Among the things I learned this week:
* Non-essential residential and commercial construction was halted during World War II. (Courtesy: New York Review of Books)
* You can buy golf-cart insurance. (Courtesy: Progressive)
* Pert Plus is one of the few shampoos that will lather in salt water. (Courtesy: EG)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Google uses an enormous number of contractors. (Courtesy: Business Insider)
* When dining in Rome, you have to ask for things twice, including the check. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* The differences and similarities–yes, there are similarities; namely more than a few of the same luxury stores–of Naples, FL, and Naples, IT (I made it to both in 2012.). (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Cubavision‘s existence. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Four percent of NYC’s population lives in public housing. (Courtesy: New York Times)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Shiseido Company, Limited, at 140 years, is the oldest cosmetics company in the world. (Courtesy: Not Couture)
* Learning foreign languages increases the probability of buying books translated from that language to your native language. (Personal Courtesy: The New York Review of Books
* The first English-language film to use the word “homosexual” is Victim, which was released in 1961. (Courtesy: Harper’s)
* The three largest employers in the World are the Department of Defense, People’s Liberation Army, and Wal-mart. (Courtesy: Harper’s)