Things I learned lately 20 Aug

• Hudson's Bay is resurrecting the Zellers brand, but only as a store within a store and with a primary focus on discount online shopping.
• Any city in the UK whose name ends in -caster, -cester, -chester, -cetter, or -xeter was at one time a Roman fort.
• The Ocean Cleanup has now officially removed more than 108,000 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
• Any UK place name containing the words ham, hurst, ley, bury, ford, port, mere, stead, ton, stow, wick, or wich are of Anglo-Saxon origin.
• Tesla’s Giga Shanghai factory has only been open since 2019 and has already manufactured 1 million cars. In addition to its Shanghai plant, Tesla produces cars at factories in Fremont, California; Austin, Texas; and near Berlin in Germany. 
• UK place names named by the Vikings end in thwaite, thorp, kirk, or by.
• The Toronto Islands, off the coast of Toronto, used to be a peninsula until a storm separated them in 1868.