Things I learned lately 4 Mar

• Meteorological winter 2022-23 in Calgary was the 2nd snowiest in the last 10 years, and sixth snowiest on record (139 years).
• A US Supreme Court judge is blocking the President's initiative to forgive student loans because it's not fair to other people with loans.
• Soda Springs CA got 52 inches of snow in a 48 hour period.
• Huntington Lake CA in the Sierra Mountains got walloped with 144 inches of snow over a six-day period this past week.
• Music sales on pre-recorded audio cassettes in the US have jumped 443% between 2015 and 2022.
• Now that the UK has been out of the EU for a while, polls indicate that 54% feel that it was wrong to leave the EU, versus 34% who still think it was the right move. 20% of ‘leave’ voters now regret their decision.
• 11+ medical trials that included over 600,000 people concluded that wearing a mask (of any kind) does little to prevent catching the flu, H1N1, SARS or Covid. It definitely wasn’t the outcome that was expected.
• The same guy who invented leaded gas also invented freon refrigerant (Thomas Midgley).
• Canada was one of the first countries in the world to ban leaded fuel (1990).
• The majority of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet (unless you’re pregnant).
• If you pinch your nose, you cannot hum.
• One thing that is quite different between American and Canadian grocery and drug stores is that American stores lock up a lot more products than we do.