Please enjoy this collection of semi-useful, sometimes interesting, even humorous factoids about a variety of different topics from the world we live in. This is intended to inform, entertain and showcase some of my presentation design abilities.

1. Firing On
All Synapses

2. 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.

3. A
gold
fish
has
a
memory
span
of
about
3
seconds.

4. A
gold
fish
cracker
runs
slightly
higher
at
5
seconds.


5. A
pregnant
goldfish
is
called
a
twit.

7. Heavy
Water!
The
weight
of
China’s
3-­‐Gorges
Reservoir,
will
/lt
the
earth’s
axis
by
nearly
an
inch.

8. 2
Billion
gallons
of
water
used
every
day
for
golf
course
irriga/on
in
the
U.S.

9. 3.7
Miles
Women
in
developing
countries
walk
an
average
of
3.7
miles
a
day
to
get
water.

10. Safe
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.

11. Hangover
Cure?
Coconut
water
is
known
to
cure
a
hangover
and
contains
the
same
five
electrolytes
as
human
blood.

12. 16,1 40!
The
number
of
Mexican
Drug
Cartel
inflicted
deaths
since
2006.

13. 200,000
people/yr.
visit
the
Larraine
Motel,
site
of
Dr.
Mar/n
Luther
King
Jr.’s
assassina/on.

14. Every
day,
an
average
of
12
newborns
are
given
to
the
wrong
parents.

16. One-­‐fi`h
of
Americans
complain
about
sleeping
problems.
56
million
prescrip/ons
for
sleeping
pills
were
wriQen
in
2008.

17. Armadillos
get
an
average
of
18.5
hours
of
sleep
per
day.

19. 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.

20. Honeybees have to
make about ten
million trips to collect
enough nectar for
production of one
pound of honey.
Enjoy your slave-honey.

21. The
Praying
Man/s
is
the
only
insect
that
can
turn
its
head.

22. Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons
are needed to produce one pound of silk.

23. If you can't
make a silk
purse out of
a sows ear…

24. What
do
you
do
with
their
“wild”
cousins?

25. A
wild
pig
popula/on
can
double
in
just
four
months.
4
Million
Pigs
Over
40
states

26. 500,000
Average
number
of
Chia
Pets
sold
each
year
.

27. Music
Milestones

28. 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

29. S/ll
relevant,
s/ll
producing
hits,
s/ll
selling
out.
hat's
the
best
I
can
do.
Not
bad
for
a
bunch
of
old-­‐guys.

30. An
Ostrich's
eye
is
bigger
than
its
brain.

31. An Elephant’s eye
is much smaller
than it’s brain and
weighs an
average of 9 lbs.

32. 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.

34. An
Ostrich
Never
Laughs.
Even
when
it
sees
another
Ostrich
with
a
piece
of
grass
hanging
out
of
it’s
mouth.

35. In the category
of “it’s not
Rocket
Science...”

36. 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.

37. In May 2008, engineers announced
that the Tower had been stabilized,
and had stopped moving for the
first time in its history.

38. 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.

39. Which came first, the chicken or the egg plant?

40. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant
is grown in New Jersey.
The average person will never eat eggplant. 

41. Apps

42. Apple receives 15,000 new App
submissions per week.

43. 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.

44. 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.

45. The U.S. ranks 20th in the world in
broadband penetration.

46. Bermuda ranks #1
Yes! Bermuda

47. 3.8 cans are consumed every
second, of every day.

48. Who’s
ea/ng
all
the
SPAM?
Hawaii
is
the
number
one
SPAM
consuming
state.

49. In
every
episode
of
"Seinfeld"
there
is
a
Superman
somewhere.

50. A
quarter
has
119
grooves
on
its
edge.

51. 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

52. 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.

53. THE END
Content and slide design by Al Bonner.