Things I learned lately 19 Jan

• There have been 98 confirmed tornados so far in the US in January 2023 alone. 
• ExxonMobil’s own climate research from the 1970s secretly predicted with astonishing accuracy how climate change would evolve over the following 50 years and yet they denied publicly that burning fossil fuels was a problem.
• Tesla now outsells both BMW and Mercedes Benz in the US and is now the top selling luxury car brand.
• A woman in Mexico got a tattoo on her arm that can launch her Spotify playlist for a DJ to play from it at the club.
• At $5,000 each, the 12 tires on an Airbus A340, would cost a total of $60,000.
• Treadmills were introduced before the development of powered machines to harness the power of animals or humans to do work, often a type of mill operated by a person or animal treading the steps of a treadwheel to grind grain. In later times, treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to hard labour in prisons.
• I have heard that people who were born deaf and get their hearing later in life are surprised to discover that the sun doesn’t make any noise.
• Gay men were allowed to serve in the Swedish military even before Sweden de-medicalized homosexuality in 1979.