Things I learned lately - 28 Sep

• A McDonald's burger patty is cooked for 40 seconds using a two-sided grill.
• We now have a spacecraft 30km from the surface of a comet. Soon, we will land a probe on that comet.
• Canada has 102 CF-18 Hornet fighter jets. The US has 1227 of them.
• Kanye West stopped performing on stage in Sydney because a couple of people in the crowd wouldn't stand up at his command. They were handicapped. He actually waited for confirmation from security guards that they couldn't stand before he sang again.
• The entire current solar energy capacity (not potential) of the US is just over 4.5 Gigawatts. China plans to have over 70 Gigawatts of solar on the grid by 2017.
• The cost of solar panels has declined 80% since 2008.
• The gelatin in Jello is made from the collagen taken from pig and cow skin and bones.
• There's a teddy bear in every Dutch police car in case something troubling happens to a child.
• If you stare at another person in Germany, people will think you're either uneducated or mentally ill.
• The reason cashews are sold shelled is because between the shell and the seed there exists a layer of urushiol, which is poisonous to some people. Cashews are roasted or boiled / steamed before sale.
• Dark chocolate feeds your body's good bacteria.