Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Here are some things I learned this year. None of this knowledge is going to change my life,

or yours, but it is fun to have this filed away somewhere. For example, the Donald Trump

wax figure at Madame Toussons has its

hair made from a blend of both human and yak hair. The eyebrows are made from squirrel fur.

The average American bra size is 34D. There's vodka from the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine. There's only one

bottle in existence, and the distillers say, no, no, no, no, no, it's no more radioactive than any other

vodka, which I guess is good to know. Out of the UK, we hear this. Britain spent nearly four

months of their lives waiting for the kettle to boil.

A small inconvenience for a good cup of tea, I guess. And 2019 was the year. One of the great

controversies of the ages was settled for all time. An examination for the original patent for modern toilet paper. This is from 1891, filed by

Seth Wheeler, the inventor of perforated toilet paper, illustrates that the role should be hung on

the dispenser so that things roll over, not under.

Please, save your emails.

That debate has been settled.

The science is in.

It's over.

Move on.

Meanwhile, I also have a long list of music-related facts that came to my attention over the past 12 months.

Many of them were incorporated into various ongoing history programs over the last year,

but then there's all this orphan stuff, material that's interesting and fascinating, but didn't

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