Today I Found Out

What a Blue Moon Really is and How the Expression “Once in a Blue Moon” Came About (2015x120)

Air date: Sep 03, 2015

→Subscribe for new vide→“Yf they say the mone is blewe/We must believe that it is true.” It appears to be a reference to priests at the time making statements and expecting the average person to believe they were true, regardless of how ridiculous the statement was. This is something like the original usage of the “moon is made of green cheese”, in that case referring to the fact that only fools or gullible people would believe that. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/the-origin-of-the-phrase-once-in-a-blue-moon/ Sources: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/once-in-a-blue-moon.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_Almanac_full_moon_names#Farmers.27_Almanacs http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/moon/3304131.html?showAll=y&c=y http://www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=a_hiscock1999 http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/07jul_bluemoon/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon Image Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Zeusandhera_-_Lunar_Spiral_Cycle_(by-sa).jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Northwest_Crown_Fire_Experiment.png