- The price of a domestic Canadian stamp as of January 1st, 2016, is 90 cents.
- As a measure of computer speed, a gigaflop is 1 billion floating-point operations per second.
- The word for a continuously moving elevator is ‘paternoster’.
- The term ‘street legal’ refers to a roadworthy vehicle that is licensed AND equipped for use on public roads.
- The unit of heat defined by Nicolas Clement is the calorie.
