Things I learned lately 8 Nov

• McDonald's CEO will get at least $675,000 in severance pay after being fired for having a relationship with an employee.
• Microsoft's Japan subsidiary closed every Friday in August 2019 as part of a "Work-Life Choice Challenge" experiment. It noted a 40% productivity increase over this period.
• Tesloop, a shuttle service in southern California, has Tesla cars that rack up about 17,000 miles per month and have to fully recharge roughly twice per day. Some of these Tesla cars have almost 500,000 miles on them, still going strong.
• AMG now makes a 2.0 litre 4 cylinder engine that produces 421 horsepower. Those German engine makers I tell ya......
• As soon as Spotify bought all those podcast companies, their paid membership grew 39% in 3 months.
• Babies raised on farms grow up to have stronger immune systems because of their exposure to more types of bacteria (various animal fecal matter).
• teamtrees.org is trying to plant 20 million trees in places around the world by 1/1/2020. Elon Musk donated enough money to plant 1,000,000 trees at $1 per tree.