Things I learned this week (five)

The joys of eating home-made crème brûlée totaly outweigh the hassle of making home-made crème brûlée.
While I knew about American football, I never knew there's such a thing as an American football indoor league. And apparently, you can rent out the space in the black stuff beneath your eyes as advertising space.
In other sports—and I'm using the term very loosely here—related news, there also is such a thing as a World Nettle Eating Championship.
Arthroscopic surgery—which we call a 'kijkoperatie' in Dutch—does actually involve more than just looking. Who knew?
LOL: In November, … the people of San Francisco will also vote on a measure to rename one of the city's largest sewage works the George W Bush Sewage Plant, to provide a "fitting monument" to the outgoing commander-in-chief's achievements.
The Door to Hell is a very large cavern underground filled with a poisonous gas in Turkmenistan. When discovered, the gas was ignited, expecting it to burn off in a few hours. Thirty-five years later, it still burns.
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton's It was a dark and stormy night is said to be the canonical opening sentence for bad novels. Enter the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, where people try to write the most horrendous opening lines for fictional novels.