interesting trivia

Interesting tidbits I learned from student presentations this summer, if their research is accurate:

The Colorado foster care system allows foster parents who have diagnosed drug, alcohol, and psychological problems. They also offer permanent foster parent licensing, which means once someone is licensed, they never have to be reviewed for continued licensure.

Traditional gasoline tanks are only 14% efficient.

When youths commit a criminal offense, some places allow circle sentencing, where everyone in the community is allowed to sit in and discuss and come to a consensus on how a criminal should be punished. Good times.

The word "tip", as in tipping a server, may have come from the acronym standing for To Insure Promptitude. Some say the history of the tip is that individuals would give the TIP before the service, and the amount given would tell the server what kind of service customers wanted to be provided.

Electric cars rule!

At least in the state of Colorado, establishments employing servers working under minimum wage (to allow for tips) must give their service enough money to make their hourly wage the standard minimum wage, if the servers don't make enough to tips to make up the difference.