What I Learned This Week - 3/7/14

1.  I don’t understand why February on has 28/29 days and why a couple of months with 31 couldn’t give up a day to make them all contain at least 30 days. I blame the Romans.
2. The Republican Party was formed to abolish slavery.
3. Spring training is here and it’s the season where I never hear the word, “D-Backs” correctly the first time.
4. According to my youngest, the word "skinny" should mean that you are covered with skin.
5. My middle daughter has an interesting insight into current culture. She believes that if State Farm wanted to be honest, their catch phrase should be, "Like a good neighbor, stay over there".
6. Scientist believe cats “headbutt” people because they make them feel safe, or they trust them.....or they are just jerks.
7. Everyone's junk is a different size.
8. Everyone has a plastic bag full of plastic bags hidden somewhere in their house.
9. According to a coworker, you can get out of jury duty by prefacing every answer with, “according to the prophecy”.
10. It's hard not to be a proud father when another adult steps up to you and states, "I'm not a big fan of kids, but your kids are f***ing awesome".
11. I’m fairly certain the Academy Awards are rigged. I can’t explain why “best picture” and “best director” where given to different movies and neither where in the top 5 for domestic gross for the year. 
12. I love Mr. Hublot.
13. According to my middle daughter, an island is the exact opposite of a lake. I have no argument.
14. In case you were wondering, there is a world record for nose-typing and its a 103-character sentence in just 47 seconds. Yes, I used clorox wipes on my keyboard after practicing.
15. Today is National Cereal Day......I did not realize there are people out there who weren't aware there's an item called "cereal".
16. Mike Rowe (the host of Dirty Jobs) was a professional opera singer...I will never look at him the same.