Bigfoot a bigger deal in USA than Canada

People in the United States are more likely than Canadians to consider that Bigfoot is real, an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.
In the online survey of representative national samples, three-in-ten Americans (29%) and one-in-five Canadians (21%) think Bigfoot is “definitely” or “probably” real.
The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, phenomenon is definitely bigger in the United States, where 77 per cent of respondents claim to have heard “a great deal” or a “moderate amount” about Bigfoot (compared to 61% of Canadians).

American and Canadian men are more likely to believe that Bigfoot is real than their female counterparts.
Liberal Party voters in Canada (16%) are the least likely to believe that Bigfoot is real. Democrats in the
United States more likely to believe in Bigfoot (33%) than Republicans or Independents.

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Pumpkin flavor breaking records

"The flavor called pumpkin is surging toward a record season in processed foods, with Mars introducing Pumpkin M&Ms, Planters dusting “pumpkin spice” on its almonds and Starbucks bringing back its annual Pumpkin Latte. Sales of last year’s pumpkin offerings climbed nearly 20 percent to more than $290 million, Nielsen reports, and people in the flavor business say the trend has a powerful demographic wind at its back: strong popularity among millennials."

Source: New York Times

Bra Company Made Neil Armstrong’s Giant Leap for Mankind Possible

"No one knows what Columbus was wearing when he set foot in the New World, but on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap” onto the Moon, he was clad in this custom-made spacesuit, model A7L, serial number 056. Its cost, estimated at the time as $100,000 (more than $670,000 today), sounds high only if you think of it as couture. In reality, once helmet, gloves and an oxygen-supplying backpack were added, it was a wearable spacecraft. Cocooned within 21 layers of synthetics, neoprene rubber and metalized polyester films, Armstrong was protected from the airless Moon’s extremes of heat and cold (plus 240 Fahrenheit degrees in sunlight to minus 280 in shadow), deadly solar ultraviolet radiation and even the potential hazard of micrometeorites hurtling through the void at 10 miles per second.

"For the suit’s creator, the International Latex Corporation in Dover, Delaware, the toughest challenge was to contain the pressure necessary to support life (about 3.75 pounds per square inch of pure oxygen), while maintaining enough flexibility to afford freedom of motion. A division of the company that manufactured Playtex bras and girdles, ILC had engineers who understood a thing or two about rubber garments. They invented a bellowslike joint called a convolute out of neoprene reinforced with nylon tricot that allowed an astronaut to bend at the shoulders, elbows, knees, hips and ankles with relatively little effort. Steel aircraft cables were used throughout the suit to absorb tension forces and help maintain its shape under pressure."

Via Smithsonian.com