Things I learned lately 4 Feb

• The Saint-Michel quarry, bought by the city of Montreal in 1984, is used as a dumping ground for snow removed from city streets. It receives 4.8 million cubic metres of snow every year, or 40% of the city’s total snowfall.
• Amsterdam just opened an underground bicycle parking structure with spots for 7,000 bikes, which will increase to 11,000 in another month. 
• The oldest subway system is London’s, which opened in 1863.
• The most extensive subway system by rail length in Shanghai’s, at 802 km. Comparatively, Montreal’s subway is 71 km.
• The Clinton Station Diner has some colossal Burgers of the Gods, many of which come with a challenge. The Achilles, with 1 pound of meat, is $15.49. Going up from there, the Hercules (2 lbs) is $25.09; the Atlas (3 lbs) is $36.99; the Zeus (7 lbs) is $86.49; the Mt Olympus (25 lbs) is $ 251.69; and the big daddy of them all, the 8th Wonder (50lbs) is $506.49. 
• The subway system with the most stations is New York’s, with 424 stations (stations with multiple platforms are counted as one.
• China has the most extensive set of subway systems of any country, with 46 systems covering over 9100 km of rail line and a total of 5386 stations. Today.
• Ashburn Virginia has a very high concentration of data centers, as it sits atop the world’s densest intersection of fiber optic networks. Loudoun county has over 25 million square feet of data center space. That is enough space for 83 IKEA stores.
• On modern diesel locomotives, the bell sound is actually produced by a speaker, attached to the underframe.