Things I learned lately 1 Sep

• The pumpkin spice latte drink turns 20 this year.
  
  
  
• Jerusalem Syndrome affects about 100 visitors every year. Of those, about 40 need to be hospitalized. Symptoms usually wear off a few weeks after the visit. Uniquely religious in focus, this syndrome manifests as the delusion that the subject is an important Biblical figure.
• Some American black bears who live near urban areas hibernate almost 2 months less than normal and some bears have stopped hibernating at all.
• The world’s first internet café, Café Cyberia, opened its doors in London in September 1994.
• BeaverTails began when Grant and Pam Hooker turned their family recipe for fried dough into a corporate business. They sold their first pastries at the Killaloe Craft and Community Fair in 1978. Two years later, they opened the first BeaverTails stand in the Byward Market in Ottawa.
• The first NHL hockey player to be named 1st, 2nd, and 3rd star of the same game was Maurice “Rocket” Richard.
• There’s a triangle shaped table with benches at the exact meeting point of the borders of Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. So people from each of those countries could sit at their side of the table and enjoy a meal without leaving their country.
• They take speed limits seriously in Iceland. If you do 60 km/h in a 30 zone (usually a school zone, etc.), the fine is USD$550 and a 3 month license suspension.
• ChatGPT started a program called Project December, making it possible to digitally resurrect the dead in the form of chatbots trained on data of the deceased. Since Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft all store heaps of our digital communications, it's conceivable that they all could create and sell deadbots in the coming years.