You can easily find the number of days between two dates on excel

1. You can easily find the number of days between two dates on excel by putting the beginning and end dates in a column each and simply subtracting them. Excel can recognize them as values.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP030561111033.aspx#Calculate the number of days between two dates

In 2006 there were over 22,000 cases of alcohol related deaths

1. In 2006 there were over 22,000 cases of alcohol related deaths. Males make up over 16,500 of this 22,000. This excludes alcohol related accidents.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf

There were 7,780 hate crimes in the US in 2008

1. In the year 2008, there were 7,780 single-bias hate crimes spanning over 9,683 victims. Of these, over 50% were racially motivated (72.6% of which anti-black). Another 19.5 percent were religious based (65.7% of which anti-Jewish). Hate crimes stemming from sexual-orientation made up another 16.7% (58.6% of which anti-male homosexual). The percentage made up by ethnicity based hate crimes was 11.5% (64% of which anti-Hispanic). The last, but not least, 1% was made up of disability bias (57% of which anti-mental disability).
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/incidents.html

Caron Butler chews through 12 plastic straws a game

1. Caron Butler chews through 12 plastic straws a game
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=4945104

Utah is trying to criminalize certain miscarriages

1. Utah is trying to criminalize certain miscarriages
http://www.examiner.com/x-7732-AntiEstablishment-Examiner~y2010m2d24-Utah-criminalizes-certain-miscarriages

Women soldiers cannot be aboard submarines

1. In 2010 women soldiers cannot be aboard submarines.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/23/women.sub.duty/index.html?hpt=T2

There have been about 2 trillion Google searches

1. The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm
2. There have been about 2 trillion Google searches
http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/05/how-many-searches-has-google-done/

The mechanism of action for use of marijuana as glaucoma treatment is not known

1. Currently the only treatment for cataracts is eye surgery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract#Treatment
2. Although studies show affective treatment of glaucoma by marijuana, the mechanism of action to lower Intraocular pressure is not known.
http://one.aao.org/CE/PracticeGuidelines/Therapy_Content.aspx?cid=9871fa42-cf40-4c1f-b05c-c816d5f93126
3. Men are 1.6 times more likely than women to have mild cognitive impairment, even after factoring in such variables as age and marital status.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=88734

Beer Pong was started at Dartmouth College frats

1. Beer Pong is generally regarded to have had its origins within the drinking culture of the Dartmouth College fraternities in the 1950s and '60s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_pong

Rum is made from sugarcane

1. Rum is distilled beverage from sugarcane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum
2. Citizen Kane is the story of a roman à clef that examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, a character based upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and Welles' own life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane

knoweldge is endless

1. Knowledge is endless. Trying to understand multiple areas to any detail, pointless.

Distance from the earth to the moon is about 240K miles

1. Saint Rita of Cascia is an Italian Augustinian saint who married at the age of 12.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_of_Cascia#The_forehead_wound
2. The distance from the earth to the moon is 238,857 miles.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_distance_from_Earth_to_the_moon

Mardi Gras has been celebrated in what is now Neo Orleans since 1690's

1. Mardi Gras has been celebrated in what is now New Orleans since 1690's. The area, called Louisiane, covers the area of what is today Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras#United_States

it is actually catercorner not kitty corner

1. The word kitty-corner comes from the actual term cater-corner from the french quatre corner. Over time the word evolved to 'catty' and eventually 'kitty' corner because of the resemblance of the original term, cater, to a household cat.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catercorner

The pre-frontal cortex is in charge of imagination/worry

1. The frontal lobe above the eye-brows rearranges words, concepts, symbols, and memories into new patterns. The lower frontal lobe, above the eyes, has the job of stopping a person from getting into trouble through wrong actions.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/hidden-talents/brain/113-left.html

U.S is number 6 in the world in Per Capita divorce rate.

1. The United States is 6th in the world in per capita divorce rate at 3.6 divorces per 1,000 people per year while Mexico has 0.62 divorces per 1,000 people per year. In other words, about 10% of the entire US population (20-70) is divorced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_rate
http://www.meninmarriage.com/article05.htm

Master Chief John-117 is a character from Halo

1. Master Chief John-117 is a character from Halo. Originally named John and born in 2511, he first lived with his family on the human colony planet Eridanus II. In 2517, John and seventy-four other children his age are covertly taken from their homes and replaced with flash clones to hide the kidnapping. The original children are brought to planet Reach, one of the UNSC's headquarters, to begin intense physical and psychological training to become SPARTAN-II supersoldiers. They are assigned new identification numbers instead of last names; John becomes known as John-117.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Chief_%28Halo%29

Each average child costs a bit over $400,000 to raise.

1. For a middle income family, raising and putting an average child through college costs a bit over $400,000. The first year is the most expensive at $11,000 (College years not included). Kids are cheapest at 12, costing $7,700.
http://www.babycenter.com/cost-of-raising-child-calculator
http://money.ca.msn.com/retirement/gordonpowers/article.aspx?cp-documentid=21951242

Chalk is made of Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate)

1. Chalk is made of Gypsum, a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsum
2. Hare Karishna is based around pure love of God. Karishna means "all-attractive" and Hare is his energy.
http://harekrishna.com/col/philo/phi-what.html

In rain you get more wet by running.

1. Over short distances in the rain, you get more wet by running.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/10509

Swimming has the hottest women (10 of top 50)

1. Swimming has the hottest women (10 of top 50). Two big surprises. ONE: Golf has a few (3) and Track and field girls actually are tied for second with tennis and volleyball (6). TWO, only ONE gymnast made the list ONE.
http://www.popcrunch.com/the-50-hottest-women-of-sports/

The expected Superbowl related spending is $8.9 billion for 2010 with each house spending about $52 on food/beer/snacks

1. The expected Superbowl related spending is $8.9 billion for 2010 with each house spending about $52 on food/beer/snacks
http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2010/02/light-friday-super-bowl-xliv-by-the-numbers.html

The traffic light sensors are set off by the metal in the object passing over it

1. The color red of street-lights is chosen because it is associated with blood and danger. The color for "go" used to be clear but when the filters for red-light fell out the light was clear. Furthermore, from the distant, stars and sun's glare were sometimes mistaken for the "go" signal. Green is associated with nature and is calming and was eventually chosen
http://www.myuniversalfacts.com/2005/10/why-are-traffic-lights-red-yellow-and.html
2. The traffic light sensors are set off by the metal in the object passing over it, not weight.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061022163125AAcaKke
3. The most covered song of all-time is Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles), it has been covered 131 different times.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-10-most-covered-songs-1052165.html

The "S" thing below is called a super-s-stussy.

1. New Year resolutions on average last a month
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/will-your-resolutions-last-to-february/
2. The “S” thing below is called a super-s-stussy. You may have seen it since it was very popular in the 90’s.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/super-s-stussy

Women feel colder than men do because they actually are better at conserving HEAT in their core.

1. When typing “Chinese people” into google search, at “Chinese p” the second option in suggestions is “Chinese people eating babies.”
2. Women feel colder than men do because they actually are better at conserving HEAT in their core. This leaves their extremities feeling cold. It is possible that this is the result of evolution to keep a fetus at more constant temperature.

Green is the least common car color

1. If you are a US citizen living and working outside of the US you must still file US income taxes.

http://law.freeadvice.com/tax_law/income_tax_law/filing-taxes-abroad.htm

2. This is the structure of Lactose:

http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/science_of_cooking/Lactose_structure.gif

3. Green is the least common car color. Only about 1% of cars are green.

http://most-popular.net/car-color

Elevators in Geisel supposedly hold 20 people

1. Elevators in Geisel Library at UCSD supposedly hold 20 people. Next time you are in an elevator with what you think is an awkwardly high number of people count how many people are in the elevator and compare it to the maximum.
2. White chocolate is not considered chocolate. It is actually a mixture of cocoa butter (product of the cocoa bean and not cocoa bean itself), sugar, and often vanilla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_chocolate

3. Cocaine is obtained from the Coca plant and has no relationship to the Theobroma cacao plant that gives cocoa beans for chocolate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine

Introduction

Yes I've created a blog, a zlog I like to called it. I've had NUMEROUS people tell me on countless occasions to create a blog. I never thought of doing it because I always told them I don't know what I'd want to write about. The problem was I wanted my blog to have its own personality and character and be about something and not me just talking about my day and at the moment I had nothing. But like everything that people tell me or I see, it sticks in some place of my mind. Finally today I realized what my blog was going to be about. It is the number one in the second post I will make but if you are like many people you have read the second post because it appeared at the top so it was the number one in the post you've already read. It wont matter on other posts of mine so don't feel like you have to always go back.
So what will the blog be about?
This blog will be about the things I see and learn every day.
That simple.
I have been told and feel that I see things that most people don't see. I also am nutritious for actually looking up things that randomly come up in conversation and I do not know. Furthermore, I like telling people you learn something every day. Therefore, I will post here as many or as little things as I learned on a given day. It obviously is not to say I have not learned more that day or didn't notice anything else, but definitely I have not learned less. Think about it. Deeeep stuff there.
This is just a pure spur of the moment thing HONESTLY brought on by the number one of the next post.

Now lets establish the ground rules:
1. There will NOT be anything repeated twice on purpose.
2. I will try my best to post at least one thing, no matter how stupid, EVERY day
3. I will NOT post anything I learn that can harm/bother/or is about someone in particular.

3a. If you feel like a post is brought on by you there are two possibilities: You are wrong (more likely) or you have truly taught me something about the world ONE, thank you, TWO, you don't have to tell the world in the comment box :)
3b. If you happen to know the origin of a post or were there with me when something happened, refrain from putting it as a comment. This blog is not about YOU. Just keep it a secret between me and you.
4 I reserve the right to delete stupid comments that break rule 3b.

4a. Do feel free to comment about how you feel about any post. Sharing is caring.
5. Most of the observations will be either funny, random, or most likley, dumb. Some of the observations maybe cynical and have deeper meanings. Don't ask me what any of my post mean. Like any good author I will not tell you and will deny its existence
6. The title of each post will be the most important, or interesting, or sometimes the only thing, I learned that day but the posts will be in order they happened throughout the day.
7. If I learn something after I make a post for that day, that thing will just go onto the top of the list for next day's.
8. I will SERIOUSLY TRY, for at least one entire year, to post SOMETHING every single day. I may miss a day here or there because of life and in that case I will write the one or few things down on my phone and make multiple posts on a single day, each back-dated to the day they refer to.

9. NOTHING I post comes from visiting a website particularly to find an information to post on here. In other words, I will ABSOLUTELY NOT visit a website for the sole purpose of learning something to post on here. If I make an observation or have a question I ABSOLUTELY WILL visit a website and will try to include the URL to it.

That's it for all the do's and don'ts...this is my zlog, I donno why you are reading it, but enjoy.