firing on all synapses
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Please enjoy this collection of semi-useful, sometimes interesting, even humorous factoids about a variety of different topics from the world we live in. This is intended to inform, entertain and showcase some of my presentation design abilities.TRANSCRIPT
Firing On All Synapses
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.
A gold fish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
A gold fish cracker runs slightly higher at 5 seconds.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The weight of China’s 3-‐Gorges Reservoir, will /lt the earth’s axis by nearly an inch.
Heavy Water!
2 Billion gallons of water used every day for golf course irriga/on in the U.S.
3.7 Miles
Women in developing
countries walk an average of 3.7
miles a day to get water.
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!
Hangover Cure?
Coconut water is known to cure a hangover and contains the same five electrolytes as
human blood.
The number of Mexican Drug Cartel inflicted deaths since 2006.
16,140!
200,000 people/yr. visit the Larraine Motel, site of Dr. Mar/n Luther
King Jr.’s assassina/on.
Every day, an average of 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents.
One-‐fi`h of Americans complain about sleeping problems.
56 million prescrip/ons for sleeping pills were wriQen in 2008.
Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
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.
Honeybees have to make about ten
million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.
Enjoy your slave-honey.
The Praying Man/s is the only insect that can turn its head.
Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.
If you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear…
What do you do with their
“wild” cousins?
A wild pig popula/on can double in just four months.
4 Million Pigs Over 40 states
500,000
Average number of Chia Pets sold each year .
Music Milestones
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
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.
An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
An Elephant’s eye is much smaller
than it’s brain and weighs an
average of 9 lbs.
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.
An Ostrich Never Laughs.
Even when it sees another Ostrich with a piece of grass hanging out of it’s mouth.
In the category of “it’s not
Rocket Science...”
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.
In May 2008, engineers announced that the Tower had been stabilized,
and had stopped moving for the first time in its history.
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.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg plant?
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The average person will never eat eggplant.
Apps
Apple receives 15,000 new App submissions per week.
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.
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.
The U.S. ranks 20th in the world in broadband penetration.
Bermuda ranks #1 Yes! Bermuda
3.8 cans are consumed every second, of every day.
Who’s ea/ng all the SPAM?
Hawaii is the number one SPAM consuming state.
In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge.
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
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.
THE END
Content and slide design by Al Bonner.