenty-third.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA number party! So I need a cake with six hundred sextillion sprinkles. I'll start counting now.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe date and the hours spell it out. It runs from six oh two a.m. to six oh two p.m. Eastern, on ten slash twenty-three.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the whole day is a password. I've been up since the first six oh two with a shovel.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA high school chemistry teacher in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Maurice Oehler, founded the National Mole Day Foundation on May fifteenth, nineteen ninety-one.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorPrairie du Chien! That's in Wisconsin? I thought all Wisconsin towns were just cheese factories.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt's a town. The cake can go to a classroom.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAlso, it's Hawke's Bay Anniversary Day in New Zealand! I assume that's another number, so I'm bringing more cake.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt's a public holiday there, per date.nager.at, in some regions. Bring the cake and stay out of the trench.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorYou're wearing the hat, Gloria! Does that make you a mole now?