What I Learned This Week - 6/20/14

1.  Lobsters pee out of their faces….okay, little glands near their antennae. I still consider it part of their “face.”
2. Lobster blood is colorless until exposed to oxygen, at which point it turns blue.
3. Barra Airport off the coast of Scotland has to schedule flights around the ocean tide because during high tide, the sea submerges the runways.
4. An engineer dad (not me) actually ran calculations to determine why “Stepping on a Lego hurts so much” – basically the little bricks can be subjected to at least 9 times your own body weight (4,240N) before they deform. Combine that with their shape, sharp edges and nubs and you get a lot of pain. Duh.
5. Someone actually made a rotary cell phone (http://bit.ly/1i4bFu7). Yes way. 
6. I remember vuvuzelas being a much bigger deal for the World Cup.
7. Colored and patterned toilet paper has been on the decline since the 1970’s due to the perception that white TP is cleaner – not because of the potential harmful effects of the dyes on bodies or septic systems.
8. Starting July 27th, a robot named “hitchBOT” will attempt to hitchhike across Canada. I predict lots of Molson stickers, geocaches, Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/etc. selfies and ransom notes from college students in its future.
9. Godzilla is a hero….again.
10. I was more excited than most when NASA released their new renderings of a hypothetical future faster-than-light spaceship. It has one slight problem (okay, probably a lot more), the proposed fuel alone will cost $3.5 quadrillion — roughly the entire economic output of the world for forty years.
11. I’m not sure “bulletproof coffee enema” should ever be used as a blog article title.
12. There has been no definitive study to conclude the reason why humans still have armpit and pubic hair. The general consensus among scientists is that the hair’s purpose is to reduce friction and reduce the potential for dirt to enter certain special places. So basically, they have no idea either.
13. Whenever someone speaks Spanish in my presence I have the uncontrollable urge to make Dora the Explorer references…and usually it leads into a song.
14. I’m fairly certain the only reason why women wear lipstick is so they identify which wine glass is theirs at a party.
15. An unwritten rule of executive meetings is that if you can’t say something nice, say something witty and sarcastic. 
16. If my dogs could make coffee, life would be pretty close to perfect.
17. Some days I wish I could do that Darth Vader-Kung-Fu-grip-remote-levitate-an-employee-by-their-throat thing. You know, just to get a point across.
18. Although the word may have been used in slang by 18th century thieves as a term for lightning, Physical Chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis, gets credit for defining a ‘jiffy’ as the time it takes for light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum (about 33.3564 picoseconds). Jiffy Lube it is most certainly not.
19. I probably Google more things than I should.
20. Apparently my wife threatens people with the fact that she is their "worst Night-Mary"
21. My oldest believes Steve Osborne is the lead singer of Van Halen and sings the song with the laughing in it. I have failed as a father.
22. I always thought the “sausage principle” was a clever joke and did not realize it was actually a historical quote.