Some Interesting Facts Segment 3 Flashcards
300,000 Estimated age in years of fossils now believed to be the oldest known remains of Homo Sapiens. These fossils discovered in Morocco are more than 100,000 years older than the previous record. REF: Time 6/26/17
$850,000 Amount of money a diamond ring bought for about $13 at a London flea market sold for at a Sotheby’s auction.
Repackage more tha 86 million metric tons of plastics is
thought to be in the oceans right now.
Musician Pharrel Williams worked on a denim collection made from plastic waste. REF: Time
Longest meal: Sausage 38.9 miles long and weighs 45 tons.
Tidbits:
Camera watch:
Chicago has 29,000 cameras. Ref: Wormhole.
Gaming estimated at 206 billion worldwide compared to 100 million in 1995.
Bonanza lasted for 14 seasons. After the 4th season, everyone wore the exact same clothes for the last 10 years of the show. This saved lots of money as they could use archive scenes in new shows!
We have had 17 ice ages in the last 200 million years.
Charles Darwin was a Parson. He just happened to be invited on the Beagle as a dinner guest before he discovered Evolution.
New Hampshire’s minimum marriage age is 13 years old.
500,000 number of children under 5 who die of diarrhea each year worldwide.
International shark attacks on average, there are only six fatalities worldwide each year.
The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported in April that at least 100 men in Chechnya suspected of being gay had been tortured. Honor killings: the newspaper said 26 people had been killed as of May 22.
California City settles hijab lawsuit. Ref: Time mag. 8.28.2017
The city of Long Beach, Calif., agreed to pay $85,000 to a Muslim woman who filed suit after her hijab was removed by police after she was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
The police updated its guidelines on head coverings.
How trick or treating arrived in America
Time mag. 11/6/17
On Hallowtide, the eve of All Saints’ Day the poor went to the homes of the wealthy and offered to pray for the recently departed in that household; it was believed that more prayers meant a soul was more likely to be saved. The rich then rewarded the poor with food and beer.
After the Protestant Reformation, the idea that souls could be saved in this way began to lose popularity in many of the new denominations. Some people kept up the tradition but its religious connection faded, even among Catholics. By the 1840’s, when a wave of Irish and Scottish immigrants brought the custom to the U.S., it was basically a secular pastime.
By 1930’s America had a new term for the old tradition: trick or treating.
HEARTS
Time mag. 11/6/17
20 Americans die every day while waiting for a heart transplant.
Because so many people have died from the opioid epidemic, there have been more potential donor organs infected with hepatitis C in recent years which get rejected. Cases of hepatitis C nearly tripled from 2010 to 2015. Experts attribute this to a rise in injection drug use. Well, these hearts are rejected as a donor heart because of the hepatitis C. But now they are transplanting these hep C hearts into patients then curing the hep C with new powerful drugs. This makes the waiting line much shorter.
[MN: Kinda ironic that drug user dies but their heart saves a life
elsewhere.]
3,991 Number of people in the U.S. currently on the waiting list for a heart transplant.
3,191 Number of heart transplants performed in the U.S. in 2016.
The Air Bus has 300 miles of rivets. 20,000 rivets on each Jet!
It takes 2 Million construction hours to build one!
Which cat family animal has the most powerful bite?
The Jaguar.
Ref: Time mag. 2/26/18
People smuggling.
People getting moved against their will: 800,000.
93% scrimped and borrowed to uproot themselves.
$35 Billion a year business, people smuggling.
Smuggle fee from South Asia to United States: $10,000.
in 2015, every 30th person on earth was living in a country where they were not born.
Local coyote smuggler fee to guide through Central America to Mexico enroute destination to United States. She averages $800 per month. After payoffs along the way, she nets $120 per person. She even has references to get more customers!
Ref: Time mag. 5/21/18
El Chapo
15,000 heroin related deaths in 2016 in the U.S., a five fold increase since 2010.
Mexican cartels fighting against rival cartels have killed 119,000 over the last decade.
[MN: Compare this to WW I. In WW I, 116,516 Americans were killed.]
El Chapo is a hero in poor Mexican villages because he pays for paved roads, pays hospital bills for the poor. He is their government.
Smart phones. Americans on average, touch their phones an astounding 2,617 times a day. Ref: AARP bulletin Dec. 2017.
Ref: Time 9/10/17 America has 200,000 people that are just barely concious. Right now in the U.S., 200,000 (averaged) Americans have suffered sufficient brain trauma to be classified as minimally conscious. 20% of minimally conscious patients recover well enough to return to the community and resume their lives. Others never do. Still others drift at the functional margins, needing just a boost to cross the line into self-sufficiency.
In 2017, 15 million vacation scams were run. They would show beautiful homes when actual house is a dump! People send their money and arrive at a dump! Ref: NBC Nightly. 7/20/18
Bill and Melinda Gates spent One Billion dollars to pay tuition for 20,000 poverty students to a bachelor’s degree in Florida. Ref: 60 Minutes, 4/29/18
20,000 Americans died from Flu in 2017! Ref: ABC News
Trump received 413 million from his father and was a millionaire by the age of 8! Ref: Channel 5 local news.
Coral Reefs provide 70% of the world’s oxygen! NBC Nightly News 10.6.2018
“The Ultimate Cruise Ship” Netflix original 2018.
Top heavy is a very dangerous concern on ships. In 1907, Italy launched its new ship the SS Principessa Jolanda into the water and it capsized and was lost.
After the Titantic, ships were required to carry more lifeboats on the main deck. In the Summer of 1915, the SS Eastland, with 2,500 passengers for a Chicago river cruise was about to sail. It rolled over and capsized. 844 people died! [MN: I think the people all rushed to one side of the ship to wave goodbye. Not mentioned in the story.]
On a modern cruise ship, each item on board is weighed and catalogged on its position on the ship. This is about 20,000 items.
Vibration from propellers is very important. Every part of the cruise ship must be tested with vibration sensors to assure total vibration free comfort runs throughout the entire vessel.
A cruise ship propeller is huge, 30 tons. It takes special alloys and engineering to not cause cavatation air bubbles. The bubbles bounce against the hull and make the ship vibrate severe enough to shake dinner plates off the table and the vibration makes a horrible loud noise which is uncomfortable to hear.
This 30 ton propeller takes 3 weeks to cool down from casting, then anotheer week before it can be ground smooth.
Before installation they will grind off about one ton of surface bronze to make the surface smooth and have no imperfections. This grinding by grinders takes another four weeks!
950 MILLION. Average number of hours per day that users spent on Facebook’s services at the end of 2017, according to the company. REF: Time 9/17/18
6K Average number of tweets posted per second worldwide, according to internet live stats. REF: Time 9/17/18
In 2015, nearly 3,000 children were killed by an accidental gunshot. –REF Ch 5 local news 17 Dec 2018
Over 700 women die every year from pregnancy or child birth in the United States. – REF: NBC Nightly News
In 2018, Americans spent $80 billion playing state lotterries. – 60 minutes 1/28/19
In the 20th century we doubled our life spans because of our understanding of genitics. – The evolution of us. Episode #2.
“President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims in 649 days of office as President.” –The Washington Post, NBC nightly 11/5/18
Murder in Mexico.
29,000 murders in the last year. Only 4% end up with an arrest and trial. – NBC Nightly 7/11/18
“The Mexican Cartel has killed more people in the last decade than were killed in WWI.” Time Magazine 2018.
The Octopus has only 1/3 of its brain in the head. The rest are in the arms and skin.– How the Brain works
Older adult forgetfulness. Adding new brain cells disrupts existing memory cells’ circuits by competing with them. P49 see diagram – How the Brain works
Venezuela. Inflation over 3 million percent! 3 Million citizens already fled. New Dictator/President. –NBC Nightly 1.23.19
Tens of thousands of people die every year from suicide.__NBC Nightly 5/11/19
The Human Hindbrain– The genes that control its development evolved around 560 million years ago.– How the brain works p28.
