Things I learned lately 24 Feb

• An Alabama court ruled that frozen embryos, like the kind that result from IVF treatments, are humans and can’t be destroyed.
• Norway aims to become the first nation to end the sale of gasoline and diesel cars by 2025. They are very close to this objective.
• Mark Hamill was in the pilot episode of the Eight is Enough television series.
• The owner of a soap factory in Montreal refused to sell his property to make way for the Jacques Cartier bridge approach, so they had to curve the ramp around the factory. It became known as the crooked bridge.
• The recurring “Jeux sans frontières” that is sung throughout the Peter Gabriel song Games Without Frontiers is sung by Kate Bush.
• April Wine’s album Stand Back was the first Canadian album to sell more than 100,000 copies.
• April Wine’s album First Glance was the first Canadian album to achieve Gold status (500,000 album sales) outside of Canada (US).
• Have you ever wanted to browse a web site via its pictures rather than via its text? Go to Google, and choose the "Images" tab. Then type in site:sitename.com, where sitename is the name of the site you want to browse visually, such as amazon.com. Then, when you see a picture you like, just click on it and Google will take you to the page that has the picture. Of course, some sites offer better visual browsing than others.
• The first guest host on Saturday Night Live was George Carlin, with musical guest Billy Preston.
• Steve Martin has been a guest host on SNL 16 times.