Fun Facts about March!!

1. Each year March and June end on the same day of the week.
2. March is the first month of spring!
3. March is the first month of the new year for the Romans! Their years lasted 10 months and started in March and ended in December.
4. One of the most popular March hobbies is making brackets for March Madness
5. March 13 is daylight savings!
6. March 14 is Pi day! 3.14 3/14!
7. March 20: The sun shines on the equator for the Vernal Equinox, giving us a near 50-50 split of day and night.
8. March 28 is candy discount day! (Day after Easter)
9. The name March comes from the Roman god of war, Mars.
10. March’s birthstones are aquamarine and the bloodstone.

Other Miscellaneous Facts!

1. Elephants drink an equivalent of 800 glasses of water a day.
2. Bears do not go to the bathroom for months when they are hibernating.
3. The average teenager knows about 60,000 words.
4. At Cornell University you can major in Wine, more technically known as the cultivation of grapes and the science of winemaking.
5. Spotify’s most streamed song is “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey.
6. A single cloud can weigh 1 million pounds.
7. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
8. A sneeze travels at about 100 miles per hour.
9. Ketchup was used as medicine back in the 1930s.
10. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body.
11. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!