- Monday’s child is “fair of face”.
- 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.
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