To celebrate the launch of It’s A Stampede!, every day for the next year I will be presenting a totally informative, yet totally useless fact under the banner heading: ‘On this day in geekdom’.

Yep, that’s 365 facts!

Here’s today’s slice of geekdom…

April 2nd – On this day in 2016, Slashfilm reports that Batman V Superman (2013) suffers a record 81% drop-off at the box office, during its second weekend of release. The drop-off is worrying but ultimately does not stop the movie from being a hit when it closes later that year.

More tomorrow…