I have a constant thirst for knowledge and learn something new just about every day. Today I'm starting a new blog series to document what some of those little things are that I've learned.

In the evening, after our Thanksgiving meal, we got to playing a game. This was a new travel trivia game my dad had found in the $5 bin at Ollies. The game had a two second time limit for answers, which kept it moving quickly, and the questions turned out to be relatively easy, meaning everyone had a decent chance of answering correctly and not feeling stupid. I learned a few things, the most memorable being that there is not just a single definition of a ton. I always knew as ton as 2000 pounds. It turns out that is a short ton, commonly used in the U.S. A long ton, on the other hand, is defined as 2,240 pounds and is used more commonly around the rest of the world. Both short and long tons are defined as 20 hundredweights, but a hundredweight is 112 pounds in the Imperial system and 100 pound in the U.S. system, accounting for the discrepancy in the two versions of a ton.

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