Things I learned lately 6 Oct

• Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program.
• Social isolation hurts our minds and bodies so much that it's known to increase risk of premature death.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, the movie screenplay and the book, were written at the same time.
• In the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, nobody had yet seen what the earth looked like from space, so the image of earth in the movie had to be a guess, and it wasn’t very accurate.
• The monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey was originally supposed to be a black pyramid.
• Cortana, the Windows assistant, is dead.
• You cannot drive from Central America to South America. There are no roads connecting Panama to Columbia.
• Rome was founded in 753 BC and the Roman Empire was born in 27 BC. The Empire ruled Europe and parts of North Africa right up until 476 AD. Historians chose this date because it’s when the western faction of the Roman Empire was destroyed. The Eastern Roman Empire was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. After the fall of Rome in AD 476, Italy was fragmented into numerous city-states and regional polities, a situation that would remain until the complete unification of the country in 1871. This long history is why today Italy has such a wide range of cultural variations.
• It would take 333,000 earths to equal the mass of our sun.
• Our sun is larger and brighter than 80% of all the stars in our galaxy (that we know of).
• Did you book a hotel and things didn’t go well and you demanded a discount and they said “No can do, you booked through Expedia.”? Yeah, if you use a 3rd party to get a deal, you’re playing booking roulette every time.