Le mois d'octobre, église de Bagnot (Wikimedia commons, public domain)
When is the most productive time of year? Who was the first person to break the sound barrier? Your questions answered in John Lloyd's October facts
- During the three-month breeding season starting in October, the greatest density of wildlife per square metre in the world occurs on the island of South Georgia.
- A survey of 1.8 million office projects and 28 million individual tasks found that the most productive time of the year is 11am on a Monday in October.
- In October 2008, inflation in Zimbabwe reached 231,000,000 per cent.
- The First World War officially ended on 3rd October 2010.
- 8th October is World Octopus Day.
- On 9th October 2013, NASA’s Juno spacecraft travelled round the Earth at 50 times the speed of a bullet.
- On 12th October 2017, Austrian police arrested a man in a shark costume for breaking a newly enacted ban on wearing face-coverings in public.
- On the evening of 13th October 1947, Chuck Yeager got drunk and broke two ribs falling off a horse. The next day, he became the first person to break the sound barrier.
