What I Learned This Week - 3/2/18

1.  657 days until Star Wars Episode IX is in theaters.
2. The first person that penicillin was tested on was not allergic to penicillin. #whew #ThanksAnnMiller
3. If I had six fingers on one hand I could make a killing in bar bets in the how-many-fingers-am-I -holding-up-behind-my-back game. #maybe #allofthemAwww
4. The average car in space is a lot nicer than the average car on earth. #maybe
5. Russians can hack into elections, but not Olympic drug tests. #priorities
6. The figure skating jump “Salchow” was named after an actual skater (Ulrich Salchow) and not a combination of a pig and a cow. #TotallyThoughtItWasSowCow
7. Most biathletes don’t go both ways. #IfYouKnowWhatIMean
8. North Korea lost a “golden” opportunity to make a bobsled shaped like a nuclear weapon. #maybe
9. According to a coworker, new neighbors that question why you are shoveling six inches of snow in the middle of a snowstorm have never shoveled twelve inches of snow at the end of a snowstorm. #fact
10. A chicken burrito is just a breakfast burrito that was allowed to age. #maybe
11. If Dora was a true explorer, she would have made the map instead of using one. #fact
12. If you stay in the bath while you drain it, when the volume of bathwater is less than half, you change from “being in a bath” to “weird-cold-naked-man-in-a-bathtub”. #SoAFriendToldMe
13. Seeing a UPS truck as an adult is the childhood equivalent of seeing an ice cream truck. #SortOf
14. When self-driving cars become commonplace, cars currently known as automatic will likely become known as “manual” - and that bothers me on too many levels.
15. According to a disheveled guy named Steve on a crowded downtown elevator, it's only okay to steal someone's girlfriend if you’re the lead character in a movie….man. #RightInTheFeels
16. I subscribe to the theory that the U.S. Men’s Curling Team is likely a group of dads that were just trying to get away from their families for the weekend but somehow ended up competing in the Olympics. #LikleyNextAdamSandlerMovie
17. Never give me a yo-yo at an important business convention. #PutSomeonesEyeOut
18. You probablly shouldn’t give me a fidget spinner either, especially one that has fancy LEDs.