Things I learned lately 23 Apr

• The French Dip (roast beef) sandwich was invented in Los Angeles. By accident. In 1918. Philippe the Original.
• 75% of the world's coffee is Arabica, so it's nothing special.
  
  
  
• On 1 Aug of this year (2021), MTV turns 40 years old. Thanks for the 14 years of music MTV.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author.
• There were supposed to be aliens in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Kubrick didn't like any of the proposed manifestations of their form.
• Julia Davis Chandler published the first pb&j sandwich recipe in 1901 in the Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics. She wrote, "For variety, some day try making little sandwiches, or bread fingers, of three very thin layers of bread and two of filling, one of peanut paste, whatever brand you prefer, and currant or crab-apple jelly for the other. The combination is delicious, and, so far as I know, original."
• During WWI, mercy dogs were trained by national Red Cross societies to serve the country the society operated in. A typical mercy dog was equipped with a saddlebag containing water, alcohol, and first aid supplies, which a wounded soldier could use to tend to his wounds. The dogs were trained to move silently around no man’s land at night, sniffing out wounded soldiers, ignoring those belonging to the other side. The dogs could differentiate between slightly wounded men and soldiers who were beyond help. Their mission was to alert the troops back at the camp that a man who had a chance of survival was lying in the battlefield waiting for help.
• The California grizzly bear, depicted on California's flag, has been extinct since 1924.
• Amazon Web Services is responsible for 60% of Amazon's profits.