So why doesn’t Thursday get all the love it deserves? It probably because it’s just that…Thursday. There are rarely interesting happenings that take place on Thursdays, so it tends to fall to the wayside and almost go unnoticed among the other exciting days of the week.

What do you say? Think we should show it some more love?

Here are some interesting facts about Thursdays:

In countries that use the Sunday-first convention, Thursday is defined as the fifth day of the week.

The name is derived from Old English Þūnresdæg and Middle English Thuresday meaning “Thor’s Day.”

The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter is sometimes used to represent Thursday.

In the Christian tradition, Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter — the day on which the Last Supper occurred. Also known as Sheer Thursday in the United Kingdom, it is traditionally a day of cleaning and giving out Maundy money there.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Thursdays are dedicated to the Apostles and Saint Nicholas.

In Buddhist Thailand Thursday is considered the “Teacher’s Day”, and it is believed that one should begin one’s education on this auspicious day. Thai students still pay homages to their teachers in specific ceremony always held on a selected Thursday. And graduation day in Thai universities, which can vary depending on each university, almost always will be held on a Thursday.

In the Thai solar calendar, the colour associated with Thursday is orange.

In the USSR of the 1970s and 1980s Thursday was the “Fish Day”, when the nation’s foodservice establishments were supposed to serve fish (rather than meat) dishes.

In some high schools in the United States during the 1950s and the 1960s, it was believed that if someone wore green on Thursdays, it meant that he or she was gay.

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Here are 10 cool facts about the human heart.

The heart works so hard, and yet we all too often take it for granted. Well, it’s high time for a shout out.

Here are 10 facts about the vital organ.

Number 10. Your heart doesn’t stop when you sneeze. One’s soul isn’t expelled from the body at that time, either. Both are part of an ancient myth, the origins of which have proven difficult to trace. 

Number 9. Broken hearts are physically possible. It’s said that emotional trauma can trigger the release of excess hormones. That surge is believed to cause the organ’s muscles to stop pulsing. It’s rare, but it does happen. 

Number 8. The heart isn’t really on the left side of the chest. It’s actually in the middle, right between the lungs. There is a bit of a leftward tilt to it, though. 

Number 7. Your heart can continue to beat without you. Upon removal, the organ will keep flexing if the oxygen supply is adequate, as it runs on its own electrical impulses. 

Number 6. The heart is a tireless worker. Thanks to its unique muscular makeup it doesn’t need to stop and take a rest. It comes down to mitochondria, the cellular stuff that serves as an energy source. Arm and leg muscles have 1 to 2 percent of it, while the heart has up to 35. 

Number 5. It moves to the rhythm. Studies show that the heart adjusts its rate according to the tempo and intensity of what’s playing. 

Number 4. Two hearts can beat as one. Researchers have found that people in a relationship often times end up having similar heart and breathing rates. The scientists also tested people not romantically involved. Among that group no such synchronicity was observed. 

Number 3. It doesn’t make those thumping sounds. That actually comes from the valves opening and closing. They’re kept busy around the clock controlling the flow of blood through the heart.

Number 2. Women’s are faster. The female heart beats more frequently than the male one does. This is due to its generally smaller size, requiring that it compensate for the amount of blood pushed with each pump. 

Number 1. Cats are good for the heart. It’s a scientific fact. Studies show that people who’ve had feline companions are much less likely to die of a heart attack or cardiovascular diseases.

What do you think is the most interesting thing about the heart?

Here are 10 amazing facts about color.

Number 10. Men and women see it differently. Females are more adept at detecting slight differences between closely related hues, while males tend to see them as being the same. Women have also been shown to be better equipped linguistically when it comes to describing them. 

Number 9. Blue is the world’s favorite color. Survey after survey has found that typically about half of those asked say they prefer it. That’s up to four times more love than the colors that end up in second place, like purple and green, get.

Number 8. The fear of colors has many names. Chromophobia and chromatophobia both describe the general disorder, while fears of many specific colors each have their own label. For example, cyanophobics are struck by feelings of terror when they see blue. Chlorophobics are afraid of greens. 

Number 7. Rainbows are much more than they appear. While they look like bands of a handful of colors to us, they actually contain more hues than there are stars in the sky. It’s the perception abilities of our eyes that limit the rainbow’s range. 

Number 6. Bulls aren’t really angered by red. What they’re responding to when the colored cape is flashed in front of them is the motion. Studies show they get just as worked up by the waving of flags in white and blue. 

Number 5. Cats see in color. It’s unclear where the belief that cats have black and white vision came from, but regardless of its origin, the information is wrong. They observe the world in color, the hues just aren’t as bright as those observed by humans.

Number 4. Color blindness is an overstatement. For nearly every person who is afflicted by it, it’s only colors in a given range that are affected. Most common differentiation problems occur with red, blue and green. There are cases of a complete inability to see color, but they’re quite rare. 

Number 3. Yellow is noticed first. In tests involving color and peripheral vision, the sunny color was noticed one and a quarter times faster than even attention grabbing red. That’s why school buses are yellow.

Number 2. Blue is best for gamers. A study in Japan showed that those who binged on video games in a blue environment had a more regular heartbeat than the people who played next to yellow or red walls. 

Number 1. Supermarket meat is usually artificially bright red in color. About 70 percent of what people see on the shelves has been treated with carbon monoxide. It reacts with the blood and imparts a vibrant, fresh-from-the-butcher color. 

What’s the most fascinating tidbit you know about color?