What I Learned This Week - 11/13/15

1.  34 days until "Star Wars - the Force Awakens" (aka: Episode VII) is in theaters. 
2. Woolworth's did not go out of business completely, it just got smaller and changed its name to Foot Locker. #NoReally
3. Hockey treadmills are a thing.
4. The chemical compound “Dioxygen difluoride” is also known as “Lucifer’s gas” and will combust at temperatures above -300 degrees F. #NotAFart
5. There is only one known fish that is warm blooded.
6. Eating 1,400 Slim Jims will not only make a person full, but will kill that same person via sodium nitrate poisoning.
7. The band They Might Be Giants wrote a song, "Why Does the Sun Shine?" explaining that the Sun is mostly gas. After learning that isn't true, they made another song called "Why Does the Sun Really Shine?" to rectify their mistake. #TwoSongsConfuseMe
8. Wikipedia has a “List of Presidents of the United States with facial hair”. #AllBeardsAreRepublican
9. The drink "Lindsay Lohan" is actually another drink named "red-headed slut" with some Coke added.  #ISeeWhatYouDidThere
10. A pop-up ad for Viagra is a visual double entendre.
11. Mozart made a poem about farts. #LotsOfFrenchHorns
12. Before she was a culinary icon, Julia Child assisted the US Government in developing shark repellent during WW2. 
13. Researchers at MIT proved wearing a tin-foil hat actually boosts government signals to the brain instead of blocking them.
14. Edible containers will start seeing mass production by next year. The best by far is the edible water container. #NoMoreBottles.
15. The phrase "blowing smoke up your ass" came from an early 1,800s medical treatment known as a “tobacco smoke enema” (which would be an excellent name for a rock band).
16. A group of researchers are mapping the brain of worm to control a Lego robot. #OpenWormProject 
17. It took 10,297 balloons to lift the Carl Frederickson’s house in “Up!”
18. The famous “I Dream of Jeannie” theme song was not developed until the series second season - which also was the first season it aired in Technicolor.
19. The sugar substitute, “xylitol” (actually a sugar alcohol) that is now used in many peanut butters can cause severe liver damage and possible death in dogs. #NotKongSafe #ButSafeForHumans 
20. Yoga ball chairs do not “execuglide” very well.