Here’s 5 interesting things you can talk about this week with your family, friends and co-workers!
1: Did you know that the famous “Pansy Patch” in St. Andrews, constructed in the French Romantic Revival style with its stucco walls and tower, was built in 1913?
2: Bees have two large compound eyes and three smaller ocelli eyes on top of their head used to detect light and navigate using the sun.
3: A popular folk tale suggests BBQ comes from the French phrase “from beard to tail,” referring to a whole animal roasted on a spit. However, this is largely an urban legend, as academic historians link the word firmly to the Spanish barbacoa.
4: Right as the Sun completely sinks below the horizon, you might rarely catch an optical phenomenon called the “green flash”. This fleeting flash of green light happens for just a few seconds when the atmosphere acts as a prism, separating the light into the visual spectrum.
5: The top album of June 1996 was Metallica’s “Load”, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.
