Things I learned lately 27 August

• The new Tesla Model S 'Plaid' does 0-60mph in 2 seconds. Not a typo. 2. It will do a 1/4 mile in 9 seconds. Electric cars are boring. Pfft...
• Norway has 35 EV chargers per 10,000 people. Canada has 1.3.
• There are about 350,000 EVs on the road in Norway. There are about 170,000 in Canada, the majority in Quebec.
  
  
  
• No racial or ethnic group dominates the US population in the under 18 demographic. I'll let you come to your own conclusions on what that means in about 30 years America.
• The IBM PC is 40 years old.
• Through the 1980s, McDonalds added 5,415 new restaurants, which works out to a new location every 16 hours.
• In the 1980s, A&W launched a new 1/3 pound burger to compete against McDonalds' Quarter Pounder. For the same price. It didn't sell very well. When management investigated, it turned out that Americans didn't know their fractions very well, thinking 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 because there's a four in it.
• St. Paul Alberta features a UFO landing pad.
• April Wine were the 1st Canadian group to ship Platinum status.
• You don't need anything to detoxify your body. Your liver does that all by itself.
• Food portions in European restaurants are much more reasonable than in North America.