Things I learned lately 18 Mar

• Montreal will soon have 184 km of traffic-separated bike lanes. Oulu, Finland has over 900 km.
• As of 2018, over 43% of Ontario’s electric grid was generated from renewable sources.
• Remember when the only electric cars were the pulled EV-1 and the Tesla Roadster? Well, as of March 2023, there are 40 models of electric vehicles you can buy in the US.
• There are only around 20 Ponderosa and Bonanza restaurants left in the US. There used to be hundreds.
• It is not legal to fly a drone in Banff National Park (or any national park for that matter). The fine is as much as $25,000.
• The number of transistors in a 1970s era 8080 CPU: 4,500. The number of transistors in a 2022 era i7 CPU: approximately 1,500,000,000.
• Only one NHL team predates the founding of the NHL itself - the Montreal Canadiens, which started out in the NHA (National Hockey Association).
• Les Canadiens and the Maple Leafs are the only remaining teams that were in the inaugural year of the NHL (1917). Interestingly, the Leafs didn’t get that name until 1927. They had been known as the Arenas and St. Patricks.
• The first American team to join the NHL was the Boston Bruins in 1924.
• The Vancouver Canucks were named after a fictional 19th century political cartoon character / folk hero, Johnny Canuck.
• The Buffalo Sabres could have been called the Mugwumps.
• Atlanta lost its NHL hockey team twice, the only city to do so.
• The WHA Edmonton Oilers began as the Alberta Oilers and were going to permanently split time between Edmonton and Calgary.