Things I learned lately 10 Mar

• Mammoth Lakes CA has already had over 500 inches of snow this season. There's no end in sight.
• Australia expects to have as little as 66%, maybe even as much as 83% of its power generated by solar and wind and other renewables by 2030.
• In Australia, roughly 1 in 3 houses have solar panels.
• Glasgow Montana is considered the ‘middle of nowhere’ in the US, because it is 4.5 hours away from any major centre with over 75,000 people in every direction.
• There are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are grains of sand on earth.
• The largest recorded temperature change in 24 hours happened in Montana, when it went from -47C (-52F) to +10C (50F).
• Lahore Pakistan now has a Tim Hortons.
• The Dutch supermarket chain "Jumbo" has "slow lanes" for customers at checkout that like to converse with the cashier.
• On average, you fart enough in one day to fill a party balloon.
• Thailand used to be called Siam and Myanmar used to be called Burma.
• The NIST atomic clock can keep time to within one quadrillionth of a second, or to within a second over the course of about 30 million years.
• On a typical day, besides Canadian destinations, YYC has flights to Portland; Seattle; Salt Lake City; Houston; Dallas; Denver; Minneapolis; San Francisco; Las Vegas; San Diego; Palm Springs; Phoenix; Los Angeles; New York; Newark; Chicago; Atlanta; Orlando; San Jose Cabo; Cancun; Puerto Valla; Mazatlan; Manzanillo; Belize City; Nassau; Kahului; Honolulu; Amsterdam; Frankfurt; Liberia; and London.
• Until you see the results of an e-transfer deposited in your account (as the recipient), the sender can possibly cancel the transaction after sending the funds.
• In 1974, Elton John released a cover version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds as a single. Recorded at the Caribou Ranch, it featured backing vocals and guitar by John Lennon under the pseudonym Dr. Winston O'Boogie (Winston being Lennon's middle name).