Things I learned lately 5 November

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  Some 10 year old boys in NW Calgary came across a house that had put out a candy bowl, but it was empty. So they gave some of their haul and remedied the situation. One of the boys was dressed as Santa.
• Alberta is finally taking advantage of the 320 days of sunshine we get per year and building a solar farm as big as 1,600 football fields, or 1.3 million panels, enough to power 150,000 homes. It will become the biggest in Canada. For now.
• Electric car batteries that don't quite have the same capacity needed for a car once they age are still completely functional for lesser tasks. In Lancaster, California, old battery packs from Nissan Leaf cars are packaged together to store solar power to keep street lights on overnight.
• Two companies in Iceland, Climeworks and Carbfix, are extracting carbon dioxide from the air and injecting it underground, where within months, it petrifies and turns to rock, bonded with basalt.
• Saudi Arabia has plans to convert a decommissioned oil rig located in the Arabian Gulf into an oil-themed "extreme park." Known as "The Rig", it will consist of 11 restaurants and 3 hotels. Those who will stay at the park will have adrenaline rush activities like roller coaster rides, bungee jumping, and skydiving.
• Countries that have never had a temperature above 35C: Iceland. Ireland.
• Heterochromia which means having two different colored eyes is found in less than 1% of the human population.
• Purple flags at the beach mean dangerous sea life in the area.
• The full name of Dom Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil, is Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon.
• The photic sneeze reflex Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) syndrome or photosneezia, from the Greek φῶς, phōs, "light" and colloquially sun sneezing, is a reflex condition that causes sneezing in response to numerous stimuli, such as looking at bright lights. The condition affects 18–35% of the world's population. Seriously, ACHOO.
• A man once filmed 7 episodes of a soap opera in IKEA without getting caught.