Today is February 22, 2022 (22-2-22) is a palindrome day.
Palindrome dates are also considered mathematical rarity for their impeccable symmetry.
The last palindromic date that we saw, however, was February 2, 2022 (earlier this month). Today’s date is not only a palindrome but also an ambigram.
Ambigram means, if you arrange the digits of today’s date, in vertical order, it would read the same upside down as well.
Apart from being a palindrome and an ambigram, February 22 is also a TWOday as the number 2 is repeated several times today.
The last double (both a palindrome and ambigram) was on February 12, 2021.
The next time we will see such a date will not happen for years. Apparently, it will be Feb 8, 2080 that will be both a palindrome and an ambigram.
In 2020, February 2 was also a palindromic date.
This millennium we have only 60 palindromic dates.
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Cherokee Legend Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help from anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some humans might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, p...
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