Things I learned lately 15 January

• 1970 and 2022 are as far apart as 1970 and 1918.
• If someone complains about someone at Netflix behind their back, the person on the receiving end stops the conversation and tells the complainer they need to speak directly to that person.
  
  
  
• The Badfinger song "Come and get it" was written by Paul McCartney and he originally intended for it to be on Abbey Road.
• Ringo Starr's only drum solo on a Beatles record was in the song The End, on Abbey Road. It's also the only drum track recorded in true stereo.
• When a teenager goes to take the test for a driver's license, the car they use for the test determines what kind of license they receive if they pass. If you use an automatic vehicle, you get a license to drive automatic vehicles only. If you use a car with a manual transmission and pass, you get a license for either kind of car. If you get a restricted license for automatic only and then decide later that you want an unrestricted license, you have to take the test over again with a manual transmission.
• Canada has the largest wolf population in the world. There are somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 wolves in Canada.
• Kenny G was one of the original investors in Starbucks and has made more money investing than from his music career.
• Despite the widely held belief that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, there's no real data to back this up and the concept didn't gain traction until it was championed by a small group of religious fanatics and lobbyists for cereal and bacon companies in the late 19th century.
• Confelicity: taking joy in someone else's happiness.
• Apparently, watching a fire can lower your blood pressure.
• During WW II the US Army was aware that mail to soldiers was critical for morale, but overwhelmed with the volume and space it took to ship. So the resuscitated a British/Eastman Kodak method where every letter was photographed, and the film was shipped, then printed. It was called V Mail.