Things I learned lately 12 Oct

• In the 3rd quarter of 2018, Tesla sold 69,925 vehicles in the US. Mercedes-Benz sold 66,542. According to Atherton Research, Tesla was just 1,754 vehicles shy of knocking over BMW. Atherton expects Tesla to surpass BMW in US sales in the 4th quarter of 2018.
• "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations." ~George Orwell
• In Romania they sell vodka in juice boxes with a straw. (pictured)
• Columbia House CDs were special budget pressings that often did not include all of the inserts and booklets that came with the retail copies.
• The price of gas in the UK is 128 pence, or $2.23 per litre.
• Jupiter now has 79 known moons, 12 more than we knew of before. Jupiter's moons are like opposite lanes of a highway. Some moons orbit in the same direction as Jupiter's spin (prograde), and some, farther out, orbit in the opposite direction (retrograde).
• The 3D printed gun that was shown in the Netflix sci-fi series Lost in Space is not science-fiction any more. It exists. And it's legal in the US.
• Content reviewers at Facebook eyeball around 8000 posts a day for around 10 seconds each, trying to determine which ones don't meet community standards.
• It takes 2.1 litres of crude oil to make 1 litre of gasoline.
• Sunscreen lasts about 3 years before it expires.