firing on all synapses

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.

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Content and slide design by Al Bonner.