Top 10 facts about May

Children dance around the maypole in Rochester.

1. The month May was named for Maia, the Greek goddess of fertility. 
2. In any given year, no month ever begins or ends on the same day of the week as May does. 
3. The priests of Vulcan in Ancient Rome used to sacrifice a pregnant sow on the first of May. 
4. In 1644 maypoles were banned in England as a 'heathenish vanity'. Local officials who defiantly put them up could be fined five shillings a week. 
 5. In 1661, a maypole 123ft tall was put up in the Strand, London for the return of Charles II. Isaac Newton later used it as a support for his telescope.

6. S"Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.” (Anthony Trollope).

7. According to the roman poet Ovid: “Bad girls wed in May.”

8. According to old Cornish superstition, it is unlucky to buy a broom during the month of May.

9. No US president has ever died during the month of May. Harry S Truman and John F Kennedy are the only ones born in May.

10. In response to May 1 being Labour Day, the first World Tramps Congress in Argentina in 1966 named May 2 as the International Day of Idleness.

Source :  http://www.express.co.uk