Past medical studies found a 20% increase in heart attacks on Mondays.
The 80’s-era Bangles’ hit song “Manic Monday” was written by Prince.
There are 53 Mondays on the calendar this year.
There were only 52 Mondays last year.
The name “Monday” comes from Greek and/or Latin phrases, both meaning “Day of the Moon” or “Moon’s Day”.
Jimmy Buffet’s song “Come Monday” was written for his wife, because he missed her while playing weekend shows.
One study claims that 50% of employees are late to work on Monday mornings.
Worker productivity studies showed that an average of only 3.5 hours of actual work are conducted on Mondays.
The first Monday after Thanksgiving, deemed “Cyber Monday”, is not the busiest online shopping day of the year, despite claims otherwise.
“I Don’t Like Mondays”, the title of a 1979 hit song, comes from a phrase quoted by Brenda Spencer, the perpetrator of a school shooting which killed 2 adults and wounded 8 children.
The Carpenters recorded their hit song “Rainy Days and Mondays” in 1971 and then saw it climb to #2 on the charts.
Monday Night Football is one of the longest running prime-time commercial network television series, starting in 1970 and currently contracted to go through 2021.
