The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

You can use cricket chirps to calculate the temperature (in Celsius): Count the number of chirps in 25 seconds. Divide by 3. Add 4


Ronald Reagan is the first and only presidential candidate to be endorsed by TV Guide.



China, which has the world's largest weather-modification program – with 30,000 employees and a yearly budget of about $100 million – hopes to provide sunshine for the August Olympics by "seeding" clouds with rain-inducing particles beforehand.


Read the story here.