Things I learned lately 27 Oct

• The Panama canal is running low on freshwater because of drought conditions, and had to tell ships to carry less cargo through the canal to run with a lower draft limit (less hull underwater).
• Most stars in the Milky Way average 5 light years (LY) apart from one another. Our closest neighbour is Proxima Centauri, about 4.25 LY away.
• Chile has a bigger wine export market than the US. Australia has a bigger wine export market than Chile.
• McDonalds prices in 1979: Big Mac or Quarter pounder with cheese = $0.95; hamburger = $0.40; fries = $0.35 / $0.50; sundae = $0.50; hot apple pie = $0.30
• Cheugy: A term that describes something or someone that is out of date, uncool, or trying too hard to be trendy. For example, "That shirt is so cheugy, it looks like something from 2010."
• The Dirty Mac was a name given by John Lennon to a temporary supergroup he organised in December 1968 that featured Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell and himself (as "Winston Leg-Thigh"). The band assembled for a one-off performance on the Rolling Stones' TV special titled “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus”. The Dirty Mac played Lennon's Beatles composition "Yer Blues" and "Whole Lotta Yoko", an extended blues improvisation in which they were joined by Yoko Ono and violinist Ivry Gitlis. The TV special, which included appearances by the Rolling Stones, the Who and Jethro Tull, among others, did not air as originally planned and was not released officially until October 1996. Yer Blues on YouTube. 
• The opening guitar lick in the Eagles’ song ‘Life in the fast lane’ was something Joe Walsh used to warm up with to limber up on the guitar.