During Smarties Day, which happened Oct. 8th, Librarians Amelia Lewis and Lauren Folly gave out smarties to students who shared fun facts with them.
The reason they did this, Folly said, was to get students to think about their scientific memory.
“It was actually International Smarty Day, so we thought it would be fun to get students thinking about their scientific memory and facts.” Folly said. “And if they didn’t have a fact, then they needed to find one.“
Some of Lewis’s favorite fun facts included how bananas are berries and strawberries and raspberries aren’t. Another one of her favorite fun facts was that snow on Venus is metal.
“We learned all kinds of stuff,” Lewis said. “Snow on Venus is metallic because of all the chemicals and other stuff in the atmosphere, and its metallic flakes that come out.”
One of Folly’s favorite fun facts was that there are more cows than people in Botswana.
“I’m not totally sure what (the fact) was but I know it has something to do with cows outweighing the people in Botswana.”
With the flowing information of fun facts and all the sugar rushes, Smarties Day is a day where all the random facts students learn are able to be shared and given to other people to cherish and remember where they got them from.
