Things I learned lately 8 January

• K-cups aren't widely accepted for recycling except in BC and QC. But you can buy compostable K-cups from some brands.
• WestJet's customer service has taken a huge dive recently. It's impossible to call a live human anymore. In fact, they do everything they can to hide their phone number from you now and encourage you to only call if you're flying in the next 72 hours. Not that it matters. You're not likely to get through even if you do call. I have heard about folks who waited over 12 hours before giving up and trying the call-back option. It's no better, as you get put on hold as soon as they call. There are people stranded because a flight was changed and they can't get through. If only there was a way to prioritize callers by like a membership number or something and use that to see if they are flying in the next few hours or days. 
• Tim Hortons Dubai sells rich milk cake.
  
  
  
• Tim Hortons Spain has a unique breakfast item - limited-edition chocolate and banana pancakes. Each pancake is layered with a decadent serving of chocolate spread, topped with freshly cut fruit and garnished with nuts and a side of whipped cream.
• Denis Villeneuve, the director currently known for Dune, has agreed to direct Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, a movie Morgan Freeman has been trying to get made for over two decades.
• The town of Karuna, Sweden has to relocate part of itself further away from its iron mine because the ground will become unstable by 2035.
• The guillotine remained the official method of execution in France until the death penalty was abolished in 1981. The final guillotining took place on 10 September 1977 in Marseille when torturer-murderer Hamida Djandoubi was put under the blade. Djandoubi's death was the last time that the guillotine was used for an execution by any government.
• In the movie Finding Nemo, P. Sherman is an inside joke from the Filipino animators of Pixar. If you say fisherman in a Filipino accent, it sounds like P. Sherman.
• For the movie Interstellar, Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn for the film because he didn't want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he sold the corn and made money for the budget.