Table of Contents That's Interesting Flashcards
Deck #1 Earth
1. How high are the Himalayan Mountains?
Everest is highest and still growing at 29,029 feet. Mountains are mostly Limestone which is compressed fossils of sea shells. Takes hundreds of millions of years for fossils to become limestone.
2. How Limestone and fossils got on top of the Himalaya mountains. Tectonic subduction occurs
3. Neanderthals. Lived 200,000 years. 40,000 years ago walked among humans.
4. Lineage of king Henry VIII.
5. Greenland ice sheet will melt and raise ocean level b 20 feet. Boston, Miami and Venice all underwater.
6. Why so many caves in United States? America was a sea!
Deck #2: Some interesting facts Segment 1
1. 77% of your brain is water.
2. Hyperthermia: Heat exhaustion. What happens when it is too hot to play golf?
3. Success rate of Eagle swooping attacks.
4. Average lifetime during Henry VIII
5. Average lifetime Colonial America.
6. What caused collapse of Minneapolis bridge in 2006?
7. What Earth looks like after humans disappear.
8. 80,000 year old human teeth found.
9. How to complain with good results.
10. Older people play video games.
11. Exercise and Alzheimer’s.
12. Some facts of nutrition.
13. Why crocodiles survive for so long without food.
50 meals per year.
14. Why our feet get cold.
15. What happens when social security goes broke?
16. Longest a bird can stay in the air.
17. Which countries people do not get enough sleep.
18. How long for a probe to reach Jupiter?
19. Amazing facts about Watson.
20. How many farmers have a tractor?
21. How many people die each day because of dirty drinking water?
22. What percent of our grain is used for feeding animals and making fuel?
23. How much energy we get from the Sun.
24. How McDonalds got the famous arches.
25. DNA facts
26. How many countries does Africa have?
27. How many homeless veterans.
28. Homeless number in NYC
29 Japan tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
30. State with highest syphilis rate.
31. Ghost workers.
32. Proof Primordial an used tools.
33. Does sex boost brain power?
34. Sugar is bad for body.
35. Percent of Neanderthal DNA in us.
36. Earliest C-Section.
37. Why penguins don’t live on North pole.
38. Grizzly bear or Bloodhound, which has best nose?
39. Bumblebee’s largest predator.
40. Cheapest day to fly.
41. Number of dead not wearing seat belts in crashes.
Number of cell phone caused crashes.
Deck #3: Children deaths UNICEF
- Number of children dying each day.
- Which country has largest death rate of children under five?
- Number of child deaths each year.
- Number of children deaths in first week of life.
- Breast feeding and sanitation.
Deck #4: Mini Documentaries
- Why pants were invented.
- Number of land animals. Not fish.
- Enough gold to cover the Earth by 12 feet.
- The importance of salt from preserving to salvation.
- Mountains. Couldn’t live on Earth without mountains.
Deck #5: Stages of Sleep
- Does your brain slow down?
- Phases of sleep.
- What happens in each phase?
- REM sleep
- Sleep cycles.
- Can you make up lost sleep?
- How much sleep I need.
- How important is sleep?
- What does sleep do for us?
- Length of dreams.
- Sleep disorders. Pills stop working.
- Tips for good sleep
Deck #6: Marine viruses. “Think” book.
- Man O War
- Bacteria in a pinch of soil.
- Marine viruses Astronomical facts and figures
- They kill 20% of ocean life everyday, but keep us alive.
- You are 100 trillion microscopic critters.
Deck #7: Interesting facts segment #2.
- Who was first Neanderthal or Cro Magnon?
- Sahara was grasslands with lakes and forest.
- Homo Sapiens around about 2 million years or so.
- Does DNA affect our behavior?
- When did religions start?
- Radiocarbon dating.
- How does it work?
- Making fossils.
- Knowing what cave men ate!
- Aliens coming to get ya!
- Abductions by Aliens 4 million think so.
- How tall tales begin.
- Dating fossils
- Meet your ancestor, the plant and fruits.
- Why do we have a butt? Not for sitting.
- Why is my brain so wrinkled?
- Why cave men traveled to Europe and Asia.
- How Ergot poisoning lead to witch burnings and insanity?
- How often do you replace your skin cells?
- How much food we eat.
- What happens to our skin cells after we replace them? 400 lbs. of them by age 45.
- Why we wrinkle when we get old.
- Number of SS agents to protect Trump. A million a day for this idiot.
- Hydrogen burned up each day by the Sun.
- Spartacus and 70,000 rebels.
- Deaths in America by Opioid drugs.
- Dementia has gone down 24%.
- Bob’s children dates with WWII.
- Number of Robo calls.
- Seasons of Lassie.
- Zumwalt main numbers. Battleship
- Number of cars lost in Houston floods.
- Oral HPV virus. The sex virus.
- Amazing facts. like a burger takes 600 gallons of water.
Deck #8: Interesting facts segment #3.
- $13 ring sold for $850,000.
- Plastic in ocean and sausage 38.9 miles long.
- Bonanza wore same clothes over and over. 17 ice ages in last 200 million years.
- Hijab lawsuit $85,000.
- Halloween trick or treat. How we got to here.
- 3,991 number of people on heart waiting list.
- Air Bus has 300 miles of rivets.
- Smuggling people. Cartel battles, 119,000 in last decade.
- Smartphone touching 2,617 times per day.
- Vacation scams.
- Trump got 413 million from Dad and was a millionaire by age 8.
- Facebook users.
- $80 billion playing lottery.
- Murder in Mexico.
- Inflation in Venezuela
- 300,000 year old human fossils.
Deck #9: European River Cruise 2017.
1. Amsterdam: 890,000 bicycles! Houses sold by floor.
I beams to lift furniture. Boat parking spot cost $600,000. 15,000 bikes in canals.
2. Holland, no such place. Windmill smoke signals.
3. Castle day. They are toll booths.
4. Top of Europe. Two train rides, 70 waterfalls we passed by. We toured Glacier that towered 900 meters thick. Almost three Empire state buildings!
Deck # 10: BR__The Organized Brain
- Memory unreliable because it has a crappy filing system. Kitchens did not exist in Europe’s houses until 1600.
- Multitasking created a dopamine feedback loop. Even computers cannot do it. Multitasking is brain candy.
- 50% of people today live alone. A tickler is a reminder for memory.
- No color in the physical world, just light of different wavelengths reflecting off objects. Newton said, the light waves themselves are colorless. Our brain fools us into thinking it has color. (If an alien life form looked at a red truck, they would see no color like we do.)
- Most wildlife dies before getting old. Roughly 150,000 people die each day.
- Doing a common task without thinking about it is called Flow. Your brain Neurons know how to do it without you concentrating on it.
- Set up brain ticklers in advance of the main event so you have time to plan for them.
- For most of history, 10,000 BCE to 1820, our life expectancy was capped at about 25 years.
Deck #11: BR__Wild life of our bodies
Deck #12: Short Decks of BR then Psychology BR