US curios and trivia

I knew that Americans call the pavement the sidewalk, but I didn't know they call a tarmac road a pavement, did you?

Can you imagine seeing this comment about Karma outside a UK bookshop?

And who would have thought you'd find lichen on cactus?

It is the law in California that all take-away containers must be compostable. What a sound idea.

(And just so you know - the BLT tasted swell.)