Things I learned lately 20 November

• Halle Berry trained in multiple fighting disciplines and martial arts for 2.5 years, anywhere from 4 to 6 days per week, 4 to 6 hours per day to get prepared to fight in her new movie 'Bruised'.
• A wonderful tale with a surprise at the end. 
• Not many music artists own their own music masters. Some that do include U2, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, LL Cool J, Ciara, Frank Ocean, Rihanna, and Jay-Z. 
• A felony domestic violence conviction is THE leading predictor of future violent crime among men in the US.
• The US has 120 guns per 100 people. Canada has 35. The UK has 5. The number of gun deaths in the US is 120 per 100,000 people. In Canada it's 2.
• Carson Productions (Yes, the one started by Johnny Carson) produced the popular film 'The Big Chill'.
• The iPhone may have revolutionized smart phone design in 2007, but it was not the first smartphone. That honour goes to the Springboard Treo in 2002. You may know it as a product of the brand Palm.
  
  
  
• A 50 gram Cadbury Caramilk chocolate bar has 240 calories and 26 grams of sugar. A Tim Hortons medium double-double coffee has 200 calories and 21 grams of sugar. A Tim Hortons Iced Capp Light has 39 grams of sugar. McCafe's Vanilla Chai Iced Frappe has 19 teaspoons, or 79 grams of sugar, as much as 2 cups of caramel praline ice cream.
• Hudsons Bay Canada (HBC) let their rights to the Zeller's name expire. Now other people have applied to use it as their own brand. I guess that's what happens when you let your trademark expire.
• The premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, doesn't want to subsidize electric cars because only millionaires drive them. I'd like to see a real study on that statistic. I bet you the majority of electric car owners are NOT millionaires. They're just placing a good bet on our future.
• As of 2019, there were over 500,000 homeless people in the US. There are also 17 million vacant homes.
• The very first all female rock band was The Liverbirds.