Things I learned lately 20 May

• The Safeway in our neighbourhood bought 200 mini grocery carts at a cost of $250 each when they did their recent refresh. Only 25 remain.
• ‘Take Back Alberta’ strongly opposes abortion rights and only believes in the ‘traditional’ family.
• Producers didn’t like the movie title ‘Beetlejuice’ and suggested ‘House ghost’. Tim Burton counter-offered ‘Scared sheetless’, which the producers actually considered.
• Philadelphia’s population today is much less than it was in 1950.
• Rainbows are actually full circles, but the ground is blocking the bottom half. You can often see the full circle from altitude.
• Google Chrome is getting rid of the lock icon in the address bar, because too many people were thinking that its presence meant that the site they were visiting was safe.
• Chili peppers used to just be called chiles, but the Europeans that brought them back home added ‘peppers’ to make them sound more appealing, since Europeans loved pepper.
• The fruit the Chinese named mihoutao or qiyiguo was renamed by New Zealanders as Chinese Gooseberries. When they made it to America, the name didn’t do the fruit any favours, so Americans tried the name melonettes. That didn’t work either, so they were renamed Kiwifruit and they’ve been known as kiwi ever since.
• More people live in Milwaukee than the entire state of Wyoming.