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On this day, in 1870… the U.S. government looked at CHRISTMAS & said: “Yup, we’re definitely gonna be too hungover to work on that day…” And they passed a LAW making Christmas an Official Federal Holiday.
Even since then, Americans have PROUDLY let productivity slide from December 23rd until at least January-ish…
But Christmas is just ONE STOP on the weird, winding road of US Federal Holidays…. Some in the past have got Re-named… Some were abandoned…. and a few others were Gambled away during FDR’s Poker Night in the Situation Room.
That's why today, in honor of Christmas becoming a federal holiday…. we’re doing a special:“Patriotic PTO” Edition of Plenty of Twenty!
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