Things I learned lately 11 Feb

• Switching to a password-free Microsoft personal account is great, except that you now need the app on your phone, which is not too bad. But what’s not great is when GMail tries to access the account and can’t because the password no longer works. Oh well…
• The guys from the band Rush have their own beer and now their own mustard, also made from that beer.
• The cameras in many smartphone brands are off-the-shelf components made by Sony.
• On the third day of Expo ‘67 in Montreal, a record 569,500 visitors were in attendance.
• Almost 55 million people attended Expo ‘67 at a time when Canada's population was only 20 million, setting a per-capita record for World Exhibition attendance that still stands. Planners had only expected about 20 million visitors.
• A 20 by 40 foot 3D model of the Expo ‘67 site was made to put on display at Macy’s department store in NYC to help promote the fair.
• The Expo Express train built for Expo ‘67 was the first fully-automated rapid transit system in North America. This fact was not widely publicized, as it was felt the public would not readily board a train controlled entirely by a computer. Operators from Montreal's transit union were placed in cabs at the front to pretend they were driving, and given the task of opening and closing the doors of the train to reduce boredom.
• Guns now kill more children up to age 19 than any other cause in the United States.
• Alaska came from the Aleut name ‘ACAXSXAQ’. The Russians called it ‘ALYASKA’, which became Alaska.