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:


Male mosquitoes live on nectar and plant juices. Females drink blood.


Chicken, Alaska (population 17 to 37, depending on whom you ask), is so named because the original residents couldn't agree on the spelling of the town's first, fowl-inspired choice: Ptarmigan

There are 1,961,990,553,600 ways to feed a shoelace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe, according to shoe-lacing.com

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