Things I learned lately 13 May

• Within 2 months, ChatGPT surpassed 100 million users, making it the fastest growing consumer app in the history of the internet.
• Time will tell, but the next logical evolution of AI chat is to make it try to respond more like yourself versus like an average person. Then you would be able to automate a lot of your most mundane mental tasks.
• Nestle Quik chocolate drink powder (now just called Nesquik) first appeared in 1948, 75 years ago.
• The global market share of EVs is 14% in 2022.
  
  
  
• California has 1,051,456 battery electric vehicles in total, with only 15,432 hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. The biggest selling electric vehicle in California is the Tesla Model Y, which sold 33,205 in Q1 of 2023. The best selling domestic electric car is the Chevy Bolt (but not for much longer) at 8,175 for both models in Q1. BMW across their entire electric car lineup sold 17,825. Ford sold 4,492. Kia sold 4,058. Volkswagen sold 3,951. 
• California has about half of all the electric vehicles on the road in the US. This will change soon, as national US sales are increasing at a dramatic rate.
• A triangular picnic table lies in a tripoint between the international borders of Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.
• You can actually cross the border between Spain and Portugal by zipline. Limitezero, is located in Sanlúcar de Guadiana, Spain. The facility is the first cross-border zipline in the world.