What I Learned This Week - 5/6/16

1.  587 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters. 
2. There is a beer drinking contest that requires the beverage to be consumed as fast as possible……through the nose. #Ow #ClearSinuses
3. “Cotton candy chicken” is a thing – and not what you expect.
4. Hyper realistic masks of celebrities are my next work place torture device. #NeedCryingBaby
5. I renamed my wifi to “Searching…” and now my daughters’ friends now get mad when they walk into my house. #BummerNoService
6. Nobody “needs” the Whimsical Woodsman calendar.
7. “Google dorking” is a filtering technique that makes use of Google's advanced search services to locate valuable data or hard-to-find content.
8. A potato has two more chromosomes than a human.
9. The lump of chewed food you swallow is scientifically named a "bolus". #ImMakingItAVerb
10. I’ve come to the conclusion that emojis will basically become the modern equivalent of hieroglyphics.
11. “Star Wars: A New Hope” was the first movie ever to be played at San Diego ComicCon.
12. There is a movement with cosplayers to replace the Star Wars character stereotype of “Slave Leia” with “Hut-Slayer”. #ImOkWithThat #PreferJabbaSlayer
13. “Star Wars: A New Hope” was not the top grossing film the first weekend it opened and was beat out by “Smokey and the Bandit”. #OnlyTheWeekendNoWeekdays #ShownOnLessTheaters
14. The America's Got Talent top prize of one million dollars is paid out over 40 years.
15. The original Star Wars comics were published by Marvel comics a month before the initial movie release and continued until June 1986.
16. In 1858 Walt Whitman wrote a series of articles about “manly health” that broke down the details of a lot of today’s healthy habits (eg: exercise, good fat meats, developing good habits, stay away from syphilis….). #NothingAboutEpicBeards
17. The cordless drill is a critical rotary tool for eating corn-on-the-cob quickly. #YouTubeIt