Things I learned lately 5 Apr

• There is currently a volcanic eruption taking place on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland. It began on 16 March 2024 between Hagafell and Stóra Skógfell, north of Grindavík town. This is a fissure eruption, which means that the lava flow is contained in a localized area. This is the 4th eruption since December 2023.
• July 2024, thousands of young, healthy athletes from all over the world will converge on Paris for the Olympic Summer Games. Olympic organizers have ordered 300,000 condoms to be distributed free to the athletes in the Olympic Village.
• Finnish children are taught media literacy in school. They are taught to recognize misinformation with the phrase, “Stop. Think. Check.”
• Customers waited outside up to 8 hours overnight to be able to check out a new In N Out Burger in Idaho.
• When old warships were decommissioned, the cannons would be sunk into the ground on London streets and used as bollards.
• From 1940 to 1945, a total of 647,925 Jeeps were produced for the war.
• They invented ‘zero sugar’ soft drinks because ‘diet’ was becoming too stigmatized.
• A venti eggnog latte at Starbucks has 590 calories. That’s more than ¼ of the total calories a male my age should be consuming daily.
• "Pierogi" is plural of "pieróg". No need to add a redundant "s" as in "pierogis". One eats pierogi.
• In the Colorado portion of the Rocky Mountains, there are 53 peaks referred to as the fourteeners, meaning they are all over 14,000 feet in height.