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April 8: International Things That Rhyme With 'Bat' Day
- 563 BCE - Buddha is born. Under a tree he sat.
- 432 BCE - Artemus of Capadocia introduces kitten huffing to the world when he huffs a small cat.
- 73 CE - Pliny the Elder records the first instance of fortune telling through analysis of scat.
- 881 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles III is given the nickname Charles the Fat as all the good nicknames were already taken. And that is that.
- 1611 - A new sport is introduced when Swedish people use a cannon to launch a rat.
- 1656 - Rembrandt buys a can of glossy brown paint only to find it is matte.
- 1885 - Industrialist Andrew Carnegie thinks his secretary tells him that he is a milliner. So he makes a hat.
- 1935 - FDR signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, then dances a jig and falls flat.
- 1998 - Another explosion occurs in the usually serene inlet of Michael Bay, sounding like this: 'splat'.
- 2006 - Conservapedia is founded and its editors immediately make such valid claims as 'the Earth is flat'.
- 2011 - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal proves himself to be a prat.