What I Learned This Week - 1/2/15

1.  349 days until "Star Wars - the Force Awakens" (aka: Episode VII) is in theaters.
2. Newscasters that post photos of a snow covered baseball field in December with the caption, "Good thing there is no game scheduled today", only make me scratch my head - "wh-why would there be?"
3. My phone sent me a virtual Christmas card two days after Christmas - it was just as creepy as you'd imagine.
4. The post holiday sales make me feel like I should be a stripper, "shop now and take 75% off!".
5. According to a suburban full of teenage girls, Mermaids give birth the way humans due solely on the premise that Mermaid Ariel has a belly button.
6. It is estimated that marine plants (primarily algae) produce between 70 and 80 percent of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
7. Betty White truly is older than sliced bread - she was born in 1922, manufactured sliced bread became a thing in 1928.
8. Due to bizarre atmospheric conditions, it rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter - around 1,000 tons of it per year.
9. More photographs are taken in two minutes than existed in the entire 20th century.
10. Facebook is predicting my senility; why else do I need to see what I did this year?
11. The nerdiest thing I’ve seen this week – someone playing Quake on an oscilloscope.
12. Comet Lovejoy (aka C/2011 W3) will be visible to the naked eye on my birthday - how neat is that?
13. Looking through old photos of your kids only solidifies how fast time actually moves.
14. A laser pointer + duct tape +silly lab = lots of giggling.
15. According to the United Nations, you are three times more likely to die at work than you are at war.
16. The number of words posted on Twitter each day would fill a 10-million page book.
17. According to my middle daughter, only mom can do the "told-you-so" dance.
18. Whenever a football announcer shows stats for a specific type of play, the result of the play will be the opposite of the stat - sorry Ken.