Things I learned lately 25 Sep

• Charlie, from the Willie Wonka story, was supposed to be a black kid, according to a revelation from Roald Dahl's widow. 
• In the first 2 billion years of the earth's estimated 4.54 billion year history, there was no atmospheric oxygen.
• Near the East coast of Asia, on the Hunt-Lenox Globe, which was made in 1504, appear the words HC SVNT DRACONES, which means, "Here be dragons." It is guessed this refers to the komodo dragons in the Indonesian islands.
• The Eckert IV map projection does a better job reducing the gross distortion of land masses of the Mercator map projection we're used to. In particular, Africa, Australia and South America are much more representative of their real size.
  
  
  
• The first jigsaw puzzles were chopped up maps of Europe to teach kids geography.
• Point Nemo, a place in the Pacific Ocean, is so far away from land in every direction, that ISS astronauts get closer to it as they fly overhead.
• 43 years ago, Voyager I captured an historic photo. Earth and the moon in a single photo.
• As of 20 Sep 2020, If you subtract the number of deaths and recovered from Covid from the number of total cases, you're left with around 4 million Americans that are infected. In Canada, that number is 9,453.
• At least 36 people have died, more than 1,100 homes have been destroyed and almost 5,000,000 acres have been burned by fires in California, Washington and Oregon.
• The reason we poop out the corn we eat is because we can't digest the outer skin of corn, which is made of resilient cellulose.