Things I learned lately 28 Jun

• Half of all the plastic made since 1950 was made in the last 13 years.
• The blue java banana (pictured) tastes a bit like vanilla custard and has the consistency of ice cream. It is quite often served on ice cream.
• There are only around 30 cases of polio in the world thanks to vaccinations.
• The KFC Cheetos sandwich is now a thing.
• M. Night Shyamalan, director of the films The Sixth Sense and The Village, co-wrote the screenplay for the children’s movie Stuart Little.
• A hinny is a horse hybrid that is the result of mating a male horse and a female donkey (as opposed to a mule, which is the result of breeding a female horse and a male donkey).
• They're opening a new drive-in movie theatre in High River, AB. No, not 'closing', 'opening'.
• Lexie Alford, 21 years old, is the youngest person to have visited every country in the world.
• More than 25% of the gasoline sold in Columbia is used to make cocaine.
• The smoke from the northern Alberta wildfires at the end of May 2019 drifted all the way to Florida.