What I Learned This Week - 4/15/16

1.  608 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters. 
2. There are 4 million square miles of fertile land in Africa that can't be cultivated because tsetse flies keep killing farm animals.
3. You cannot play just one game of geometry wars.
4. Adding, “…as the prophecy foretold” to the end of a heated conversation in a meeting will cause the entire meeting to stop and rethink what has just been said.
5. If one has x-ray vision, I’m pretty sure they can still see if they close their eyes. #HideAndSeekCheaters
6. “Giant Flaming Jenga” is a thing.
7. As much fun as it sounds, don’t weed your garden with a blowtorch.
8. If you cut a fun-sized Nestle Crunch bar to read “INCH”, it actually measures exactly one inch.
9. “Yoga ball volleyball” is an actual intermural sport at some universities.
10. Graffiti artists in some cities are replacing the symbol for anarchy with the equations to actually graph the symbol. #NerdsRule
11. Pouring hot maple sap onto snow to make a chewy like sweet dessert is called “maple taffy”. #OhCanada
12. The drug, Vicodin, is six times stronger than codine, which led to the name VI (Roman numeral six)-condin.
13. The name of the old webmail “Hotmail” was chosen as a homage to 'HTML'.
14. The term “Herd” refers to large groups of herbivores, if they are carnivores it is a “Pack.”
15. In WWII, England used “explosive rats” to attack German Trains and power plants. Germans typically disposed of rat carcasses by throwing them into the boilers, where a “rat-bomb” would explode and cause damage. #GreatNameForARockBand
16. There is a slight possibility that all the ancient Greek statues are actually victims of Medusa. #NotReally.
17. If life gives you melons you’re either dyslexic or in a strip club.
18. The uninhabited rock known as Hans Island, has been the center of a “violent” war between Canada and Denmark where each party infrequently leaves a bottle of schnapps or Canadian whisky on the rock.
19. I can’t logically explain, why the words “pony” and “bologna” rhyme.
20. “Purgatory maybe” is my new go to response to yes/no questions. #HellYes #HeavensNo
21. According to my youngest, the reason one cannot walk through a mirror is because your reflection is in the way.