What I Learned This Week - 11/14/25

1.  I’m fairly certain no man has ever said, “Man that woman would be hot if her eyelashes were longer”. #ButterflyWings
2. There’s a particular blank stare non-gen-x-ers will give you if you sing “Shooting at the walls of heartache” and wait for them to make finger guns and sing back the next line. #BangBang 
3. Charlie Chaplin entered a look-alike contest and lost. #Wasn’tBlackAndWhite
4. From the time it was discovered to the time it was denounced as a planet, Pluto never completed one trip around the sun. #Woah
5. The Ottoman Empire still existed when the Nintendo company was created. #WTF
6. The Nintendo company originally started in 1889 and manufactured playing cards. #TheMoreYouKnow
7. In 1932 there was a “war” between emus and the Australian Army and the emus eventually won. #GoBirds
8. More people are killed each year by vending machines than by sharks. #TheyAreStealthy
9. A moose can dive underwater down to nearly twenty feet in search of food. #NoScubaGear
10. There are signs in Florida that read “Do not feed or molest the alligators” and a part of me really wants to know the origin story of the sign. #Obvious
11. Soy milk is not created by adding soy sauce to milk and tastes as bad as you’d expect. #maybe
12. According to a coworker, the black jelly bean tastes like corn syrup, Jägermeister, eye shadow, and Cure songs and I really don’t have an argument for that. #TheBestBean