Things I learned lately 1 Mar

• Tim Hortons plans to introduce a double-double coffee snack bar this fall. It will contain caffeine but no chocolate.
• If you are Canadian (or American), your heritage is either indigenous, refugee or immigrant. That's it.
• In the UK's NHS, not only is health care free, but most people get free prescriptions and dental work as well. Those who do have to pay are capped at around CAD$15 per prescription, and teeth cleaning is capped at around CAD$37.
• There are more Huawei smartphones in people's hands worldwide than iPhones.
• 90.5 % of the world's plastic waste does not get recycled.
• In the original Star Trek series, 55 of the 430 crew of the Enterprise died. 24 of them wore red shirts.
• It's not so much the altitude that prevents you from making a cell phone call while flying - it's the speed. It is possible for a cell tower signal to get up to 10,000 feet, although it's not reliable. But the hand-off process that hands a call off from one cell tower to another is only designed to track a phone doing less than 100 mph (160 km/h).
• The Gap Inc. also owns Banana Republic, Old Navy and Athleta.