Gustave Flaubert wrote that "an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute." So, if you have boundless passion for contemplating the immeasurable, a full day should offer plenty of time. August 8 (8/8) is Infinity Day since the numeral 8 looks like a tilted ∞, the common symbol for infinity first popularized in 17th-century math books. But the concept of infinity itself represents an idea much older, inherent in the countless spiritual traditions that revere eternal gods or outline endless life cycles.
It s ∞ Day!
Today in History
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Speed skaters in the Gangneung Oval, Pyeongchang, South Korea
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Mute swans
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Combating extinction with citizen science
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Deep in the North Woods wetlands
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Mount Rainier National Park
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The ruins of a Maya superpower
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Womens History Month
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Why’s it called a spelling ‘bee,’ anyhow?
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Whale hello there!
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World Population Day
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Labor Day parade in 1915 Chicago
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Hitsujiyama Park, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
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Sunbeams across Tartu County, Estonia
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Happy winter solstice!
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Przewalskis horses, Hustai National Park, Mongolia
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Great horned owl fledglings
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The Cutty Sark turns 150
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World Giraffe Day
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Hay bales in North Yorkshire, England
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Cappadocia, Türkiye
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Wallabies at sunrise, Australia
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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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Full moon
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A new tradition in London
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Gunnerside, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England
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International Day of Peace
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Sequential images of a total solar eclipse
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Panda Day
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I ll call for pen and ink
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An island hopper s paradise
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