Things I learned lately 19 Oct

• In 1875, Los Angeles was a town of around 8,000 people, and there were no palm trees. The palm trees were added to make people want to buy land in southern California, but it wasn't LA's developers or planners who came up with the idea, it was the French.
• Seattle has banned plastic straws. 1st major city in America to do so.
• You should avoid charging a lithium ion phone battery to 100%, avoid keeping it charging once at 100% and try not to let the battery get below 20%. In fact, the higher a charge you can maintain on the battery the better. As in, keep it above 50% if practical.
• Microbeads are now banned from toiletries in Canada.
• Calgary and London (UK) are almost on the same latitude.
• Dalhart Texas is closer to the state capitols of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming than it's own state capitol.
• US states with highest restaurants per capita. Alabama: 6.3 per 10,000 people. Nebraska: 5.4. West Virginia: 5.3. Oklahoma: 5.3. Tennessee: 5.2. Indiana & DC: 5. Georgia & Missouri & South Carolina: 4.9.
• Stockholm's Triwa watch company make some of their watch bands out of recycled plastic, and a limited line of watches out of melted down illegal firearms (pictured).
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has 1478 adult detention centres across the US. That doesn't include Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities near the Mexican border.
• Young Trump staff can't get dates because everyone hates them.