Things I learned lately 28 Sep

• Before the English referred to the season autumn, they called it harvest.
• The US government has banned its employees from using Huawei and ZTE phones and tablets because it believes in a high risk of covert exploitation by the Chinese government. If China has the ability to monitor device content and use, this is an extreme security risk to government employees and what they know / do.
• The Munich International Airport has both a brewery (pictured) and a skating rink inside.
• New York City has painted at least 6.7 million square feet of rooftop white in the past nine years. (To reflect heat)
• 99% of wasabi sold in the US is fake. The majority of wasabi consumed in the US is a mix of horseradish, hot mustard, and green dye.
• Only eight restaurants in the entire US serve real Kobe beef. Kobe beef costs more than $20 an ounce, so if you're purchasing something supposedly made of Kobe beef and isn't absurdly expensive, it probably isn't.
• QAnon, a group of right-wing conspiracy theory followers, believe that some elites, including celebrities, Democratic Party leaders, and the deep state, are the source of all evil and that Trump — with help from secret allies including special counsel Robert Mueller — will expose and defeat these forces. Lately they posited that Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are pedophiles and that the Mexican cement company Cemex is helping to run a child sex ring.
• The biggest market for red wine in the world, is China. By 2019, China will consume 4.3 billion litres of wine. That's billion. 75% of that will be red wine.
• When you played into that Columbia House free CDs scam, the artists didn't get any royalties for the free CDs.