Things I learned lately 21 May

• Kittens are immune to the effects of catnip.
• Deepfake, the practise of using sophisticated AI graphics technology to make it look like someone is saying something they never actually said, may end up being used to dub different languages onto the actor's face and mouth. 
• Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, is now a dairy veterinarian.
• Supposedly, the first fish and chip shop (1858) in the UK came AFTER the first East Indian restaurant (1809).
• British Parliament had an official discussion where they condemned the historical inaccuracies of the film U-571 and the rewriting of history to paint the Americans as heroes in an event they never took part in. They felt it was unfair on the British sailors that lost their lives.
• In Iceland you can buy rye bread that was 'baked' in the ground by volcanic heat.
• Simon Berger cracks glass with slight, precise, carefully-timed taps of his hammer, so that the fracture lines depict faces. 
• Apparently there are feral chickens running around the Hawaiian island of Kauai as the result of a hurricane.
• There was an underground pneumatic tube mail system in New York until the 1950s.
• Some soap operas have been using mannequins in scenes requiring intimacy, to satisfy Covid protocols.
• Boston Pizza started in Edmonton.