What I Learned This Week - 8/5/16

1.  496 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters 
2. In the movie, “the Karate Kid”, the final kick issued by Daniel-san was illegal according to USANKF Sport Karat Rules and Johnny should have won. #JusticeForJohnny
3. “V-8-powered-chainsaw” is a thing.
4. According to my middle child, painting the dog’s toenails is not called a manicure or pedicure, it is a “pawdicure”. #ShesGoingPlaces
5. When snarky people ask me if I am twelve, my go to response is, “…and a half”.
6. A colleague pointed out that if Trump really was, “friend to the gays”, one of them would have fixed his hair and make-up by now. #truth.
7. The sentence, “The sentence is a sentence” is a sentence. #sentenception
8. In 1996, Mike Tyson paid an aide $300,000 whose sole function was to dress in fatigues and shout “guerrilla warfare” at press conferences. #NeverSawHim
9. The average length of a freight train in the US is 2000 meters or 1.24 miles long.