Friday, May 07, 2021

Things I learned lately 7 May

  • They're gonna age some wine in space and sell it for a cool million. Not sure if that's per bottle or per case.
  • As of 4 May 2021, Toronto had international flights to Hong Kong; Tocumen; Shanghai; Addis Ababa; Tokyo; Seoul; Beijing; Frankfurt; Amsterdam; Madrid; Doha; Abu Dhabi; London; Tel Aviv; and Istanbul. In one day.
  • Fox News actually tried to pass off the lie that Biden's climate plan would limit you to one burger a month.

  • In Utrecht, 98% of households own at least one bicycle. 50% of households own 3 or more bicycles. Only 15% of traffic entering the city centre is by car. The train station that people use to commute to other cities has indoor and outdoor secure bicycle parking for tens of thousands of bikes, with more room planned very soon. There are other parking facilities as well in the city core. The road network is designed to prioritize bike traffic, making it easier and faster to get places by bicycle. There are many streets where cars have to share the street with cyclists and give bikes equal access. These shared streets typically have 30 km/h limits and are paved with a special low friction red tarmac to visually indicate that pedestrians and bikes have equal rights to cars on that street.
  • In its 81 year run, the VW Beetle sold more than 23 million units.
  • The black lines on the sides of school buses are called rub rails. The bottom one is usually at the height of the floor, the next one up usually at the height of the seats and the top one at the top of the seat backs or the window.
  • The office cubicle was invented by Robert Propst in 1968.


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