Things I learned lately 30 December

• The city of Flint, Michigan has sold its former Police Training Academy to the Evergrow LLC cannabis company. It will convert the site into an indoor marijuana growing facility.
• There's a Czech junior hockey player whose name is Ivan Ivan.
• In Germany there are over 500,000 vending machines offering sausages and sometimes much more. This is partly due to rural stores closing early.
• It is said that the tipping point on price for when EVs would begin mass adoption is $36,000 with a minimum range of 469km (291mi).
• Patty Boyd, Marianne Faithful and Brian Jones did backing vocals on Yellow Submarine.
• Javier Bardem's performance as Anton Chigurh in 'No Country for Old Men' was named the 'Most Realistic Depiction of a Psychopath' by an independent group of psychologists in the 'Journal of Forensic Sciences'.
• None of the songs from the Beatle's album Revolver were ever performed live.
• Over 100 buildings in downtown Toronto are cooled using very cold water from the bottom of Lake Ontario. It saves enough electricity to power 25,000 homes.
• In Australia they made all payphones free. The cost of collecting the cash was higher than the revenue they were making, so they save money by giving away free calls.
• In 1957, Polish-Jewish immigrant Sam Tick founded Metro Sportswear Ltd. in a small warehouse. Metro made woollen vests, raincoats, snowmobile suits, and other functional outerwear before creating down-filled jackets in the early 1970s. Metro mainly focused on manufacturing custom down-filled coats and heavy-duty parkas for the Canadian Rangers, city police departments, the Ontario Provincial Police, municipal workers, the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Correctional Services. In 1985, the company began to produce apparel under its own "Snow Goose" brand. In the early 1990s, Metro began selling its products in Europe, where the Snow Goose name was already in use, so Metro sold its European products under the name Canada Goose.
• The seeds of an apple are a genetic mix of its parents, so the fruit they grow will be a random genetic mixture of the tree it grew on and whichever other apple tree pollinated it. If you want the exact same apple, you have to cut a branch off the existing apple tree and graft in onto another tree.