- Neil Finn, formerly of the band Crowded House, and Mike Campbell, formerly of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, are now part of Fleetwood Mac. Lindsay Buckingham is out.
- President Donald Trump's longtime personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein said on Tuesday that a 2015 letter declaring then-candidate Trump to be in "astonishingly excellent" health, was actually dictated by Trump himself. "He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter."
- Fort Connah is the last remaining post of the British Hudson's Bay Company in the US (possibly Canada too?). It played a vital role in the fur trade. It is off highway 93, near Post Creek, Montana.
- Scientists may have found evidence that humans 10,000 years ago hunted / fought giant sloths.
- By the early 1980s, Israel had routinized the aggregation and purification of the country's wastewater and built a parallel water infrastructure system to transport treated water to farms. Today, nearly 90% of Israel's sewage is treated to an ultra pure level for agricultural use.
- The Royal New Zealand Air Force has no combat capable aircraft. No fighter jets or bombers.
- Southdale Mall was the first fully indoor mall ever built, in 1956, in Edina MN.
Thursday, May 03, 2018
Things I learned lately 3 May
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