Things I learned lately 22 June

• ICE vehicles have a fire rate of 1,530 fires per 100,000 ICE vehicle sales. EVs have a rate of 25 fires per 100,000 EV vehicle sales.
• Based on over 70 factors that measure for quality of democracy, here are the top 10 rated democracies: 1 Denmark; 2 Sweden; 3 Estonia; 4 Switzerland; 5 Norway; 6 Ireland; 7 New Zealand; 8 Finland; 9 Costa Rica; 10 Belgium. Canada was 25th. Notable fact: every country in the top 10 have proportional representation in their governments.
• 5-pin bowling originated as a Canadian invention and it has remained largely confined to Canada over the decades.
• The story behind the development of Good Will Hunting makes for a great read (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Will_Hunting#Development).
• An apple brown betty, an apple cobbler, an apple crisp, an apple buckle, an apple crumble, an apple grunt, an apple sonker and an apple pandowdy are NOT the same thing.