Friday, February 04, 2022

Things I learned lately 4 February

  • It has been said that we can look forward to around 100 new models of fully electric vehicles hitting the market in the next 5 years.
  • In 2022, the following fully electric vehicles hit the showrooms: Ford F-150 Lightning; Toyota BZ4X; Nissan Ariya; BMW IX XDrive 50; Hyundai Ioniq 5; KIA EV6; Volvo C40 Recharge; Cadillac Lyriq; Mercedes EQB; Audi Q4 E-Tron, etc.
  • Tesla recently opened up 15 Superchargers in Norway to ALL electric vehicles, regardless of make and model. And so it begins.
  • Gas stoves constantly leak methane into the air, even if they are switched off. Not enough to harm you or cause a fire, but cumulatively enough to harm the environment.
  • Harvard has a library that protects the rarest pigment colours in the world, made from extinct insects, mummy wrappings, and rare metals among other things.
  • The Corpus Museum in Holland lets you take a trip through the human body.
  • Smell is very similar to taste, and if you're not sure about combining various spices, open the bottles and smell them all together.
  • Yellowstone isn't overdue for an eruption. It's had three major explosions in its existence (2.08, 1.3, and 0.631 million years ago). If you average out those numbers, that means an eruption every 725,000 years, meaning we'd still have a good 100,000 to go. But that number is based on such little data that it's basically meaningless. A volcano doesn't operate like a fault line, and the accumulation of liquid magma and pressure necessary for an eruption does not generally happen on a schedule. Because of that, it can't be overdue.
  • In 1996, a man in Devon England spent a year hooting at owls and recording their responses. Little did he know, one of his neighbours was pretending to be an owl and was doing all the hooting back.
  • The Blue Nelson Lake in New Zealand has water so clear, the visibility is up to 260 feet (80m).

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