What I Learned This Week - 3/4/16

1.  550 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters. 
2. It’s not authentic homemade elk sausage unless someone pulls bullet shards from a piece.
3. After the death of his wife from breast cancer, actor Rick Moranis began an 18-year-long hiatus from acting to raise his children. 
4. It was pointed out to me in a staff meeting that I average receiving one e-mail every 45 seconds of the work day. #700PerDay
5. According to my middle child, outdated memes should be called, “memeries”.
6. “Dog Braces” are a thing.
7. The older my kids get, the more I’m entertained by their insults to each other; “Copernicus called – you’re not the center of the universe”.
8. A Japanese vegetable juice company has designed a new a wearable robot, named the “Tomatan”,  that dispenses tomatoes to the mouth area of runners. #18lbSecretWeapon
9. A recent study by the NHTSA and confirmed by the Monash University Accident Research Center indicates that driving with kids in the car is TWELVE times more distracting than talking on a cell phone. #DUH
10. Humans have continuously occupied Earth orbit for more than 15 years. Thank you ISS.
11. A ten-year psychological study at Butler University found that men who kissed their wives before leaving for work lived, on average, five years longer, earning 20 to 30 percent more than peers who left without a kiss.
12. Hockey player Sidney Crosby wears number 87, was born on 8/7/87, and signed a NHL contract $8.7 million a year. He hasn’t scored 87 goals in a season – yet.
13. 1 mole of marshmallows can cover the earth at a depth of 12 miles, or the US at a depth of 6500 miles. 
14. Originally comic hero Popeye didn't get his super strength from eating spinach - he got indestructibility from rubbing the head of a “magic chicken” named, “Bernice the Whiffle Hen”.
15. If the Xbox One’s voice command responded with the voice of the Star Trek LCARS computer – I’m betting every Trekkie would own one.
16. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry coined the phrase, “Trekkie” during a speech at a  convention and was immediately corrected by a rude fan stating they were, “Trekkers”. #TrekkieItIs