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Firing On All Synapses
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Nourishment For Your Brain Please enjoy this collec/on of
semi-‐useful, some/mes interes/ng, even humorous factoids about a variety of different topics from the
world we live in.
Content and slide design by Al Bonner.
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A gold fish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
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A gold fish cracker runs slightly higher at 5 seconds.
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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The weight of China’s 3-‐Gorges Reservoir, will /lt the earth’s axis by nearly an inch.
Heavy Water!
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2 Billion gallons of water used every day for golf course irriga/on in the U.S.
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3.7 Miles
Women in developing
countries walk an average of 3.7
miles a day to get water.
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If you fill a clear plas/c water boQle with creek water,
standpipe or puddle water and place it on a piece of
reflec/ve metal, in full sun for 6 hours, the UVA radia/on will kill viruses, parasites and bacteria in the water and make it safe to drink.
Safe Water!
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Hangover Cure?
Coconut water is known to cure a hangover and contains the same five electrolytes as
human blood.
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The number of Mexican Drug Cartel inflicted deaths since 2006.
16,140!
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200,000 people/yr. visit the Larraine Motel, site of Dr. Mar/n Luther
King Jr.’s assassina/on.
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Every day, an average of 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents.
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One-‐fi`h of Americans complain about sleeping problems.
56 million prescrip/ons for sleeping pills were wriQen in 2008.
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Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
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Fireflies do not bite, do not have pincers, do not carry diseases and have a life span of two months.
Fireflies are nocturnal luminous insects of the beetle family Lampyridae.
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Honeybees have to make about ten
million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.
Enjoy your slave-honey.
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The Praying Man/s is the only insect that can turn its head.
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Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.
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If you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear…
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What do you do with their
“wild” cousins?
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A wild pig popula/on can double in just four months.
4 Million Pigs Over 40 states
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500,000
Average number of Chia Pets sold each year .
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Music Milestones
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U2 360 Tour Stats
Shows: 44 Sellouts: 44
Gross: $311,637,730 AQendance: 3,071,290 Ave. Gross: $7,082,676 Ave. AQendance: 69,802
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hat's the best I can do.
S/ll relevant, s/ll producing hits, s/ll selling out.
Not bad for a bunch of old-‐guys.
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An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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An Elephant’s eye is much smaller
than it’s brain and weighs an
average of 9 lbs.
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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II, killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
R.I.P.
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An Ostrich Never Laughs.
Even when it sees another Ostrich with a piece of grass hanging out of it’s mouth.
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In the category of “it’s not
Rocket Science...”
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch per
year. Engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the
books in the building.
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In May 2008, engineers announced that the Tower had been stabilized,
and had stopped moving for the first time in its history.
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The average person will eat about 35,000
cookies in their lifetime.
If a person lives to be 75 years old, that’s 1.2 cookies a day.
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg plant?
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Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The average person will never eat eggplant.
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Apps
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Apple receives 15,000 new App submissions per week.
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95% of those Apps are approved.
Reasons Why 5% are rejected? 1. Doesn’t function as advertised.
2. Uses private API’s. 3. The App crashes.
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Zero
The number of people that have been diagnosed with brain tumors as a result of excessive cell phone use?
A published report in the Interna/onal Journal of Epidemiology (May 17, 2010) was inconclusive.
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The U.S. ranks 20th in the world in broadband penetration.
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Bermuda ranks #1 Yes! Bermuda
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3.8 cans are consumed every second, of every day.
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Who’s ea/ng all the SPAM?
Hawaii is the number one SPAM consuming state.
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In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge.
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Snails are considered to be one of the slowest creatures on earth.
Garden snails are the fastest. They can move about 55 yards per hour
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1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
According to U.S. News & World Report, there were more than 40 million unique visits to dating sites last year. -- that's about half the number of single adults in the U.S.
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THE END
Content and slide design by Al Bonner.
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