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Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* The New York Yankees air dry their laundered uniforms, and visiting teams have laundry facilities and staff. (Courtesy: NYT)

* Motion detecting towel dispensers use D batteries. (Courtesy: Personal experience)

* Cull is the term for a lobster missing a claw. Pistol is the term for a lobster with no claws. (Courtesy: Cull & Pistol)

* October is considered an appropriate time to start selling Christmas ornaments. (Courtesy: Kennedy Center)

* RSAP (Renoir Sucks at Painting) Movement. (Courtesy: NYT)

* USGS uses Twitter and other social media data to supplement seismic instrument data to detect earthquakes. (Courtesy: Fellow Party Attendee)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* Alexandria, VA, has the longest running farmers’ market in the country. (Courtesy: Southern Living)

* The personal- and tactical-level experience of Stalin’s Soviet Union. (Courtesy: Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers)

* Clothes dryer’s thermal fuse (Courtesy: Personal experience)

* Fifty-six British gin distilleries opened during the past two years. (Courtesy: Economist)