some things to learn this week

Albert Einstein lost most of his Nobel Prize money in bad bond investments on Wall Street. (boston.com)

Chimpanzees can identify their acquaintances by looking at photos of their rear ends. (news.nationalgeographic.com)

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made $10.28 per second last year. (forbes.com)

John Lydon, a.k.a. Sex Pistols punk rocker Johnny Rotten, has filmed a British TV commercial for Country Life Butter (youtube.com)

October is National Sarcastic Awareness Month. Among the instructive examples cited by the Sarcasm Society:
" I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it"
"It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black" and
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
(brownielocks.com/october.html;sarcasmsociety.com)