Things I learned lately 30 Apr

• The plastics industry invented disposable plastic containers in 1956 as a means to increase profits.
  
  
  
• Jif now sells squeeze peanut butter. I'm sorry, but I draw the line at squeeze peanut butter.
• On 25 April, India saw over 350,000 new Covid cases in ONE DAY. That is more than triple the highest peak during their first wave in autumn 2020.
• Honda said it will stop selling gas-powered vehicles by 2040. The automaker expects 40% of its sales globally to be comprised of battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles by 2030, followed by 80% in 2035, and 100% of sales by 2040.
• Joe Walsh almost starred in his own NBC sitcom in 2000, but negotiations feel through. Description: "The plot in the hybrid scripted/improv sitcom follows a dull accountant who finds out that he enjoys living in the fast lane when he goes to work for a rock star. Walsh would play the rock star."
• Alan Parsons was the engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second. All four members of Ambrosia played on the first Alan Parsons Project album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, which was recorded soon after Ambrosia's first album. He also produced Al Stewart's two biggest albums including Year of the Cat and produced Pilot's hit song Magic.
• Donald Duck's nephews in the cartoons are named Huey, Dewey, and Louie. But not everywhere. In France they're named Riri, Fifi and Loulou. In Germany they're Tick, Trick and Track. In Finland, they're Tupu, Hupu and Lupu.
• When the New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo) opened in September 1906, people visiting the Primates’ House encountered a startling sight. There, amid the cages full of exotic animals, they found a black human man. Ota Benga, who was a member of the Mbuti pygmy tribe from what was then known as the Congo Free State.