Things I learned lately - 6 January

• In the Ukraine, a Big Mac is only $1.57.
• If a Kiwi invites you to go to Macca's with them, they want to go to McDonald's.
• This year's elite group of CEOs in Canada will have earned the average, full-time Canadian wage by 11:47 a.m. on Jan. 3 — the 2nd working day of 2017.
• Benedict Cumberbatch is a distant relative (16th cousins, twice removed) of Conan Doyle. Their last common ancestor was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, who lived in the 14th century.
• One female Greenland shark is around 400 years of age, making the species the longest-living vertebrate known on Earth.
• Even in the early 1970s, women in the UK frequently had to get a male relative's signature to get a loan.
• The tattoo policy of the US Marine Corps is 32 pages long.
• YouTube was originally meant to be an online dating site.
• There are about three million shipwrecks lying on the ocean floor.
• People played with a fifth suit of cards in the 1930s. The most commonly known extra suit was 'eagles'.
• German tourists can travel to more countries without a visa than any other nationality.
• 80% of news stories (in the US) portray Muslims in a negative way.
• After 68 years, Honest Ed's discount store in Toronto is finally closed.