Every year, primarily in Commonwealth countries, the day after Christmas is a legal holiday.

It's a rather odd holiday in that it doesn't celebrate anything or any one in particular.

Most people who celebrate the day have no clue what the origins of the holiday are,

and many of the people who think they know the origins of the day are wrong.

Learn more about Boxing Day and how the day after Christmas became a holiday on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Growing up as an American, Boxing Day just wasn't a thing.

When I first heard about Boxing Day, I had no clue what Boxing had to do with it.

Did somebody really dedicate an entire day to punching each other in the middle of the ring?

And if there was a boxing day, was there a wrestling day? And by the way, if so, that would be awesome.

An entire day devoted to celebrating pile drivers and figure four leg locks is something that I could really get behind.

It would be the one day a year you could super kick your best friend through a plate glass window and it would be socially acceptable.

And Lutrudor Mass would be totally in fashion. But I digress. As I began

traveling the world, I was able to spend several boxing days in places that actually celebrated

Boxing Day. I would ask people who celebrated Boxing Day, usually Brits, Canadians, or Australians,

exactly what Boxing Day was about.

The answers I got were all over the place.

One common explanation was that Boxing Day

was the day that Christmas decorations were put back into boxes. And at first

glance this seemed reasonable. There were boxes involved and it had something to do with Christmas, so it appeared to check out.

However, I got different explanations from different people.

Another explanation I received was that Boxing Day had to do with people putting gifts they

received back into boxes so they could be returned. That didn't seem quite as

legit as it seemed like a rather modern development. I even had one British guy tell me that Boxing Day was in fact

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