John Stokvis

October 31, 2024

October 2024: 4 Things I Learned (⚖️, 🤖, 🐋, 🛬)

An all video version of 4 things this month! 

Happy 🎃!

  1. The Richter scale (now known as the "moment magnitude" scale goes negative. Tapping on a key on a lightweight keyboard is approximately a -6 earthquake.
  2. In the spanish version of The Terminator 2, Arnold says "Sayonara, baby." instead of the classic "Hasta la vista, baby."
  3. Modern whales used to be able to walk. They're descended from a 4-legged carnivorous animal called pachycetus, and their legs evolved into flippers.
  4. 3 letter airport codes mean there can be only about 17,000 different permutations, but there are over 40,000 airports worldwide. While the International Air Transport Association (IATA) takes care of the 3 letter codes for commercial airports, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has 4 letter codes for everything (known collectively as "aerodromes"). The first letter of the code represents roughly on Earth where the aerodrome is located. The letter "J" is reserved for Mars.