Every year on October 6, the whole world celebrates the Day of the Mad Hatter, a bright character in Lewis Carroll’s famous fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland”.

It was on this day in 1986 that a group of programmers from the city of Boulder, Colorado, decided to celebrate an unusual event by performing inexplicably absurd acts with cylinders on their heads. They were inspired by John Tenniel’s silly illustrations for the fairy tale, which showed the Hatter wearing a cylindrical hat with the mysterious numbers 10 and 6. More likely, they meant the price of the hat: 10 shillings, 6 pence. But colleagues decided to use it to determine the date of the celebration: the 6th of the month, the 10th of the month.

In 2 years, thanks to the local press, the idea was supported by all Boulder residents. And later, the celebration successfully spread throughout the United States and even beyond its borders.

This event is a great opportunity to get away from monotonous everyday life for a moment and go a little beyond it. For many, such oddities help to avoid depression and depression, to look at life from a different perspective. The purpose of the holiday is to prove that you don’t need to be afraid to appear ridiculous in the eyes of others.