Things I learned lately 28 Jan

• The Vancouver Canucks NHL hockey team are currently paying over $7 million to 3 current/former coaches.
• Uber and Lyft will need to offer a completely electric fleet in NYC by 2030.
• A little girl in Cumberland, Rhode Island sent a partly bitten cookie to the police department and asked them to run a DNA test on it to check if Santa is real.
• Let me be frank for a sec. Oscar Meyer is hiring recent US college grads for new drivers of their 'Weiner-mobile' fleet, aka “Hotdoggers”. Sounds like buns of fun. Would you relish the job?
• In places where they’ve already switched to variable rate electricity (cheap overnight and expensive during peak time of the day), homes have begun installing storage batteries to charge overnight and release the power during the most expensive parts of the day. 
• The Stereo 8-track cartridge was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear, of LearJet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records.
• When companies were vying for the next music tape format to replace 8-track, the European compact cassette (the only format that endured) was competing for a time with the Japanese HiPac tape cartridge (made by Pioneer, Sharp, Toshiba and Hitachi), which had tape the same width as compact cassette, but a loop mechanism similar to 8-track tape.   
• BC almost left the Canadian Confederation after being promised that a transcontinental railway would link coast to coast when they joined in 1871. The railway was supposed to be finished by 1881, but for horrible mismanagement by various governments. The work was then assigned to a newly incorporated CPR company, which was allowed an additional ten years to complete the line, and they did it in five, the last spike going in on 7 Nov 1885.