Things I learned lately 4 Aug

• Pee-wee Herman actually appeared on The Dating Game in 1979. He appeared 3 times, lost twice and won once.
• Time to 1 million users: Netflix - 41 months; Twitter - 24 months; Facebook - 10 months; Instagram - 3 months; ChatGPT - 5 days.
• One Grand Big Mac has 850 calories, 940 if you get the bacon one.
• In a pilot project conducted by 4 Day Week Global, where 41 companies in Canada tried out a 4 day work week but still with full pay, 35 said they are keeping, planning to, or leaning toward keeping a 4 day work week. Most of the companies in the study had fewer than 25 employees.
• Rock band Boston’s first album was mostly recorded in Tom Scholz’s basement. The record company was fooled into thinking the music had been recorded in a studio in LA. So you could say that Boston’s debut album is the biggest selling home recording of all time.
• In Whittier, Alaska, most of the residents live in a big 66 year old, 14 floor condo building called Begich Towers.
• Everyone has heard about Woodstock. But Summer Jam, at Watkins Glen NY in 1973 brought nearly 600,000 people to the raceway concert. It featured The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, and The Band.
• By the time that first McDonald’s opened, there were already over 100 Dairy Queen outlets.
• The first Dairy Queen in Canada was in Melville, SK.