Things I learned lately 23 Apr

• The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.
• Boring, Oregon and Dull, Scotland have been sister cities since 2012.
• Bobbi Gibb ran the Boston Marathon in 1966 at age 23 as an unregistered runner because according to the race director "Women were not physiologically capable of running marathon distances and that under the rules that governed amateur sports, women were not allowed to run more than a mile and a half competitively." She hid in the bushes near the starting pen. After the starting gun fired, she waited until about half the pack had started and then jumped into the race. The men soon realized that she was a woman. Encouraged by their friendliness and support, she removed her sweatshirt. To her delight and relief, the crowds cheered to see a woman running. She finished in 3 hours, 21 minutes and 40 seconds, ahead of two-thirds of the runners.
• Apparently an Ethiopian airliner flew through a swarm of grasshoppers and the windscreen was so dirty the pilot had to open the cockpit window and scrape some off by hand while flying.