Things I learned lately 16 Sep

• Montreal Canadiens sniper Jean Beliveau scored 3 goals in 44 seconds during a power play against Boston in 1955. The next season a rule change was introduced where a minor penalty assessed player could return to the ice if the other team scored a goal.
• A single bat can feast on over 1,000 insects in one night.
• In 1949, the White House had to be completely gutted and rebuilt because of neglect over the decades. To maintain the appearance of a continuing icon, its exterior was always left intact and it was completely gutted on the inside.
• NASA warned Steven Spielberg that his movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind could cause a 'UFO panic'.
  
  
  
• A lot of people like the colour blue as their favourite. The reason for this is our association with blue things, like the sky and the ocean.
• People think that the reason plants and trees are good for the environment is because they convert CO2 to oxygen. That is true, but more importantly, they use the carbon from the CO2 to grow and make more plant material. They truly are carbon sinks.
• The Howard Johnson's restaurant chain is now completely done. The last Ho-Jo's in Lake George, New York has shut down.
• Paul McCartney had no problem with Weird Al Yankovic parodying "Live and Let Die," but he's famously the most vegetarian, so he didn't want it to be called the planned "Chicken Pot Pie." Yankovic ended up scrapping the whole thing.