Things I learned lately 31 Jan

• A product named Clearview AI claims to be able to scour all social media photos, putting billions of them in their database, which they offer to law enforcement as a facial recognition service.
• They don't actually sell danish pastries in Denmark.
• Although the Intel i3 processor is the low end of their range, it's perfectly fine for folks surfing the net and working on simple documents.
• An estimated 8,000 koalas have died from the wildfires in Australia, over 30% of the entire population in NSW. The original estimate of 480 million animals dead is way out of date. The new number is at least 800 million, but more likely over 1 billion. That does not include insects, bats or frogs.
• Newfoundland got 76 cm (30") or more of new snow on the ground on 17 Jan 2020 (a new single day record). 42 cm (17") of snow was already on the ground before the storm began, for a total of 4 feet. Some snow drifts were as high as 12 feet tall. Near the ocean, they saw 130 km/h (81 mph) winds with gusts to 157 km/h (98 mph).
• There is now a Loblaw's City Market in Calgary (as of 2016). This may be the first Loblaw's in Alberta. They're usually not any further west than Ontario.
• Michael Jackson won 8 Grammy Awards in a single night in 1984; a record that is yet to be broken and was only tied 16 years after the fact by Santana in 2000.
• A Charlie Brown Christmas, one of the most iconic children’s Christmas specials around, was originally rejected by CBS on the grounds that they didn’t like amateur child voice actors voicing the characters, the anti-consumerism message, and the musical score.