AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CLIII

1. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles.

2. The umbrella is 3,000 years old.

3. A freeegan is a person who opposes consumerism and waste and, as a protest, eats discarded food - as from dumpsters.

4. The difference between people who have easy access to computers and those who don't is called the Digital Divide.

5. An episode of Peppa Pig, a children's animated cartoon, was pulled from Australian TV because it taught children not to fear spiders. (Australia has some of the world's most venemous spiders.)

6. Barcelona, Spain has hundreds of play areas for seniors - to promote fitness and combat loneliness.

7. The Lego House is a 12,000-square-meter building filled with 25 million Lego bricks in Billund, Denmark. Under the house is a temperature-controlled vault containing every Lego set ever made. 

8. In 1999, the U.S. government paid 16 million dollars to the Zapruder family for the film of John F. Kennedy's assassination, on November 22, 1963 - calling it a "unique historical archive of unprecedented worth."

9. Wisconsin is called the Badger State because lead miners spent winters in tunnels burrowed into hills - like badgers.

10. The expression "care package" means a box or package of goodies sent or given to another, often one who is away - as a college student or one in the military. In the original care package, CARE was an acronym for Co-operative for American Remittances to Europe, a relief organization which arranged aid packages after World War II - also known as Co-operative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere. The project began in 1945 and the boxes included powdered milk, cheese, rice, and beans - also carpentry tools, blankets, clothes, books, school supplies and medicine. CARE packages were sent as personal contributions toward world peace in a language all could understand. CARE later expanded to other regions in need, including Asia and Latin America. As the need for aid lessened, the idea of the CARE package as a gift of necessities slipped into common parlance as the "care package" - a gift of  treats.