80 Fun Facts About Friday

80 Fun Facts About Friday

Friday is named after the Norse god Freya.
Many corporate workplaces in the West have a “Casual Friday” or “Dress-down Friday” dress code where employees aren’t expected to turn up to work in their smart business attire, but instead in something more casual like jeans and a t-shirt.
In some places around the world, there is also an occurrence known as “Country and Western Friday,” which is similar to “Casual Friday,” but where employees will wear Cowboy attire rather than casual clothing.
In the U.S., the term “Black Friday” sometimes refers to the day after Thanksgiving, which is traditionally the first day of the Christmas shopping season.
The retail madness seen in stores across the U.S. on Black Friday first resulted in the death of a retail employee in 2008 when, upon opening doors to a 2,000-strong crowd of shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, the employee was trampled by to death by the rushing crowd.
Since then there have been multiple reports of people being shot, stabbed, beaten, trampled, and even pepper-sprayed during Black Friday sales.
In astrology, Friday is connected with the planet Venus and is symbolized by that planet’s symbol.
Friday the 13th is the only day with the most repeated occurrence in a year.
Friday the 13th is also regarded as the most feared day of the year as well as the most unlucky day of the year.
In the Christian calendar, the Friday before Easter is called Good Friday. Because it is the day Jesus Christ was crucified on across.
Statistically, you’re more likely to get a new employment if you apply on a Friday, because it has proven to be the most successful day for job seekers.
Casual Friday is a day you’re not expected to come to work in your usual smart office wears but rather in casual outfits, hence the name Casual Friday.
POETS Day in the UK is an occasional name for Friday, this day has nothing to do with people who write poems(poets), but rather ‘POETS’ in that day is an acronym for ‘Piss Of Tomorrow’s Saturday’.
The color associated with Friday is color Blue.
There is a term known as Friday Feeling, which highlights Friday being the last day of the workweek as a result people are happier and more excited than on other days.
Statistics show that Friday is the day on which most cyberattacks occur on the internet.
However, in Portuguese, also a language derived from Latin, the word for Friday is “Sexta-feira,” meaning “sixth day of liturgical celebration” and is derived from the Latin “Feria Sexta” which was used in religious texts where it was forbidden to consecrate days to pagan gods.
In Japanese, the word for Friday is formed from the words Kinsei, meaning Venus (which literally translates as “gold + water”), and yōbi, meaning day.
A popular American acronym is “TGIF,” which means “Thank God It’s Friday.”
In the U.K. and Australia, Friday is sometimes referred to by the acronym “POETS Day,” which stands for “Piss Off Early Tomorrow’s Saturday.”
The term “Friday’s Syndrome” and the term “Friday Feeling” refer to Friday often being the last day of the working week for people and therefore people feeling more relaxed and easy-going on a Friday.
Black Friday shopping has always had accidents or deaths or one other incidents happening every other year, this is due to the large crowd rushing in to retail shops all at once.
Friday is associated with the planet Venus.
Friday and Venus are both represented by the astrological signs Taurus and/or Libra.
Statistics also show that most wars all over the world were declared/started on Fridays. Nobody knowns why, probably because the leaders want to keep people(soldiers?) busy during the weekend.
It is believed to be very unlucky to begin a trip on the sea on a Friday.
It is believed that the day Friday was actually ‘created’ by the ancient Babylonians, primarily because they were obsessed with the number seven.
Friday the 13th, although considered lucky in some parts of the world, is often a day of superstition for most people in the western world, and the fear of Friday the 13th is known as paraskavedekatriaphobia.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were born together on Friday the 13th June 1986.
In the maritime world, it is considered highly unlucky to begin a voyage on a Friday.
Friday is also associated with the astrological signs of Libra and Taurus.
In the Thai Solar Calendar, blue is the color associated with Friday.
In Christianity, Good Friday is the Friday before Easter and it commemorates the day of Jesus’ crucifixion.
In 1719 the Daniel Defoe novel Robinson Crusoe, the main character meets a native to the island he’s stranded on, with whom he cannot communicate at first. Crusoe and calls him Friday as this is the day of the week when he meets him.
The expression “Man Friday” comes from the character Friday in the novel Robinson Crusoe, and is used to describe a particularly loyal or competent male personal assistant.
It’s not the busiest shopping day of the year. The Saturday before Christmas is!
According to a 2009 article published in TIME magazine, the phrase “Black Friday” was first used in the 1960s by Philadelphia newspapers referring to the huge rush of crowds to stores on the day after Thanksgiving.
The current “Black Friday” term first became used widely in the 1990’s and refers to retailers reaching profitability or in the black – black ink, as opposed to losses which were originally recorded in red ink.
Not all the best deals are offered on Black Friday:
Black Friday is still the best day for deals on TVs, tablets, appliances and jewelry.
The days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday capture 20 percent of all holiday online shopping.
For 2017, Amazon and Walmart are expected to dominate online sales. While the No. 3 spot is still up for grabs between Best Buy and Target.
On average, shoppers will wait 2.5 hours in line for a deal.
The average shopper spent over $900 in 2016 on Black Friday and expected to spend nearly $1,000 this year.
Black Friday sales declined only once in recent years. It was 2008 during the Great Recession. Only 263,820 seasonal workers were hired in 2008 – staggering low compared to the record 764,750 workers hired in 2013.
In Old English it was initially called ‘Day Of Frigg’, Frigg being the Old English version of the Norse god Freya.
Over time the name has had to metamorphized into what we have today; a single word known as Friday.
There is a Friday that every shopper in the US(and now many parts of the world) loves and that Friday is called Black Friday. Black Friday is a day that shops, malls, stores and other retail outlets set up massive discount in prices of most of their products. This day also marks the day most shops record the highest sales ever made in a day, all thanks to the discounts. Black Fridays always occur a day after Thanksgiving has been celebrated in the US.
Statistically, there are more accidents on Fridays than on any other day of the week, this is probably connected with people rushing to get home to start the weekend early or the excitement that comes with TGIF. Certainly, this contributes to why Friday is one of the most unlucky day of the week.
‘Paraskavedekatriaphobia‘ is the phobia for Friday the 13th. So, if you’re scared of the most unlucky day of the year, then you’re having Paraskavedekatriaphobia.
In many parts of the world, the name for Friday has references to the planet Venus.
Portuguese speaking countries have the meaning of the name of Friday translated to Sixth Day, this is the same for many other languages too.
The English name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning “Day of Frige.” This is as a result of the Old English goddess Frigg (an Anglo-Saxon interpretation of the Norse goddess Freya) being associated with the Roman goddess Venus.
This is the same within several other languages, including the Old High German Frīatag and Modern German Frietag, as well as Vrijdag in Dutch.
In most languages that are derived from Latin, Friday is derived from the words “dies Veneris” (day of Venus), like “Vendredi” is French, “Venerdì” in Italian, and “Viernes” in Spanish.

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