Things I learned lately 9 Oct

• The Burj Khalifa tower is so tall, if you watched the sun set at its base, then took one of their super fast elevators to get to the top, you could watch the sun set about 3 minutes later than when you saw it set at the base.
• The ISS sees 16 sunrises every 24 hours.
• The first structures to surpass the height of the Egyptian pyramids were cathedrals. Starting with the Lincoln Cathedral in England (1311), St Olaf's church in Tallinn (1590), St Mary's in Stralsund(1600s), Strasbourg cathedral (1647), St Nikolai church in Hamburg (1874), Rouen cathedral in France (1876), Cologne Cathedral (1880), and then finally, the first non-church, the Washington Monument (1884).
• Cats can be taught to imitate humans very precisely. This includes turning around, touching objects, opening drawers, rubbing their face on an object, sitting up on their hind legs, in the exact manner that they watched a human do it.
  
  
  
• Ireland's courts ruled that bread used by Subway in their sandwiches contains so much sugar (10% of the weight of the flour) that it can't legally be defined as bread. The courts were involved because Subway was trying to get their sandwiches classified as a 'staple food' which is tax-exempt.
• Taking a cue from the character’s name, Tim Curry began the stage production of The Rocky Horror Show by playing Frank N. Furter as German. Then he heard a woman on a bus speaking with a particularly posh accent and decided that Frank should sound like the Queen.
• You can buy American hot dogs in a can or a glass jar in the EU.