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Where do most animals live?

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50% of all animals live in the jungle.

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IBM’s Watson. How fast can it read?

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Watson can read one million books per second. REF: 60 Minutes

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On American Greed, they profiled a family shoplifting ring that would travel from city to city shoplifting as a professional.

The husband would rip off the security device. The daughter would block the end of the aisle and be a look out. The wife wore a large dress with large slits cut into it for stashing items quickly. Also she wore a long shawl that covered 1/3 of her dress to hide any bulges.

On leaving the store, the daughter would act like her cell phone triggered the theft alarm and engage the store employees in conversation while her parents made their getaway.

Upon their arrest, the parents only got 4 years in jail, and the daughter only one year.

So, how much was their total take?

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Their total take was 7.1 Million dollars!

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Stars. We look up in the night skies and gaze upon them, but most of them are not there!

They are called Ghost Stars. Why?

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We only see the light from Ghost Stars that was left in that spot in the sky weeks, months, years and centuries ago. They all have moved on and many are millions of miles away from the speck of light we see in the sky.

For example, take the big dipper. Some star light is decades old, and other stars in that constellation are a snap shot of time when the Revolutionary war was being fought in America.

Some stars travel close to light speed, while slower stars like our Sun circles the Milky Way at 483,000 mph.

The average star light we see is from about 30 years ago.

REF: Google searches.

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So how fast is the Earth traveling through our solar system?

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The Earth travels 1.6 million miles a day, which is 66,627 mph.

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How far does our Sun travel in one year?

How far does the Earth travel in one year?

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Our Sun travels 4,233,495,000 miles in Milky Way in one year.

The Earth travels 583,985,655 miles on it’s journey around the Sun each year.

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Can you walk in deep water on the ocean floor with no equipment?

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At 80 feet of water, your body will no longer float, and you can walk on the ocean floor without floating upward.

REF: Nova, Great Human Odyssey.

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Why do Reindeer have antlers?

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Reindeer antlers are a built in radiator to get rid of heat. Same reason Elephants have large ears. Blood flows through their ears and the breeze cools their blood.

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Other than humans, what other animal has domesticated pets?

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Ants! Ants have “mealy Bugs” for pets.

The mealy bugs strip other bugs down to the part of them the ants can use for food. Then the ants take the food for eating.

Ants can walk upside down on a glass ceiling while carrying 100 times its weight. It has sticky feet.

Ants can withstand turning in a centrifuge that would crush an astronaut.

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Living alone causes early death. REF: Time mag. Feb. 2018

Loneliness is on the rise, and feeling lonely has been found to increase a person’s risk of dying early by 26%–and to be even worse for the body than obesity and air pollution.

To be more social, get involved in something. Friendships are always about something. Whatever you are into, someone else is too.

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The Earth’s magnetic field has reversed 282 times in the last 10 million years.

The Califlower and Sequioa Tree are Rendezvous point #36 in our human Genome and DNA. This happened one Billion, 600 MYA! Roughly 1 and 1/2 Billion years ago. REF: The Ancestors Tale.–Richard Dawkins

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6,000 pedestrian deaths in 2017 in America many using smartphone. Ref: NBC Nightly news 2/28/18

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Spiders. On a rural acre of land; they consume 40,000 lbs of insects. That is the loaded weight of a trailer on a tractor trailer.

Worms eat rotten corpses of insects, plants, animals and people. They reclaim the nitrogen from these corpses and exude the nitrogen in their casing [feces]. The casings disolve into the dirt and become fertile topsoil. That permits plants, trees and food to grow. If we did not have worms, there would be no food! It would be very correct to thank worms for our food we eat each meal!

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Telemeres store our DNA and the blueprints to make new cells.

In a normal lifetime, the human heart pumps enough blood to fill rail road tank cars. 25 Miles of them!

When you look into a room, you can only see a small segment of it. Your brain fills in [confabulates] 90% of it at first glance.

A uranium pellet the size of a cigarette butt powers a nuclear submarine for years!

Columbus never knew he discovered a new continent. He thought he was on the West coast of India.

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Grand Canyon was a mountain range 6 miles high.

Grand Canyon has been under water 8 times!

India has 20 languages spoken in their country.

United States spends $80 billion per year to jail prisoners. Ref; 60 minutes.

Only one moose calf in ten will survive its first year. Ref: Denali tour book.

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Alaska in mid-winter the sun will stay hidden for all but four hours each day and temps may drop to 40 or 50 degrees below zero. Ref: Denali tour book.

A Kodiak bear can eat 200,000 Soapberries a day!

Alaskan birds eat mosquitoes for protein necessary for their reproduction. Ref: Denali tourbook.

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Ref: NBC Nightly news 3/6/18

Plastic trash filling our oceans.

The UN estimates that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish!

Animals big and small ingest the plastic and this ends up inside our own bodies!

Source: William Pfeiffer, plastic oceans foundation chairman.

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Ref: The enigma of death valley. Amazon Prime.

Earth’s crust averages 25 miles thick.

Death Valley Calif. is only 15 miles thick because tectonic plates are being stretched and Death Valley is a thin spot. Earth’s crust is thickest in the Himalayas at 40 miles thick.

The “Race Track” is where rocks up to 700 lbs. have moved up to 3,000 feet on Death Valley’s floor… Mystery?

What happens is when it rains, the racetrack surface is smooth as teflon then the valley shape funnels winds up to 90 mph which pushes the rocks across the floor!

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“The Egg: Life’s perfect invention” PBS 2019.

In 1862, an American called Thomas Wentworth Higginson stated, “I think if required upon pain of death to name the most perfect thing in the universe, it would be a bird’s egg.”

There are over 10,000 species of birds today. Some birds eat snail shells for the calcium to create an egg.

The embryo must breathe through tiny pores in the egg shell. A chicken egg has 10,000 of them. They are connected to the blood supply of the embryo.

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The egg white is its defense against bacteria attacking the embryo.

As the chick is breaking out of the egg, the shell is getting thinner, because the egg’s calcium is being infused into the chic’s bones!

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Chernobyl: Not to be human inhabited for 20,000 years. Ref: Our Planet

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Are bones dead or alive?

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Bones are not like rocks; the contain live cells, nerves, blood vessels and pair receptors which is the reason it hurts when they break.

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How many bones are in your body?

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You have somewhere between 206 and 213 bones. Why the range?
Some people have more bones in their fingers, toes, vertebrae and ribs than others do.
Fun fact: When you were born, you had around 270 bones, but some of them fused together over time. Like your skull for example.

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Think about the enormity of this: lifespans have doubled in just a few generations. There are now almost a billion people over the age of 60 years and by 2050 this will reach 2.1 billion.

What is the average lifespan of all your relatives before modern times?

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Most of your ancestors that lived thousands of years ago died at about 25 years old.

Many, many died in birth, childhood and from deadly diseases that they didn’t know even existed!

Back in Bible times, people thought that demons caused diseases, sickness and eventual death.

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Do we lose muscle mass as we age?

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As we age, we lose muscle mass from 3 to 8% a decade starting at around age 30. That increases the risk of weight gain. Muscle is much more metabolically active than fat.

If you maintain more muscle, you’ll burn more calories at rest. __AARP Jan. 2023

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Voyage of the Continents – Prime

Ep #1. Mountains are formed many different ways. In Africa, the mountains were formed by metorites from space! Why no craters like the moon?
Because Earth has plate tectonics which destroy craters!

Earth also has erosion that destroys craters. The Earth is a dynamic living planet.

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Paleo magnetism.
Dike: A ditch. Dikes house tiny pieces of iron which becomes magnetized. The Earth’s magnetic field moves iron all over the planet. As this field moves, it also moves the giant continents. Since each continent houses iron, the continents are pulled together by magnetic attraction! Yes, continents are giant magnets!

Google Paleomagnetism and how is it evidence for plate tectonics”?

MN: REM our poles (North pole and South poles) flip every billion years or so. Petrified trees in Africa grew in a cold climate nearly 300 Million years ago. Trees got uprooted perhaps by a flood and buried in sediments. The sediments cut off their oxygen, which prevented them from rotting.

Then in a very slow process, the wood was replaced by quartz that crystalized in the sediment. Thus it turned into a fossil!

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Which is traveling faster. A .45 bullet or a person walking down the sidewalk?

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664 mph is speed of the bullet

994 mph Earth rotation speed
107,500 mph Earth orbits the Sun speed
447,400 mph Earth being slung around the Galaxy by Black hole.
555,894 Total speed we are traveling walking down the sidewalk.
We are moving 842 times faster than a .45 bullet!

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Unleaded gasoline. Since America has outlawed leaded gasoline the lead in an American’s blood had declined by 75%.

When lead gets into your body, the body thinks it is calcium and stores it in your bones.

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Then, when your body needs more calcium, it releases the lead into your blood. Then the blood gets to your brain, it damages our reproductive system and the complete nervous system, not to mention damages to all your organs.

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Worldwide car crashes kill 2,000 people everyday.

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When the female lion is in heat, she will stay with the male lion about four days and mate. About 200 times in that four days!
That figures to 2.08 times each hour for 96 hours! Boy am I sore!