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8 Interesting Facts About April — You Did Not Know

BloggingMyWay
2 min readApr 15, 2022

1 Of course, one of the most well-known dates of April, is April Fools’ Day on the 1st of the month. No one is sure where this originated from, but some believe it to be inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer’s story in “Canterbury Tales” called “Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”

2 April also only had 29 days, but a 30th day was added when Julius Caesar established the Julian calendar.

3 The etymology behind the word “April” comes from the verb “aperire,” which means “to open.” It’s commonly believed that the word refers to the season of trees and flowers begin to “open” or bloom.

4 We know it is the fourth month of the year, but that’s only by the Gregorian calendar that we adhere to now. It was previously the fifth month in the earlier Julian calendar.

5 On April 15, 1912, the famous Titanic ship hit an iceberg and sunk on her first and only voyage.

6 After a 1,500 year break, the first Olympics of the modern era took place on April 6, 1896, in Athens.

7 April is also the month that the birds migrate north and settle down for the summer to mate.

8 There are two zodiac signs in April. Aries, which is until April 19th, and Taurus, which is April 20th and onwards.

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