Things I learned lately 13 Aug

• Cost of gas in other countries in CAD. Iceland: $3.18; Norway: $3.00; Finland / Denmark / UK: $2.88.
• There are noise bylaws in Calgary with an allowable limit of 96 decibels, but the police are powerless to enforce them because they don’t have any sound measuring equipment.
• Max Headroom is coming back, and will still be played by Matt Frewer.
• The day after tomorrow is called overmorrow.
• The sick feeling you get after eating too much is called crapulence.
• Although apes can learn sign language and communicate with humans, there has never been an observed instance of an ape asking a question—despite the intellectual abilities they clearly possess, the apes seem to lack the cognitive ability to make that leap in communication.
• Joe Clark, who was born in High River, Alberta, became the youngest person to ever head a government when he was sworn in as Canada's Prime Minister. He became leader of the now-defunct Progressive Conservative party at age 39.
• The first time non-indigenous people visited what is now Alberta was in 1754 when Anthony Henday, an explorer for the Hudson's Bay Company, came west looking for opportunities in the fur trade
• Calgary is Gaelic for "clear running water".