Here’s 5 interesting things you can talk about this week with your family, friends and co-workers!
1: Did you know that Honeydale was originally called Green Meadows? A local storekeeper named George F. Beach started keeping honeybees, so the railroad men that worked on the tracks started calling it Honeydale. The name was made official in 1910.
2: King Henry VII of England first officially declared February 14, 1537, as the holiday of St. Valentine’s Day.
3: The term “soap opera” is derived from the fact that the primary sponsors of the early genre were soap companies.
4: The red coloring in Cardinals comes from carotenoid pigments in the fruits and seeds they eat.
5: Titanic, directed by Canada’s James Cameron, is considered the most financially successful romance movie of all time, albeit a tragic romance, having made over $2.2 billion since its release in 1997.
