Things I learned lately 9 Feb

• GPT-3, the large language model released by openAI in 2020, was trained on 500 billion words, which would take someone reading 1000 words an hour over 1000 years.
• ChatGPT Plus is definitely worth the USD$20 per month. Night and day.
• The Bee Gees didn’t get involved with the movie until after filming was over. The dance scenes in Saturday Night Fever were being shot to Boz Scaggs and Stevie Wonder music.
  
  
  
• After Star Trek the original series was cancelled, an animated series was created that ran for two seasons and won an Emmy. It had the same writers. Much of the main cast returned to provide the voices. It created a controversy as some die-hard fans refused to recognize it as real Star Trek.
• In China’s Kubuqi desert, the Kubuqi Renewables Base, which once completed, will be roughly the size of 20 Central Parks, will supply 16GW of solar and wind power to over 20,000,000 homes. This is the centerpiece of a collection of 255 such bases China will build in its western and northern deserts. They could be looking at 455GW when that project is finished.
• The tallest chandelier in the world can be found in the lobby of the new Fairmont Raffles hotel in Doha Qatar.
• There are no traffic lights or sidewalks in Iqaluit, NU.
• It looks like Hyperloop is dead.
• Broccoli is not naturally occurring, but was bred from other types of cabbage.
• Leonard Nimoy (who played Spock) directed the movie Three Men and a Baby.
• 9,000 years ago, Great Britain was a peninsula of Europe   doggerland.png
• If you could travel at the speed of light, you would be able to circumnavigate the earth in 0.13 seconds.