Things I learned lately 1 Jul

• According to recent polls, Jean Chretien is the most popular modern Canadian Prime Minister.
• Some people pronounce wi-fi as 'wiffy'.
  
  
  
• Those fancy toothpastes don’t grow more enamel for your teeth. What they do is re-mineralize them. What toothpaste actually does is push calcium and phosphates back into the tooth, and it hardens the enamel. The secret weapon is good old fluoride. While acid in our saliva and food draws calcium and phosphates out of teeth, fluoride captures the minerals from saliva and forces them back into the tooth.
• Carole King's album Tapestry spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200. To date, Tapestry still holds the record for most consecutive weeks at number one by a female solo artist. The album spent nearly 6 years charting the US Billboard 200 (318 weeks), in which she also spent 302 consecutive weeks. For more than 40 years, Tapestry held the record for the longest charting album by a female solo artist in the US until Adele's '21' broke the record in 2017. In Canada, Tapestry spent 9 weeks at #1, beginning 3 July, 1971.
• Brazil's northernmost point is closer to Canada than to its most southern point.
• The furious guitar playing in The Moody Blues' song 'Question' was the inspiration for the acoustic opening of Heart's 'Crazy on You'.