Things I learned lately 20 Dec

• The Japanese celebrate Christmas with Christmas cake (similar to strawberry shortcake) and KFC. Japanese people are all about parties around Christmas. Christmas Eve is the Japanese equivalent of Valentine's Day. It's the most romantic day of the year. "Meri Kurisumasu!"
• Condor, a German airline, flies a summer seasonal route between Frankfurt and Whitehorse, in the Yukon. It's a popular German destination.
• If you order food for pickup from Swiss Chalet, they frown upon driving up to the takeout window to get it, even if it's all ready to go, bought and paid for. The takeout window is only for food ordered at a drive up kiosk.
• When you go to the Swiss Chalet web site, they don't show you any prices until you pick a store, choose a pickup time and start filling your cart.
• Apparently Aussies love to make up ridiculous fake facts about Australia for tourists and other Aussies will immediately chime in and corroborate the fake fact. So basically, beware of anything an Aussie says to you, especially if they're in groups.Contact-less transactions made up 19.5% of the 21 billion transactions in the retail space in 2018 in Canada.
• Trump keeps flaunting the record stock market as an accomplishment, but 60% of Americans say it doesn't help them.
• If Calgary had as many McDonalds restaurants per capita as Orlando Florida, we'd have over 200 of them.
• The sprawling homes boomers bought are not very appealing to the latest generations, not just due to their size, but also their sustainability and price. This could create a massive real estate problem in the future.