Math nerds, rejoice! Today is March 14, represented numerically as 3.14 or Pi Day.
Before you go and ruin your dinner by eating an assortment of baked pastries in celebration, we reluctantly inform you that pi may not be as special as your middle school math teacher said.
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YouTube user Vi Hart created this informative "Anti-Pi Rant," in which she explains the many reasons why the number pi is not that special at all.
Regardless, we'll keep Pi Day around, mostly because it provides an excuse to indulge in pie, but also because the House of Representatives supports it.
To celebrate Pi Day, here's a video of someone getting a pie to the face, in slow motion.
BONUS: 12 People Having a Rotten Pi Day
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