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• If all the groundwater in the world were pumped to the surface, it would cover the Earth to a depth of 100 feet (30 m). • If all the water in the atmosphere fell at once as rain, the Earth would be submerged to a depth of only one inch (2.5 cm). • There is 30 times more water underground than in all the world’s rivers and lakes. BODY BITS • 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and about 65% of the human body is water.
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• Blood is exactly the same salinity as the ocean. • Blood is 92% water, and bones are 31% water. Tooth enamel, the hardest substance in the human body, is only 2% water. • The human brain weighs about 3 lbs. (1.4 kg), but if all the water were squeezed out of it, it would weigh only 10 oz (283 grams). • Baby’s bodies contain a higher percent of water than grown-ups. DOWN THE DRAIN • Americans as a whole use more water per capita than any other country.
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• Every day, residents of New York City use over 1.5 billion gallons. Although New York and London are about the same size, New York uses about three times as much water.
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• California uses more water than any other state, but Alaska uses the most per capita. • Americans use an average of 200 gallons (757 liters) of water in the home daily. That includes 5 gallons for every flush; 3 gallons for brushing teeth if the water is running; 40 gallons for a bath; 10 gallons to wash dishes; 8 gallons to clean house; 30 gallons to wash clothes; 30 gallons for lawns and pools; and a mere 2 gallons for drinking and cooking. See the next page for more!
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3. HISTORY: Which was the only American colony not represented at the first Continental Congress of 1774? 4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Where is the Mount Palomar Observatory? 5. BIBLE: What Bible verse begins with the words: “The Lord is my shepherd ... ”? 6. PERSONALITIES: What is Tiger Woods’ real first name? 7. MEASUREMENTS: How many square inches are in a square foot? 8. INVENTIONS: Who is credited with inventing potato chips? 9. LANGUAGE: What kind of animal does the adjective “porcine” refer to? 10. MEDICINE: What causes chilblains? (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• If you include industrial and agricultural uses as well as home use, the average American uses 1,900 gallons (7,192 l) of water per day. • 40% of water used in the home is flushed down the toilet. The average toilet is flushed eight times a day. • It takes 13,000 gallons (49,000 l) of water to carry away 165 gallons (624 l) of body waste per person each year. • People living in cities that charge a flat rate for water have been found to use twice as much water as people in cities that meter water use. In Tucson, Arizona, water use per person dropped from 200 to 140 gallons a day when the price was raised significantly.
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• It takes 40 gallons (151 l) to produce one egg; 80 gallons (300 l) for an ear of corn; 150 gallons (567 l) for a loaf of bread; 230 gallons (870 l) for a gallon of whisky; 2,500 gallons (9,463 l) for a pound of beef; and 100,000 gallons for a new car. • More than 700 chemicals have been found in drinking water, but most municipalities typically test their water for fewer than ten. FAST FACTS • Hoover Dam holds as much water as would flow through the Colorado River in two years. • Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone gushes 33 million gallons of water each day— enough water to provide for a city of 300,000 people. • Niagara Falls has eaten its way seven miles (11 km) upstream since their formation 10,000 years ago. At this rate, they will disappear into Lake Erie in about 22,000 years. • The waterfall with the greatest flow used to be Guaira Falls in Brazil. At 1,750,000 cubic feet per second, it would fill the Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C. in 3/5 of a second. It was submerged by a dam in 1982. • 45-foot Khone Falls on the Mekong River on the border between Laos and Cambodia, is now the biggest waterfall by volume. It runs with twice the flow of the Niagara. • The Amazon River carries more water than any other river— more than the Mississippi, the Nile and the Yangtze rivers together.
1. Who holds the rookie record for most RBIs in a season, and who is No. 2? 2. Name the last Baltimore Orioles pitcher before Bud Norris in 2014 to beat the New York Yankees four times in a season. 3. In 2014, Denver’s Peyton Manning became the third quarterback to take two franchises to the Super Bowl. Who were the first two? 4. Name the last men’s basketball team before Wichita State in 2013-14 to start a season 300? 5. When was the last time before 2015 that both the San Jose Sharks and the Los Angeles Kings failed to make the NHL playoffs in the same season? 6. Which goaltender had played in the most career World Cup games for the U.S. men’s soccer team before Tim Howard set the record with eight in 2014? 7. Two horses in the 1930s suffered injuries and did not run in the Belmont Stakes after winning the first two legs of the Triple Crown. Name either one. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
ICE FACTS • Ice cubes will freeze clearer if they start out as warm water, which prevents tiny air bubbles from freezing inside. • The Antarctic ice cap contains about 66% of the world’s fresh water. At its thickest point the ice cap is over 2.6 miles (4.3 km) thick. • Each year, some 430 cubic miles of ice become icebergs, enough to fill the annual water needs of 5 billion people for a year. • If the Antarctic ice cap were melted at a uniform rate, it would fill the Mississippi River for more than 50,000 years, or all the rivers of the world for 750 years. • Arctic waters freeze at 30°f. (-1.1°C) instead of 32°f. (O°C) because of their high salt content. A person who falls into water this cold will become unconscious after only two minutes. This is one of the reasons why so many people drowned when the Titanic sank.
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• On April 6, 1938, chemist Dr. Roy Plunkett was experimenting with coolant gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners at the DuPont laboratories in New Jersey. From the freezer he removed a tank of experimental gas he’d been working with, called tetrafluoroethylene. He expected to find a container of very cold gas, but when he turned the valve to let some gas out, nothing happened. • He weighed the tank, which showed it should be full of gas. He checked the valve, but it worked fine. Perplexed, he cut the tank in half to find out what happened to the gas. He was surprised to see the gas had congealed into a solid, waxy substance. • Plunkett ran some tests. The new material was impervious to chemicals and heat; it did not absorb things and nothing absorbed it; it was colorless and odorless; and it had an extremely high melting point. • Plunkett had accidentally discovered what is popularly known as the slipperiest substance on Earth, equivalent to two wet ice cubes rubbing against each other in a warm room. The molecules of the substance are some of the largest molecules known. • Three years after Plunkett’s accidental discovery, the process of manufacturing the substance was patented. Four years after that, it began to be sold on the market, mostly for military applications at first. • Fifty years later Plunkett was inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame. Today the product has hundreds of uses. It’s used on windshield wiper blades, it’s in fingernail polish, it forms a scratch-resistant coating on eyeglasses, it covers cookware, it protects fabrics, and it covers lightbulbs to make them shatterproof. The list is nearly endless. What is it commonly known as? (Answer on page 7.)
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by Samantha Weaver • It was noted 20th-century British dystopian author George Orwell who made the following sage observation: “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” • If you’re like the average 75-year-old American man, you’ve spent a total of 37.5 days in the act of shaving. • According to the World Health Organization, the United States ranks 48th in the world in alcohol consumption per capita, with the average adult drinking the equivalent nearly 2.5 gallons of pure, undiluted alcohol per year. You might be surprised to learn that Russia didn’t top the list; Moldova and Lithuania beat out the Russians, and Belarus scored the world’s biggest drinkers, with the average adult consuming a whopping 4.6 gallons annually. • Actors Kevin Spacey and Val Kilmer were classmates in high school. • In a 2014 survey conducted by Nutrisystem, 32 percent of respondents said that they hadn’t worn a bathing suit in public in the past five years, 20 percent said it had been 10 or more years, and 5 percent said they had never worn a swimsuit in public. • In ancient Egypt, there was a ban on the export of cats, which, by the law of supply and demand, increased the value of the pets in the rest of the known world. This situation was an irresistible invitation to smugglers, of course; once Phoenician sailors managed to surreptitiously bring some felines to buyers around the Mediterranean, breeders took over and ruined the business. • The vast nation of Canada got its name from the Iroquois word “Kanata,” which means “village.” *** Thought for the Day: “A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.” -- Franz Kafka (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• Bill was one of the researchers working in the DuPont lab when Teflon was invented. He continued to experiment with it, inventing many uses. However, the DuPont Teflon team was disbanded in 1957. Bill begged his bosses to let him continue to work with Teflon, but was turned down. • He took Teflon home with him, experimented with it in his basement after work, and established his own company. His son Bob joined him, and in 1969 they discovered that Teflon would stretch if it was heated and then pulled slowly. They wanted to stretch it into a fabric, but time after time – while heating it and pulling it slowly – they failed. • Finally in frustration, Bob heated it and then yanked it. That was the secret. Teflon, when heated and stretched quickly, expands to 1000% of its original size and forms fabric.
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• On Aug. 18, 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony in present-day North Carolina, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement deserted. No trace of the 100 colonists has ever been found. • On Aug. 23, 1784, four counties in North Carolina declare their independence as the state of Franklin. In defiance of Congress, Franklin survived as an independent nation for four years with its own constitution, Indian treaties and legislated system of barter. • On Aug. 22, 1950, the United States Lawn Tennis Association accepts Althea Gibson into its annual championship at Forest Hills, New York, making her the first black player to compete in a U.S. national tennis competition. • On Aug. 19, 1960, in the Soviet Union, downed U.S. reconnaissance aircraft pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for espionage. Eighteen months later, the Soviets agreed to exchange him for a KGB spy. • On Aug. 17, 1978, the Double Eagle II completes the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight when it lands near Paris, six days after lifting off from Presque Isle, Maine. The heliumfilled balloon covered 3,233 miles. • On Aug. 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their parents to death in family’s California home. Although the brothers were not immediately suspected, Erik confessed his involvement to his psychotherapist, who taped the sessions to impress his mistress, who ended up going to the police. Lyle, 22, and Erik, 19, were arrested. • On Aug. 21, 1991, just three days after it began, a coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses. The Soviet Union would soon cease to exist as a nation and as a Cold War threat to the United States. Gorbachev resigned as leader of the Soviet Union in December 1991. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
• Normally raincoats are made out of two layers: the outer layer is polyester or nylon, and the inner layer is polyurethane. Bill and Bob found that when sheets of this new Teflon fabric were inserted between the two layers, the raincoat was porous enough to breathe, but tight enough to be waterproof. • The fabric contains over 9 billion microscopic pores per square inch. Whereas the pores are about 20,000 times smaller than a drop of water, they are also 700 times bigger than a molecule of moisture vapor. Therefore, water droplets cannot get through the fabric, but gases and water vapor can easily escape. It was superior to any outerwear on the market. • Bill and Bob were granted a patent in 1976, the product line hit the market in 1989, and Bob was inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2006. The name of the fabric is based on Bill and Bob’s last name. What’s it called? (Answer on page 7)
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• When dogs wag their tails, it squeezes their anal scent glands and fans their signature smell all around. • Puppies don’t learn to wag their tails until they’re between 30 and 49 days old. • Free-roaming dogs spend up to three hours every day re-marking their scent posts. • All dog breeds are genetically compatible: Great Danes can mate with Chihuahuas; and any dog can breed with wolves or coyotes.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of August 17, 2015. PICKS OF THE WEEK Strangerland (R) -- In a dusty town in the Australian desert, a mother is pushed into a nightmare when her two teenage children disappear in the middle of the night. Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes play Catherine and Matthew Parker, a couple already dealing with a divide in their marriage and alarmingly provocative behavior from their 15-year-old daughter. After the disappearance, a local policeman (Hugo Weaving) leads the search as an epic dust storm swallows the town. The cinematography and setting shine, which carries the sense of isolation and smallness you’re supposed to feel. Kidman does a great job maneuvering the heavy emotions set on her character. Unfortunately, the movie struggles with pacing while the script keeps hitting the same notes of dread and anxiety.
• Dogs roll in dead things to disguise their smell. A deer will sniff the wind and think, “I smell a dead skunk” instead of thinking, “I smell a canine on the prowl.” Continued on the next page! Little Boy (PG) -- Rent this movie, and you’ll see something so syrupy, sentimental and goshdarn cute that even Norman Rockwell would groan. The movie follows the precious Pepper, a bullied 8-year-old boy whose father has been taken off to the Pacific by World War II. The boy looks to his church for help and gets lessons about the power of faith (which he confuses with a magic act). As a favor to the priest, a persecuted Japanese-American man mentors Pepper, who recently vandalized his house. Watching this is like trying to eat a too-sweet apple pie frosted with bits of Hallmark cards and salty tears. There isn’t a single moment that isn’t oversold with narration or musical cues. There are even a few cringe-worthy parts where the movie’s tone totally misses the mark and tries to be cute about something very dark.
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• Wolves bark a little and howl a lot. Dogs bark a lot and howl a little. Wolves and dogs both howl for the same reason: to get the entire pack together in communication and galvanize them for action. A howl means, “Where are you? Come join me! Let’s go do something!” Sometimes when people start singing, their dog mistakenly thinks they are howling in order to draw the pack together, and will then start howling along.
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• When wolves are teaching their pups to eat solid food, they will leave animal parts lying around the den: horns, bones, hooves. The pups chew and gnaw on these objects as their teeth are coming in. When humans leave their slippers or newspapers laying around, the pup assumes it’s for the same purpose, and will chew the object to bits—and then be completely bewildered when it’s punished for doing what comes naturally.
• It’s been estimated that it costs about $6,000 1. Jack London to raise a medium-size dog to the age of 11. 2. Indonesia 3. Georgia • There are about 400 pet cemeteries in the 4. California U.S. 5. Psalm 23 • In 1894, New York State enacted the first 6. Eldrick dog-licensing law in the nation. 7. 144 • In 80% of dog bites, victims are bitten by a 8. George Crum family dog or the dog of a neighbor. Some 60% 9. Pigs 10. Inflammation from exposure to cold, then happen between July and September. Boys under 15 are the most frequent victims. sudden warming • About 20 mail carriers are bitten by dogs during an average day in America. Sports Quiz Answers • The American Kennel Club recognizes 1. No. 1 is Boston’s Ted Williams, with 145 130 breeds and registers more than 1.2 million RBIs in 1939. No. 2 is Walt Dropo, also with purebred puppies per year. Boston, with 144 in 1950. • When dogs and humans sleep together, their 2. Mike Flanagan, in 1978. sleep and dreaming cycles tend to coincide. 3. Craig Morton (Dallas and Denver) and Kurt Warner (St. Louis and Arizona). 4. UNLV, in the 1990-91 season. 5. It was 2003. 6. Tony Meola, with seven. 7. Burgoo King in 1932 and Bold Venture in 1936. Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. Culture Club, in 1982. 2. “Flashdance,” 1983. The soundtrack album netted a fistful of Grammys. 3. Not in New York City. There are two: one in Buffalo, New York, where Arlester “Dyke” Christian lived, and one in Phoenix, Arizona, where the group played local clubs. 4. “G.I. Blues,” in 1960. Presley played a soldier serving in Germany, hence the German lyrics. 5. “Cherry Bomb,” by John Mellencamp (aka John Cougar Mellencamp) in 1987. The song title is a fictional name for a teen club in a nostalgic look back at Mellencamp’s early years in Indiana. The real club was called The Last Exit Teen Club.
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