What I Learned This Week - 4/1/16

1.  622 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters. 
2. A coworker believed the famous parody singer was actually a band named “Weird Owl”.
3. The Oxford Dictionary defines “Gorp” as “to eat greedily” and not “trail mix” or “Good Ole Raisins and Peanuts”. #LostABarBet
4. “Deja Moo” is the feeling you’ve experienced this BS before.
5. The TV series “the Bachelor” is about a man, dating multiple women at once watched by women who despise men dating multiple women at once.
6. According to the USGS, the USA uses almost 45 percent as much water as it did in 1970 even though the population is 1.5 times that of 1970.
7. When AOL 4.0 launched in 1998, they used ALL of the world's CD production capacity for several weeks. #NiceCoaster
8. In the TV series "House," actor Hugh Laurie actually developed a limp while acting like he had one. #BadMechanics #CaneUsedImproperly
9. No one will laugh if you drop a bag of frozen sugar snap peas and exclaim, “OMG, I just pea-ed on the floor!”
10. After Easter egg hunts it should be mandatory for the kids to hide beer for the adults to find. #NewTraditions
11. There is an app that teaches a person how to survive all the different ways a plane can crash. #LetThatSinkIn
12. There is a golf course in Australia with full-grown bull sharks living in the water hazards.
13. There is a section of route 66 in New Mexico that has musical rumble strips. If you “accidentally” drive on the rumble strips while driving the speed limit, you will hear “America the Beautiful”.
14. Musician, Matthew Herbert, is using lasers to create playable records out of flour tortillas. #NachoMan
15. If you shave a kiwi it looks like a potato. #DoesNotTasteLikeOne
16. According to my middle child, a pizza is a real time pie chart of how much pizza there is left to eat. #SoIsPie
17. I don’t know why a group of squid is not called a “squad”, but a “shoal”.
18. Nutella uses ¼ of the world’s hazelnuts supply annually.
19. Out of 46,000 discovered species of spider, only a single one has been found to be a herbivore. #NotFromCalifornia
20. The sounds that the Sarlacc made in the movie, “Return of the Jedi” were partly made by the noises the production crew's stomachs made after they ate pizza.