The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

Scientists have identified in excess of 130,000 species of moth, but just 18,000 species of butterfly.

Every year in the United States, people toss out $80 million in metals including gold, copper and platinum when they trash their old cellphones. (discovermagazine.com)

The place we now know as Toronto was once called the Township of Dublin, before it was renamed York.

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