Sunday Friday facts

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In the Middle Ages, Catholic women were prohibited from having sex on Sundays, Wednesdays, or Fridays, on feast days, while fasting for Lent or Advent or while "impure" (menstruation, pregnancy, 40 days after giving birth & while nursing). Everything but missionary position was considered sodomy

Every day except Sundays, Christmas, and Good Friday, a gun is fired at 1 o'clock from Edinburgh Castle.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 18 of the best facts about Sunday Friday I managed to collect.

1. In the Middle Ages, married couples were not to have sex on Sundays (the Lord’s Day), nor on Thursdays or Fridays (which were used to prepare for Communion). There were also lengthy periods of required abstinence around holy events (like Lent) which could last from 15 to 60 days.

2. Any month that starts on a Sunday contains a Friday the 13th, and there is at least one Friday the 13th in every calendar year.

3. Why elections are held on Thursdays. As most people were paid on Fridays they didn't want drunken people voting, also they did not want Sunday sermons influencing people's decisions.

4. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederacy on Palm Sunday and Abraham Lincoln was assassinated four days later on Good Friday

5. In North Carolina, you can only hunt crows on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday while in season but you may hunt crows on most major holidays unless it falls on a Sunday.

6. Any month that begins on a Sunday will have a Friday 13th.

7. The Saturday after Good Friday and before Easter Sunday is called Holy Saturday.

8. Every month that start with a Sunday has Friday the 13th.

9. The color of the twist ties/plastic tabs keeping a bread bag sealed tell you the day the bread was baked: Monday-blue, Tuesday-green, Thursday-red, Friday-white, and Saturday-yellow. Wednesday and Sunday are usually not delivery days and aren’t assigned a color.

10. Medival church rules restricted sex: on your wedding night, if your wife was pregnant, menstruating, or breastfeeding, on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday, during daylight hours, if you were naked, and only if you wanted a child.

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In addition to the infamous 1972 event in Derry, Northern Ireland that U2 sang about, there are at least 18 other events called "Bloody Sunday" around the world. It's by far the most "Bloody" day, with Bloody Friday second with 9.

A leap year is so named because while a fixed date in a normal year advances one day of the week from one year to the next, in a leap year it advances two days, hence the “leap”. Take Christmas: 2013 Wednesday, 2014 Thursday, 2015 Friday, 2016... Sunday! - source

Any month starting with Sunday will have a Friday on the 13th date. - source

Brunei has the strangest weekends, with Friday and Sunday off . . . but people go back to work on the Saturday in between

Months that begin with a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in them. - source

2017s February will have 4 Sundays, 4 Mondays, 4 Tuesdays, 4 Wednesdays, 4 Thursdays, 4 Fridays and 4 Saturdays. This happens once every 823 years