Things I learned lately 13 Nov

• This city of Winnipeg was once named Ouinipigon, in 1734.
• Bangkok's Thai name is Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.
• The people who harvest latex from rubber trees in Thailand earn less than $220 per month.
• Kanye West got around 60,000 votes nationwide. 10,000 of them were in Tennessee.
• I may be mistaken, but Trump may be the only president to lose the popular vote twice.
• In advance of the 2020 general election, Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin displayed the likeness of U.S. President Donald Trump in a dumpster as part of an exhibit with the sign, “Dump Trump.”
• The letter K is more visually striking, so marketing people like to substitute it for the letter C. Kraft. Krispy Kreme. Ketchup (used to be catsup). Klik. Kool-aid. 
• TAOSHIWCBPFDMREYNLUGVKJQZX The order of the English alphabet from most used letter at left to least used letter at right.
• The abbreviation o.k., in fact short for 'all correct' (more specifically oll korrect) was first seen in widespread print on Saturday, March 23rd, 1839 in the Boston Morning Post. By 1844 it was being used in print across the US. By 1865, railway telegraph operators were using ok to acknowledge received Morse Code messages.
• During WWII, women were so convinced that proper ladies had to wear stockings, that when you couldn't buy them anymore due to military use of nylon, women had faux stockings painted on their legs.
• Even as late as the early 20th century, freckles were considered to be ugly, and some went so far as to poison themselves with topical mercury compounds to remove them.
• Beauty contests in the 1930s had women wearing coverings over their face so they could be judged by their body alone.
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  NASA landed a spacecraft on another asteroid.