Things I learned lately 15 Apr

• Prague heats over 250,000 homes using waste heat from power plants.
• Of the 100 top 10 movie hits from each year 2012 to 2021, 92 of them were either sequels, remakes, or adaptations. 
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• Aalborg in Denmark uses waste heat from a crematorium to heat some nearby homes.
• Cologne Germany uses waste heat from sewage water to heat schools.
• An Amazon data centre in Ireland heats parts of Dublin.
• Dark Side of the Moon has charted on Billboard’s Top 200 for 977 total (but not consecutive) weeks and counting. The consecutive week count is 741, from 1973 to 1988.
• Data farms like those owned by Facebook, Google, and Microsoft could supply heat for many homes. Norway now requires data centres to share their waste heat into the local infrastructure.
• Some US Navy ships have their own Starbucks coffee shop.
• During the Great Depression, when movie theatres lost a lot of business, theatres offered dish night once a week to lure customers back. On dish night, a movie ticket also got you a plate or cup or bowl to take home.
• Quicksand is nothing like how it’s described in movies. It can be dangerous, but there are tricks to free yourself.
• Canola was originally a trademark name of the Rapeseed Association of Canada, and the name was a condensation of "Can" from Canada and "OLA " meaning "Oil, low acid".
• You can drive from Alaska all the way to Panama, but you can’t cross the road-less 60 mile Darien Gap separating southern Panama from Columbia. It is one of the most dangerous places in the world.
• About 75% of all resumes submitted by people applying for a job are being analyzed and ranked by an algorithm. The old advice about dressing up your resume to make it stand out is now obsolete. The algorithm will decide if it is ever seen by human eyes.