60 Facts in 30 Minutes: 2020 Edition

Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 5 a.m.

b'Okay\\u2026let\\u2019s start the annual office cleanup\\u2026this is the time of year when I go through all the scraps of paper, all the scribbles on various notepads and all the post-it notes hanging everywhere\\u2026then there are the computer and phone notes that contain even more information\\u2026\\n\\nThe goal is to determine if anything I\\u2019ve written down or squirreled away somewhere is of any use for this program\\u2026\\n\\nSee, when you do a program like this, you always need to be on the lookout of interesting stuff\\u2026arcane knowledge\\u2026bits of trivia\\u2026oddities and strange connections\\u2026it\\u2019s a practically a 24/7 thing because you never, ever know when you\\u2019re going to run across something mind-blowingly fascinating\\u2026\\n\\nThe problem is that many of the cool things I discover don\\u2019t fit in with anything that I\\u2019m doing or writing about\\u2026but it seems a shame to discard or otherwise ignore any of this research because it\\u2019s still fascinating stuff\\u2026\\n\\nSo I spend the year collecting all this orphan material for this specific program every December\\u2026essentially, it\\u2019s a big data dump of music-related information\\u2026I just put it out there and let you do with it what you may\\u2026\\n\\nGot that?...prepare yourself\\u2026this is the annual look at 60 mind-blowing things about music in 30 minutes\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'