What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There's a Youtube channel named, "Sandwiches of History."

HOpefully, the 260 years the sandwich has been around is enough time to work with.

Quite a bit longer than that, actually.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

The Aga Khan can, supposedly, trace his lineage all the way back to Hassan al-Sabbah, the founder of the 12th century assassins in Iran.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

During her confirmation hearings, US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, a person with no background, experience, degrees, or credentials in education, repeatedly referred to AI as A1, a popular brand of bottled steak sauce.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

While writing a massive piece on Nick Drake for Anglotopia, I went down an odd rabbit hole involving the guitars he played.

The guitar on the cover of Bryter Layter, which people assumed for decades was his primary guitar, was just a prop that belonged to the photographer.





Strangely, it had previously belonged to Eric Clapton, but was abandoned when the photographer moved into one of Clapton's old flats. A young lad named Nick Laird-Clowes wound up buying it for £100 a few years later. About a decade later, he'd start to regain interest in Drake's music after dedicating this song to him: 





Laird-Clowes still owns the guitar. 

The guitar Drake really used on his records was a Martin D-28. He sold it after retiring from music in 1972. What happened isn't clear, but the most plausible theory is that he sold it to friend John Martyn. Notably, around the same time Drake retired, Martyn switched from playing a Yamaha FG series to a D-28 identical to what Nick would have used around the same time.