Things I learned lately 22 October

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  More Americans live above Toronto's latitude than there are Canadians in total.
• Vikings were chopping wood in Newfoundland in the year 1021.
• Blood donors in Sweden get a text thanking them for their donation, then later another text thanking them that their blood just benefitted a patient.
• There's a McDonalds in Hamburg (of course), Germany that has a float-thru. It's just a regular McDonalds with s street facing side, but they will also bring your food dockside. It's called McBoat.
• The 3 Musketeers bar originally had three pieces in one package, flavoured chocolate, strawberry and vanilla; hence the name. During WWII, rising costs and wartime restrictions on sugar saw the phasing out of the vanilla and strawberry pieces to leave only the more popular chocolate. Costing five cents when it was introduced, it was marketed as one of the largest chocolate bars available, one that could be shared by friends.
• Trump recently told Republican supporters not to vote to protest the 'stolen election'. He's a crafty one.
• The reason French Classic cuisine dominates is because they were the first ones to get wide spread fancy restaurants. This happened because they overthrew their nobility and all these out of work private cooks decided to make their own restaurants. By the time everyone else caught up all the masters were French and then taught everyone else French classical cuisine.
• This East German guy, Gunter Schabowski, was set to announce new travel being allowed outside of East Germany in a few days from the announcement, and one had to wait days to get and have the special travel visa authorized. He was to announce on live government TV. He was rushed and tired, going to the press conference, and had not read the official government press release before coming on live TV. An aide just handed him the paper, which he read on camera. He read the first part of the release, which said "the government now authorizes travel freedom" on live TV. A reporter then asked "so when does this take effect?" He had not had the chance to read about the travel limits and visa requirements yet, so instead of taking several live minutes to read the whole thing, Schabowski just mumbled "as far as I know...right away." This led to thousands of East Germans massing at the Wall and border checkpoints. People got angrier and angrier as they were refused passage. Finally, to avoid a riot or getting hurt themselves, one guard let some people on through. This led to a chain reaction. And so bye-bye, Berlin Wall.
• Politicians fought against child labour laws. They claimed it would ruin the economy.