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International Joke Day

International Joke Day is held on July 1. Take the opportunity to get the jokes started today. This event in the first decade of the month July is annual.

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Any joke documented from the past has been saved through happenstance rather than design.

Firstly, jokes get old but the facts will always be true.

Secondly… If you look up “joke facts” in Google, you mostly get a bunch of facts that are supposed to be used as jokes as a sort of clean comedy for children and parochial venues.

A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be taken seriously. Usually it takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line. It is in the punch line that the audience becomes aware that the story contains a second, conflicting meaning.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

International Day of Parliamentarism on June 30 (A/RES/72/278);

Social Media Day on June 30;

Meteor Watch Day on June 30;

International Tartan Day on July 1 (Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events);