Jon22: The Website of Jonathan Dobres

“Hey, that’s really interesting.  Where did you find this out?”

“Oh, Jon told me.  Jon knows everything.”

Although flattering, that’s not exactly true.  I don’t know everything.  Calculus, for instance, has thus far remained outside the sphere of things I need to know.  But I know a lot of things that you might not, such as:

• A urinary tract infection can impair your brain more than a gunshot wound to the head.
• Japanese honeybees can defend themselves against the terrifying Asian Giant Hornet (actual name) by surrounding the hornet and vibrating until the predator overheats and dies.
• Chicken McNuggets are 56% corn.
• Nothing cancels a hair salon appointment faster than rain.  Trust me.
• We call knowing where (or what) you are “orientation” because navigators used to use East—in other words, towards the Orient—as their primary direction, not North.
• Pokémon was originally created out of Satoshi Tajiri’s love of entomology.  Can’t figure that one out (see Asian Giant Hornet, above).
• The United States of America is currently one of the longest lasting governments on Earth, clocking in at nearly 231 years of continuous democracy.
• The “Push for Signal” buttons at street intersections DO NOT turn green lights into red.  Can you imagine what that would do to the traffic grid?  Instead, they make the little Walking Man appear when the time is right.

So, what do you know that I don’t?