Things I learned lately - 10 Oct

• 86 Canadian families have more combined wealth than 11.4 million Canadians at the bottom of the income pyramid.
• The music industry now makes less revenue from selling CDs than both digital downloads and digital streaming.
• Air Canada originally planned to order 4 Concorde supersonic airliners. The 1973 oil crisis scared too many buyers away, leaving only Air France and British Airways as the only 2 customers.
• In Alaska, a 'sourdough' is a long time resident of Alaska.
• Canada's not even in the top 25 countries for average peak connection speed.
• Japan's owl cafes are so popular, you need a reservation to get in one.
• There is less caffeine in Tim Horton Dark Roast coffee than their regular blend. But it's only 5 mg less, so you likely won't feel any different.
• Hillary Clinton hasn't driven a car since 1996.
• It takes 364 licks to get to the centre of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
• Wint-O-Green was the first flavour of Lifesavers.
• The company that made the Baby Ruth candy bar sued baseball legend Babe Ruth to prevent him from making a candy bar named The Babe Ruth Home Run Bar. They won.
• A typical hive might have 50,000 bees, and visit 100,000,000 flowers.
• The Beatles used the word 'love' 613 times in their songs.