Things I learned lately 20 Nov

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  'Black magic woman' is a Fleetwood Mac original.
• Manfred Mann's earth Band covered two songs from Bruce Springsteen, 'Blinded by the light' and 'For you'.
• Nazareth wrote 'Love hurts', right? Nope, that was The Everly Brothers.
• Boney M covered 'Rivers of Babylon', a The Melodians original.
• 'Bette Davis eyes' was a Jackie Deshannon original. Kim Carnes covered it and made it a hit.
• 'The first cut is the deepest' was a Cat Stevens original. Rod Stewart covered it.
• The Cyndi Lauper hit 'Girls just wanna have fun' was a cover, originally performed by Robert Hazard.
• The 1975 Captain & Tennille song 'Love will keep us together' was a cover of a Neil Sedaka song from 1973.
• The Germans sometimes refer to beer as "flüssiges brot", meaning "liquid bread".
• When the pandemic hit and affected passenger flights, some airlines, including KLM, used some of their passenger jets to transport cargo in the cabin. Boxes were secured to the seats, enabling about 6 large pallets worth of cargo in addition to what is put in the belly. This cargo tended to be emergency medical equipment related to Covid.
• There are more people living below the poverty line in the US (40,000,000) than there are residents in all of Canada.
• Joe Biden's German shepherd will be the first rescue dog in the White House.