Saturday, October 21, 2017

Things I learned lately - 21 Oct


  • Amazon is adding 1 million square feet of warehouse space a week and not slowing down anytime soon.
  • Dogs like to eat cat poop.
  • There is a new virus that uses Bluetooth enabled devices to spread itself around.
  • German chocolate cake is not named after the country, but rather after Sam German, who patented a baker's chocolate, which was used in a particular cake recipe in a Dallas newspaper.
  • Cybersecurity firm McAfee said Avril Lavigne is the most likely celebrity to land users on websites that carry viruses or malware. Searches for Lavigne have a 14.5% chance of landing on a web page with the potential for online threats.
  • Norway's sovereign wealth fund, which collects money from its offshore oil industry and invests it in stocks and bonds, reached US$1 trillion (C$1.22 trillion) in value in the last month.
  • Your body needs iron, because that's what the oxygen (and CO2) binds to in your blood to get to and from your cells.
  • Every time you inhale, about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 oxygen molecules enter your lungs.

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