What I Learned This Week - 7/22/16

1.  510 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters 
2. Never ask a woman who is eating ice cream straight from the carton how she is doing.
3. Scientists believe that turtles evolved their shells not for defense but for better digging.
4. No matter how much I try to explain the concept to my kids, they will never understand what a feat of strength it was to roll down a car window at their age.
5. Texas Instruments has a near monopoly on the graphing calculator field, with over 90% of the sales and the base model specs and price have not changed in 10 years.
6. Since 1989, six-pack rings have been manufactured to be 100 percent photo-degradable, so the plastic will begin to disintegrate in just a few days, allowing animals to easily free themselves from the brittle and crumbling rings.
7. The CN tower in Toronto, Canada is a Pokémon Go gym and its exterior lights have been programmed to change color to the team that controls the gym. #GoMystic
8. I don’t understand why people are complaining about a game that actually gets kids out of the house.
9. In 1894, London and New York were "drowning" in horse poop, so much so that it was estimated that within 50 years, London streets would be buried in 9 feet of poop and horse carcasses - the invention of the automobile resolved the problem.
10. The blinking light atop the Capital Records Building spells out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code, and has done so since the building's opening in 1956.