Things I learned lately 28 Oct

• The Hyundai Nexo is their first hydrogen fuel cell that will be available in Canada. It has a range of 570 km and can be refueled in 5 minutes. It even purifies the outside air as you drive.
• There’s a new young player on the Montreal Canadiens hockey team named ARBER XHEKAJ. His teammates call him wi-fi, because his name looks like someone’s wi-fi network password.
• Chinese checkers was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game Halma. The Stern (German for star) refers to the board's star shape (in contrast to the square board used in Halma). The name "Chinese checkers" originated in the US as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928. The Pressman company's game was originally called "Hop Ching Checkers". The game is neither a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia.
• Nearly 20 US states have constitutions that include language permitting slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments.
• A butt is a real unit of measurement for a cask of wine. A buttload is about 108 Imperial gallons.
• The German version of the term “Average Joe” is Otto Normalverbraucher, which translates to “Otto normal consumer.”
• Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone in 1876, suggested answering calls with "ahoy."