One Piece Spoiler thread (read, do not enter if you aren't reading manga)

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Oda is about to do a timeskip? Maybe? Will he show us breif moments of what goes on in these two years? or will he allow the anime to fill us in on the going ons of the two years as he has asked them to do on several other occassions?

The One Piece manga has just gone on a 4 week haitus. I for one am shocked and surprised by this, yet very much anticipating whats going to happen. So what have we learned in the past couple or so chapters?

Luffy and the gang will be split for 2 years.
Mantra is a form of Haki.
Haki is a means of rendering the devil fruits useless.
Garp and Sengoku resigned.
Buggy possibly a Shichibukai?
Jimbei possible 10th cruemember?
Coby quickly rising in ranks.
Capt. Morgan still hasn't returned for Luffy's head since he broke out of prison.
Zoro training under Hawkeyes!
Usopp is a full of shit (literally, he's fat and maybe when he works off the weight he won't lie so much).
Robin is working with Luffy's dad, Dragon.
Ace is dead.
Whitebeard dead.
Shanks is still a badass.
Garp wants to kill Akainu.
People higher then Sengoku have power over the Shichibukai.
Aokiji possible new pan-fleet admiral (replacing Sengoku).
The three types of haki revealed, and explained (finally!).
The rio poneglyph lies at the end of the grand-line!
Everyone understands that its important to support luffy more now rather than rely on him.
Blackbeard aiming to replace Whitebeard as part of the Yonkou? what is his aim?
Blackbeard potentially direct rival of Luffy?
Smokey got promoted!
Luffy quickly made connection between Haki and being able to hit Smokey!

So where do we want to start on this?