Things I learned lately 7 Sep

• Jeff Bezos makes the equivalent of $4 million. Per hour.
• A reporter asked seasoned yacht crew that were at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat show, if they were rich, would they buy a boat. The answer, overwhelmingly, was 'no'. Owners can expect to pay 10% of the purchase price annually on operating and maintaining a yacht.
• The most commonly spoken language in Coney Island is Russian.
• Aproximately 60 million electric bikes were produced in 2017. In France, 1 in 5 bikes sold are electric; in Germany, it's 1 in 3; in Holland, it's 1 in 2. (pictured: the French made Moustache Lundi) 
• Boscombe Pier, located in Bournemouth UK, has a mini golf where the golf balls are made of fish food and at the 18th hole, they fall through into the ocean and dissolve.
• Phrases that don't mean what they used to: riding shotgun (is just what it sounds like - helping a stagecoach driver by being ready to shoot at any would be robbers); highway robbery (you're literally being robbed); painting the town red (for real, as in willful property damage); read you the riot act (if this was happening in 1715, the police were one step from arrest you for being part of an assembled group of 12 or more); baker's dozen (started by bakers who wanted to avoid getting their hands chopped of for selling small or low quality bread); deadline (a line inside of the area where Federal prisoners of war were kept during the civil war. If a prisoner attempted to cross the line, they would be shot).
• Amazon is in the running to buy the Landmark movie theatre chain. Don't know if that would include Canadian Landmark brand cinemas.
• The American Legion would prefer if Trump spent the money for his big military parade on veterans. The parade has been pushed off to 2019 for now.
• It is not a good idea to drink your own pee as a survival strategy.