Things I learned lately - 9 Jan

• The 'compare at' price on a price tag at Winners / Home Sense is completely made up.
• The most popular NHL team in Washington and Oregon is the Vancouver Canucks.
• YallQaeda and VanillaISIS. That's what mockers are calling the militants in Oregon who took over a federal building.
• Ayyoub Momen, a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has invented an ultrasonic clothes drying technology that will dry an article of clothing in less than 30 seconds, using very little electricity.
• Urinals at the airport in Schipol feature an image of a fly, to encourage men to aim better.
• 15% of people admit to dropping their phone into the toilet at one time or another.