Heads-UP! #62: From Golden Eagles To The Origins Of Cos Lettuce

Welcome, welcome!

This week we’ve got a bunch of cool and interesting facts coming your way, so get reading!

  • A foodie checks their Instagram account 18 times a day – LF (source: Instagram during Udecam

  • Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun. – Victoria F
  • In an attempt to help conservation of the Golden Eagle, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Edinburgh have collaborated to map the genome of the majestic American icon. – Bill
  • There are “green” writing fonts: they are typographies created and designed to save ink (up to 20% savings). They are pierced with holes or made of fine lines and doubled. The two main ones are Ryman Eco and Ecofont. – Lisa

  • The word “guys” is 400 years old. At first, the word’s definition was quite narrow: Guy referred to an effigy of Guy Fawkes, the infamous Brit who tried and failed to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. The word’s meaning radiated outward from there, encompassing larger and larger groups. It started to be used to signify any effigy, then any fearsome person and/or any man. And then, in the plural, it came to mean—in the U.S. sometime around 100 years ago—just about anyone – Cécile
  • As the story goes, the ancient Romans discovered lettuce on the Aegean Island of Cos—which is why Romaine lettuce is called “Cos” lettuce in other parts of the world. – Ayesha