Things I learned lately 5 Jan

• More than 4 million electric vehicles had been sold worldwide as of Aug 2018. That puts us on track for over 5 million by mid 2019.
• Cars that will no longer be sold after 2019 (in US): VW Beetle; Ford Fiesta; Ford Focus; Ford Fusion; Ford Taurus; Cadillac ATS; Chevrolet Volt.
• President Trump averaged 15 falsehoods per day in 2018.
• Supposedly, cat species can either roar or purr, but not both. Cheetahs and mountain lions are big cats that purr.
• The ampersand used to be the 27th character in the alphabet.
• In the Star Trek universe, the starship Enterprise is called Enterprise because of a line of ships and starships with that name, including one of the first manned Earth spaceships. In real life, the first space shuttle was called Enterprise because of the Star Trek starship.
• Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy is why we have Star Trek. She overruled her team to produce the pilot!
• Kukur Tihar is a Hindu Diwali festival day that celebrates dogs (pictured).
• Spruce beer was first made by first nations people and was used to ward off scurvy.
• Cheech & Chong, Jose Feliciano, David Crosby, Graham Nash and Robbie Robertson were all featured on Joni Mitchell's album 'Court and Spark'.
• Copyright law in the US states that a work is protected by copyright for 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Do we really need copyright lengths that long? FWIW, Disney lobbied for that, which is funny considering that most of its early works copied other works that were in the public domain.
• Of the top 10 most popular girl names in 2018, 9 of them end with the letter 'a'.