Things I learned lately 25 Mar

• Nordstroms inventory liquidation put things on sale at 5% off. Wow. I bet there’s nothing left.
• ChatGPT became the fastest growing app in history, attracting 100,000,000 users in 3 months by January 2023.
• The Canadian government has a website about disinformation and tools you can use to see if something you’ve encountered has been debunked: canada.ca/disinformation
• The 2023 Audio A6 e-Tron electric car will come with a supposed range of 700 km.
• “Secretary” origin: late 14c., secretarie, "person entrusted with secrets or private and confidential matters" (a sense now obsolete), from Medieval Latin secretarius "clerk, notary, scribe; confidential officer, confidant," a title applied to various confidential officers, noun use of an adjective meaning "private, secret, pertaining to private or secret matters".
• Statistical trends indicate that by 2041, Calgary’s Asian population will have reached over 35% of the total demographic.
• Muffins were once called moofins. I think we should bring that back.
• The Macdonald tunnel at Roger’s Pass is the longest railway tunnel in North America at 14.9 km.
• Since 1945, the top 3 countries whose citizens emigrated to the US were Canada, Germany and Italy. Then in 1972, Mexico took the #1 spot and proceeded to leave the other countries in the dust.
• The average 60-year-old male typically farts between 14 and 22 times in a typical day.
• You're not imagining it, blinding headlights are a real problem. It's because North Americans keep buying taller vehicles.
• The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti. It has an estimated radius of 1.188 billion kilometers. If UY Scuti were at the center of our solar system, its photosphere (outer shell), would reach just past the orbit of Jupiter. It is a red hypergiant, meaning it has an enormous mass and luminosity. These types of stars are harder to find, however, because of their short life spans. About 5 billion of our suns could fit inside UY Scuti. Unlike other stars which last for billions of years, hypergiants only exist for a few million years. UY Scuti was discovered in 1860 by German astronomers. This star can be found near the center of the Milky Way, around 9,500 lightyears away from Earth.