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Animals of Falkland Islands Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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You discover the Magellanic penguin, Southern elephant seal, and Upland goose as the iconic wildlife species throughout the Falkland Islands. You note that islanders commonly keep sheep, cattle, and domestic cats as their primary animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
Invented in 1973 by newspaper columnist Harold Pullman Coffin, who felt Americans had too many days celebrating things. His idea: a day where nobody celebrates anything. It lasted exactly one year before other people started creating holidays on the same day to spite him. The irony is the entire point.