What I Learned This Week - 2/28/14

1.  According to a young traveler walking through the airport, "Shellfies" are what Teenage Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles post on Facebook.
2. Smoking an e-cigarette is called, “vaporing.”
3. Morgan Freeman had the best response for falling asleep mid-interview, “I wasn’t actually sleeping. I’m a beta-tester for Google Eyelids. I was updating my Facebook page.”
4. When I’m at someone’s house who doesn’t own a dog and I accidentally drop some food on the floor, I have to pause for a minute to remember what to do.
5. Any noun can become a verb if you add the suffix “-ify” to it. Currently, I’m fond of the verbs “duct-ify, Googl-ify, coff-ify and phon-ify”. 
6. Whenever I receive a text message from someone I now giggle to myself, “text-ify it brother!!”
7. According to my middle child, the highest form of self-control is working at a bubble wrap factory.
8. There are actually people/adults who claim to be “corndog enthusiasts”. I thought they were just called, “kids”.
9. By 1982, the video game Space Invaders had grossed $2 billion - in quarters. 
10. Even Ironman world champion, Miranda Carfrae (Rinny as she's known in triathlon circles), claims to routinely feel fat. For reference, recent test results showed she has about 4.9% body fat. There is no pleasing women.
11. A man in China tried to rob a bank with a cleaver. FYI, he was unsuccessful more so because the teller couldn't stop laughing.
12. According to my youngest, you can drink lava.....once.
13. The United Nations telecommunications agency reports that more people around the world have cell phones (around 6.8 billion devices) than ever had land-lines (around 3 billion devices).
14. No matter how bad it screws up my sleep, I cannot wait for daylight savings time.
15. There are few sounds louder than the crunch of something you’re not supposed to eat.
16. FootGolf is an officially recognized sport in the Netherlands and USA, and is basically Golf played with a soccer ball and no cleats.
17. I'm more excited for the new Godzilla movie than I should be. I know it's going to be terrible, but that's what will make it great.
18. The time that ends up on your smart phone and that synchronizes GPS, military operations, financial transactions, and internet communications - originates in a set of atomic clocks on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory. They measure seconds to 16 decimal points and are only off a second in 300 million years.