Things I learned lately 22 Dec

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  The new British coins will feature a likeness of King Charles III, but facing left, not right as was the case for Queen Elizabeth II. This is a longstanding (1000 year) tradition (to flip the image direction) and nobody knows why.
• John Candy and Catherine O’Hara sang backup on Tears are not enough, the 1985 charity single recorded by the temporary Canadian supergroup Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the famine in Ethiopia.
• The San Francisco area has such a bad vehicle break-in problem, that thieves don’t even just target parked vehicles, they go after cars stopped at lights too. It’s so bad, that many owners just leave their back hatches open when they park so that the would-be thieves see that there’s nothing worth stealing and don’t smash the glass.
• In 1976, George Harrison was found guilty of infringement of the Ronnie Mack song 'He's So
• Fine’, which the New York girl group The Chiffons recorded to become Billboard's No.1 single for four weeks in 1963. A federal District Court in New York City concluded that Harrison's first No.1 hit record 'My Sweet Lord’ (1970) 'subconsciously plagiarized' the melody of Ronnie Mack's composition', and awarded $587,000 to Mack's estate. Prior to the court decision, The Chiffons recorded their own cover version of 'My Sweet Lord' in 1975.
• These days, a ‘restart’ does a better job resetting a Windows computer’s RAM content than a ‘shutdown’. That’s because since Windows 8, the default shutdown transfers a lot of the core of the OS that was in RAM to a hibernation file for a much faster start-up when you turn your PC on. So using shutdown as a troubleshooting tool may have been the norm years ago, but restart is the way to go now. The only exception to this is if you’ve disabled fast start-up in Windows.