REM That's Interesting Facts Flashcards
Where do most animals live?
50% of all animals live in the jungle.
IBM’s Watson. How fast can it read?
Watson can read one million books per second. REF: 60 Minutes
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?
Their total take was 7.1 Million dollars!
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?
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.
So how fast is the Earth traveling through our solar system?
The Earth travels 1.6 million miles a day, which is 66,627 mph.
How far does our Sun travel in one year?
How far does the Earth travel in one year?
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.
Can you walk in deep water on the ocean floor with no equipment?
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.
Why do Reindeer have antlers?
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.
Other than humans, what other animal has domesticated pets?
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.
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.
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
6,000 pedestrian deaths in 2017 in America many using smartphone. Ref: NBC Nightly news 2/28/18
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
“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.
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!
