The More You Know

It’s funny what you learn through random surfing.

Like just now, when I looked up my hometown, Kalama, Washington, on Wikipedia.

I’d always assumed that Kalama was named after a Native American tribe or word. Not so, according to the Wiki.

It was named after the Kalama River, which itself was named after a Native Hawaiian, John Kalama, who worked the fur trade on ships and finally settled in the Northwest near the Nisqually tribe.