Things I learned lately 15 April

• Alexander Abian, a mathematician who taught at Iowa State, gained notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence. He claimed in 1991 that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes. The proposed nuclear destruction of the Moon has been rejected by astronomers, including NASA, on several grounds. The nuclear arsenal of mankind would fail to do more than crack the Moon's crust; if successful, the heating of Earth's atmosphere by a hail of falling lunar debris would be destructive to all life; and an increase, not decrease, in the Earth's wobble without a stabilizing Moon, leading to an Earth axial tilt of 45 degrees and more drastic seasons would occur.
• Pearl Milling Company is just the original Aunt Jemima re-branded. It's the same stuff.
• Over 30% of Montreal residents don't have a regular doctor. That compares to about 19% in Calgary and only 9% in Toronto.
• There's a 46 year old guy, Vaughn Smith who is a carpet cleaner in the Washington area. He can speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian and Romanian fluently. But he also speaks Croatian, Finnish, Italian, Latvian, Nahatl and Serbian conversationally. He has intermediate abilities in ASL, Cataalan, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Norwegian and polish. He has basic understanding of Amharic, Arabic, Estonian, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Lakota, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Navajo, Salish, Sinhalese, Swedish, Ukranian, and Welsh. And lastly, he has some familiarity with Mongolian, Vietnamese, Tzotzil and Zapotec.
• Canadians used 46 billion litres of gasoline in 2018, about 8 billion of which was imported.
• Based on bones found on Seymour Island, penguins who lived 37 to 40 million years ago were 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.
• Bobcats are the most common wild cat in North America.
• Valles Marineris (on Mars) is eight times longer and four times deeper than the Grand Canyon.