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You won’t find a greeting card for Yellow Pig Day, but you will find an emoji for just about everything else we’re celebrating today — and we’ve got a couple of trivia questions to match. Let’s dive in.

😘 World Emoji Day

Created in Japan in the 1990s, emojis have become our digital language of love, laughter, and the occasional shrug 🤷.
Favorites in the studio today? The kiss face 😘, hug emoji 🤗, and classic red heart ❤️.
📲 What’s your most-used emoji?

🐷 Yellow Pig Day

Wait… what? It’s a mathematician’s holiday, celebrating the number 17 — a quirky, curious prime number.
Why the pig? No one really knows. But mathematicians have been celebrating it since the 1960s, and that’s good enough for us.

🍑 National Peach Ice Cream Day

Sweet, creamy, and perfectly in-season — peach ice cream hits different in July.
Never tried it? Today’s your excuse. Bonus points if you make your own

🎸 Ink, Ice Cream, and Emojis: July 17 Hashtag Holiday Calendar