FASCINATING FACTS
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fascinating facts, strange fakts, silly fakts, odd fakts
misc stuff, trivia, tibits, stats, yuzeless statistiks
1. 3 munkees: see no evil, heer no evil, speek no evil, 4=du no evil
. 3rd degree =slang for long, hard, tuff test or kops quesshun suspekt
or giv sumwon a hard time
started with masons...em had 3 ranks. Tu go up tu next rank
yu gotta pass test. For rank 3, gotta pass a hard test.
2. 4-flusher In poker...flush=5 kards av the same suit (5 harts, 5 spades, ets)
1 tipe av poker...plaer hold 1 kard in his hand & other 4 sho on the tabel.
if the 4 that sho R av 1 suit, him mite hav a flush...1 chans in 4.
But him mae bluff wen dont hav a flush...thus "4-flusher"=sumwon
hu pretend tu be wot him is not, such as pretent tu be portant.
3. 5 & 10: first Woolwerths: evreethang was 5 sents
4. 7 The old werld (1000-3000 yeers BC) had 7 faemus man-made wunders.
Oenlee 1 stil stand tudae:
piramid av Giza in Egypt (King Kufu) bilt bout 2500bc
also kalled Cheops
Others that dont be no more:
2. hanging gardens av babylon
3. Greek gold statue av Zues
4. Artemis Tempel (Turkey)
5. Mausoleum av king Maussollus (Pershia)
6. Rodes Kolossus...Greek Ieland av Rodes
7. Alexander litehous (Faros Ieland)
7 sees: old Greeks: Adriatik see, Azov see, Blak see (lake)
Indian Oeshun, Kaspian See., Pershun Gulf, Red see
Modern werld maps hav bout 70 sees
7up name from 7 owns bottel, up="bottoms up"
original had lithium carbonate=strong tranquilizer.
Kame out fyu daes B4 the Okt 1929 stok market krash.
original name="Lithiated lemon"
5. 10$ the vies president shot & killed the gie on the 10$ bill (in a duel)
Aaron Bur shot Alexander Hamilton, 11 July, 1804
6. 10 gal hat hold 0.75 gallon
7. 13 superstishus thank 13 is unluky. wi? Sum ideas:
Judas was 13th at the tabel at last supper
Nors mithology had 12 gods at a tabel, then Loki
(god av mischef) krashed the party & 1 god died.
Tarot kards: 13=deth.
***** fridae the 13th: dae 1 av month gotta be Sundae.
8. abacus du simpel math (+,-, /, *) bi muve beeds on wires.
invented in China bout 500bc.
kommon in Aesya til bout 1990 wen modern lektronik kalkulater replaes it.
9. a-bomb developed in WW2 maenly kauz Jermany mite duit 2.
Based on Einsteins theree that yu kan tern matter intu enerjee.
Most atomik werk in 1930's was in Jermany & most was bi jues.
Hitler kikked out the jues & many kame tu US.
1933 Leo Sziard (Hungary) propose idea that nuetron kood start a
nuclear reakshun that make nuetrons. If yu dont luze the nuetrons
yu kan hav a chaen reakshun. Maby get big xplode...a bomb.
Xperiments with Uranium get out 2.2 nuetrons for 1 yu send in.
Jan 1939: West heer av xpeerment in Berlin: bombard Uranium with
nuetrons. Xpeerment bi Otto Han split the atom & gave off enerjee.
(atomik fisshun).
2 Aug 1939: Einstein rite Roosevelt bout possabel a-bomb.
Roosevelt see the letter in Okt.
Roosevelt apoint Lyman Brigs (Naeshunal Buro av Standards) tu
hed a kommittee tu look intu nukleer stuf. Brigs prevent
NE-1 from du NE-thang for many months.
Feb 1941: Glen Seeborg make Plutonium: first man-made element.
Des 1941: Vannevar Bush=hed av Offis av Sientifik Reserch: him
get the atomik werk.
Jan 1942: Arthur Compton at Chicago Univ, Metallurgikal Lab werk
tu make a "atomik pile"...we kall it a reakter tudae.
Robert Oppenheimer (Fizistist at Kalif Univ) take charj av
the theeree werk.
Jun 1942: Sientists get tugether study & konklude a bomb is possabel.
Kum up with "kritikal mass"=how much Uranium yu need tu make
it go boom. Sientists realize yu need 2 (or more) peeses &
then gotta join the peeses very fast tu make it blo up.
Teller also lobby for a "super bomb" that yuze fushun...H-bomb.
Sep 1942: Bush sae guvt need tu org & ko-ordinate better.
Suggest the bomb projekt belong tu the military.
1942: Manhattan Projekt ("Manhattan Engineer Distrikt" in guvt speek)
Guvt got seereeus & deside it gotta make a bomb kauz it
look like Hitler werk onit. Put under Army Kore av Engineers
Jenral Leslee R Groves=boss. Groves had just made the Pentagon.
Groves did NOT want the job, him wanted oversees kommand.
Hedquarters was on Brodwae, Nu York Sitee (on Manhatten Ieland).
Sum thank this is how it got the name.
Groves bild big nu werk plaeses tu bild a bomb:
Los Alamos, Nu Mexiko=town for Sientists in middel av noweer.
Oek Ridj, Tenn: plant tu make uranium.
Richland, Wash (Hanford site): werk on plutonium
2 Des 1942: Enriko Fermi in Shekago "lite" the first "atomik pile".
=kontrolled self-sustaened chaen reakshun...forrunner av
nuklear reakters.
Uranium a-bomb: "littel Boy" yuze U235=rare isotope av uranium.
Bout 0.7% av uranium is U235. Em had tu figger out how tu
separate the isotopes & get nuff tu make a bomb.
also kalled "uranium enrichment". Did this at Oek Ridj.
Maen method was gas difushun: make the gas Uranium hexafluoride
& send it thru tiny holes: trilyuns av holes. Molekules
that hav u235 R slitely smaller & go thru faster. Had tu
foers gas thru walls av holes, 1000's av times.
Then yuze fansee elektromagnets & hav magnetik feelds
konsentrate the U235. Theer was a shortage av kopper, so
took 70 milyun pounds av silver from the Treasury tu make
koils. (later reterned the silver).
The bomb was "bomb tipe"...explosives blo a "plug" intu
a hole in bigger pees av uranium. The bomb dropped on
Nagasaki on 6 Aug 1945 yuzed all the U235 em kood make.
Plutonium a-bomb: Less was noed bout plutonium, so theeree behind
it was less noed. So em first made a test bomb.
Em bild reakters tu send nuetrons from U235 intu U238 which
kauz nuklear reakshuns that end up with Plutonium 239.
Bild big plants at Hanford site, Wash tu make plutonium.
5 Apr 1944: first mikro-gram sampel av plutonium available so
sientists kan test theer ideas. Found it had a lotta Pl240
with it. Sientists gotta redu all theer equashuns.
Had tu yuze kompleetly different "gun" tu start the bomb.
16 July 1945: Trinity Site in Nu Mexiko (neer Alamogordo)=first test
av a a-bomb. It werked. This was the "big boy".
06 Aug 1945: drop uranium "littel boy" a-bomb on Hiroshima.
Enerjee=bout 12,000 tons av TNT.
kill bout 140,000. Bout half die that dae.
09 Aug 1945: drop plutonium "big boy" on Nagasaki.
kill bout 80,000
15 Aug 1945: Japs sae em giv up...VJ dae
fascinating facts
10. adjustabel rate morgate (ARM)
bekame kommon during the housing bubbel 2000 thru 2006
2005: 33% av morgages R ARM's
March 2008: 13.4 milyun ARM=26.3% av 51 mil morgages in USA
11. ads (kommeshals) US kids see averaej av 360,000 TV ads bi time get outta hi skuel
*** trivia: US tipical persun "is exposed tu 3000 'marketing messages/dae'"
United States: 4.3 trilyun ads/yeer
tipikal adult will spend 1 yeer in front av the TV bi the time yu die
Prokter & Gambel spend 4.61 Bilyun $ in 2006 for ads
*** ad makers invented the folloing:
finalize, glamorize, kustomize, motorize, personalize, sanitize,tenderize, vitalize
United States spend on advertize...nuzpapers+mags+TV
yeer advertize
bilyun $
1951 6.426
1955 9.194
1960 11.932
1965 15.255
1970 19.600
12. adult US guvt define adult=evreewon with aej >= 14 or 16 or 18 or 21
[wot? yu spekted guvt tu be konsistant?]
1970 number, aej >=14
------------------------men ---------------------------
all singel wed wido divorsed
71,485,878 20,426,937 47,001,412 2,130,932 1,926,597
---------------- wemen ---------------------------
all singel wed wido divorsed
77,910,094 17,624,105 47,666,431 9,615,280 3,004,278
notised theer R more wedded wemen than men? (lotta mormons)
13. Aeg ("eggs" in krat speek)
modern chiken bred tu lae aegs, lae 260 aegs/yeer for 3 yeers
(so sae US farm dept="USDA" in krat speek)
USA chickens laed 89.960 bilyun aegs in 2005
if laed end-tu-end, wood serkel globe 100 times.
werld...eet 230 aegs/(persun-yeer)
large aeg=24 owns, xtra big=27 owns
Chicken make bout 34 pounds av aegs/yeer
& make 30 pounds av "litter"...bout 0.9 kubik foot
Chicken feed kost farmer 0.225$/duzen aegs...4.88$/(hen-yeer)
(feed is 70% av farmer's kost)
store pae holesaler averaej av 0.775 $/duzen for aegs (2000)
farmer got 54 sents/duzen
Chicken farmer make profit=5.68$/(hen-yeer) (Virjinya Tek)
aeg "distributer" or "holesaler" sell 100,000 duzen aegs/dae
**** wite aeg or brown aeg? same. Koler av shell dont matter.
***** aeg: nutrishun...aegs R very good for proteen, vitamin, & minerals
1 aeg hav:
kalorees 75
proteen 6.25 gram
karbohydrates 0.6 gram
fatty asid 4.33 gram
saturated fat 1.55 gram
unsat fat 0.68 gram
cholesterol 0.21 gram
***** aeg lae an aeg=slang for...fael. based on idea aeg look like zero.
1863 report yuzed it bout man on sport teem hu did not skore.
tudae it meen yer idea, suggest, or effort fael.
***** aeg... pries (kost) av 1 duzen aegs (retail)
(buro av laber statistics...//www.bls.gov#content)
aegs
yeer $/duzen
1890 0.208
1895 0.206
1900 0.207
1905 0.272
1910 0.337
1915 0.358
1920 0.681
1925 0.554
1930 0.445
1935 0.376
1940 0.331
1945 0.581
1950 0.604
1955 0.606
1960 0.573
1965 0.527
1970 0.614
1988 0.91
1996 1.07
*** aeg pries (Amerikan Farm Buro Federation Marketbasket)
2004 1.40
2007 1.56 (free-raenj aegs=2.89$)
14. Aej Yunivers is 13.7 bilyun yeers old
median aej av US folks ("age" in krat speek)
yeer how old
1800 16.0
1810 16.0
1820 16.7
1830 17.2
1840 17.8
1850 18.9
1860 19.4
1870 20.2
1880 20.9
1890 22.0
**
1900 22.9
1910 24.1
1920 25.3
1930 26.5
1940 29.0
1950 30.2
1960 29.6
1970 28.1
1990 32.9
**
2000 35.3
2008 36.8
******** averaej aej wen first wed (marry)
yeer man woman
1890 26.1 22.0
1900 25.9 21.9
1910 25.1 21.6
1920 24.6 21.2
1930 24.3 21.3
1940 24.3 21.5
1950 22.8 20.3
1960 22.8 20.3
1970 23.2 20.8
******** averaej aej wen yu die...life spekt (expectancy in krat speek)
life span
birth yeer all men wemen
1900 47.3 46.3 48.3
1910 50.0 48.4 51.8
1920 54.1 53.6 54.6
1930 59.7 58.1 61.6
1940 62.9 60.8 65.2
1950 68.2 65.6 71.1
1960 69.7 66.6 73.1
1970 70.9 67.1 74.8
1980 73.7 70.0 77.4
1990 75.4 71.8 78.8
2000 77.0 74.3 79.7
2005 77.8 74.9 80.7
15. Aerlines (air transport kumpanees)
aerlines www.transtats.bts.gov/releaseinfo.asp.....
number passengers, milyun
1. Amerikan 98.1
2. Southwest 96.3
3. Delta 73.5
4. United 69.3
5. Northwest 54.8
6. Continental 46.7
7. US Aer 36.5
8. Amerika West 21.2
9. AirTran 20.0
10. SkiWest 19.5
number aerline werkers
2000 672,294
2005 529,590
number flites (2007)
Amerikan Aer 750,000
***** rate & problems
bags: 6.5 bags lost per 1000 passengers in 2006 (4 milyun bags lost)
2007, first half: 1+milyun bags "lost, hert, delaed or pilfered" in USA
on time...plane gotta be >15 minuts late tu be kalled late
plane get theer on time
jan 06=78.8%
jan 07=73.1%
**
******* Aerlines stats, Domestik aerlines
pas-mile=number passenger-miles aerlines fli in 1 yeer
also kalled Revenue-miles
yeer number number Rout passengers plane-mile take in
aerlines aerkraft miles milyun milyun $/pas-mile
1926 13 x x x 4.318 0.12
1927 18 x x x 5,856 0.106
1928 34 268 x x 10,528 0.11
1929 38 442 x x 22,729 0.12
1930 43 497 30,293 x 32,645 0.083
1935 26 363 29,190 x 55,918 0.057
yeer number number Rout passengers pas-mile
aerlines aerkraft miles milyun bilyun
1940 19 369 42,757 2.523 1.052 0.0507
1945 19 421 45,516 6.576 3.360 0.0495
1950 52 960 77,440 17.345 8.007 0.0554
1955 42 1,212 78,992 38.025 19.852 0.0536
1960 42 1,594 77,440 56.352 30.567 0.0609
1965 40 1,896 114,110 92.073 51.887 0.0606
1970 33 2,437 171,615 153.408 104.156 0.0587
**
******* Aerlines stats, Internashunal
yeer number number Rout passengers pas-mile take in
aerlines aerkraft miles milyun bilyun $/pas-mile
1935 2 101 31,261 0.111 0.046 ------
1940 3 68 52,322 0.163 0.100 0.0883
1945 5 97 38,885 0.470 0.450 0.0868
1950 6 160 106,401 1.675 2.325 0.0728
1951 6 140 108,763 2.042 2.614 0.0710
1952 7 149 110,465 2.365 3.065 0.0701
1953 8 161 111,826 2.699 3.451 0.0684
1954 9 161 112,488 2.875 3.810 0.0676
1955 9 147 117,282 3.416 4.499 0.0666
1960 13 174 148,303 5.904 8.306 0.0635
1965 10 yyy 152,293 10.847 16.789 0.0529
1970 3 yyy 205,666 16.260 27.563 0.0500
yyy...inkluded with domestik
16. Aerplaen ("airplane" or airkraft in krat speek)
**** aerplane trivia: theer R 5000 kommershal pasenger aerplanes up in the aer
abuv USA at bizee times av the dae
747 hold 57,285 gallons av fuel
wingspan > rite brothers fli 1 (but 952 ft fli later that dae)
747-400:wing span=211 ft, length=231 ft
kruiz speed=507 nots=584 MPH
max takeoff wate=910,000 pounds
passengers=420 at std seet konfig
raenj=7260 see miles=8,360 land miles
**** aerplane
767 hav 3.1 milyun parts
777=2 engins bi RR, eech=90,000HP
seet 330
** big engin on modern kommershal jet
92,000 pounds thrust
suk in 1 ton aer/sekond at 350 MPH. exit speed=1050 MPH
**** aerplane
number aerplaes in USA
yeer privat kommershal
1960 76,549 2,135
1970 131,743 2,679
1980 211,045 3,808
1990 198,000 6,083
2000 217,533 8,055
2004 219,426 8,186
**** aerplane: differ soers: Sivil "aviation" (xklude military)
number number number
yeer aerplane pilots aerports
1927 2,740 1,572 1,036
1930 9,818 15,280 1,782
1935 9,072 14,805 2,368
1940 17,928 69,829 2,331
1945 37,789 296,895 4,026
1950 92,809 xxxxx 6,403
1955 85,320 643,201 6,839
1960 111,580 783,232 6,881
1965 142,078 479,770 9,566
1970 154,450 732 729 11,261
**** aerplane: bild rate in United States
yeer sivil military total
1913 29 14 43
1914 34 15 49
1915 152 26 178
1916 269 142 411
1917 135 2,013 2,148
1918 29 13,991 14,020
1919 98 682 780
1920 72 256 328
1925 342 447 789
1930 2,690 747 3,437
1935 1,251 459 1,710
1937 2,824 949 3,773
1939 3,661 2,195 5,856
**** aerplane
1940 6,785 6,020 12,813
1941 6,844 19,445 26,289
1942 0 47,675 47,675
1943 0 85,443 85,443
1944 0 95,272 95,272
1945 2,047 46,865 48,912
1946 35,001 1,417 36,418
1947 15,617 2,122 17,739
1948 7,302 2,536 9,838
1949 3,545 2,592 6,137
**** aerplane
1950 3,520 2,773 6,293
1955 4,820 8,032 12,852
1960 8,181 1,143 10,324
1965 12,646 ---------------
1970 8,190
**
17. Aerport Bizeeest airports...number passengers/yeer (2006)
1. Atlanta Hartsfeeld 83,606,583
2. Shekago O'hare 75,533,822
3. London Heethroe 67,530,223
4. Tokyo 62,291,405
5. LA internashunal 60,688,609
6. Dallas 59,412,217
7. Paris, DeGaul 51,260,363
8. Frankfurt, Jermany 51,098,271
9. Amsterdam 42,541,180
10. Denver 42,393,766
11. Las Vegas, McKarren 41,441,531
12. Fenis, Arazona 39,504,898
13. Madrid 38,704,731
14. Bangkok 37,960,169
15. JFK (Nu York Sitee) 37,518,143
18. Aer travel
see also...fli
2007: at tipikal time in USA, theer R 5,300 aerplanes up in the aer
that require aer traffik kontrol tu keep trak av em
2006: USA aerline traffik (www.dot.gov/affairs/bits1207.htm)
total domestik
passengers 744.4 milyun 658.2
pass-miles 797.4 bilyun 574.5
flites 10.549 mil 9.6988 (plane take off)
avaelabel seet-miles=1.006 trilyun
loed fakter =79.2% (77.2 in 05)
averaej trip length =1071 miles
19. aeshya ("asia" in krat speek)
30% av erth land, hav 60% av humans
fascinating facts
20. afford leest affordabel tu bi hous...Isla Vista Kalifornya
meen hous pries/meen inkum av folks theer=24.91 (baddest in US)
21. ajent Okt 2007: real estate ajents in Kalifornya=2% av adults (1 in 50)
22. Akseedent ("accident" in krat speek)
US: 4% av deths kauzed bi akseedents
******* akseedent trivia:
ded from kar akseedents > all US killed in all wars ("fatalities" in krat speek)
("fatalities" in krat speek)
2 times as many men as wemen killed in akseedents
men 6 times more likely tu get hit bi litening
kar krashes kill 500 times as many as aerline krashes
("transportation incidents" in krat speek)
more killed at raelroed krossings than in plane krash
donkees kill more than plane krashes
hous plants poison more kids than houshold kemikals
teddy bears kill more than Grizzlee bears
raen from thunderstorms kill 140/yeer in US (more than litening)
******* akseedent plane krash
2,147 krashes av kommershal aerlines 1950 thru 2004
maen kauz av aerline krash:pilot errer=52%
most killed in 1 plaen krash...583...2 747's smash-up wile taxiing
Canary Ieland aerport, 1977
******* kar skseedent
see also...kar akseedents
1902: first kar akseedent...only 2 kars in Ohio & em krunch tugether.
2004: kar akseedents kill 46,200 in USA...114/dae
(198,100,000 lisened drivers in USA in 2004)
if in kar krash, hav 10% chans tu be hert
most danjerus aej=20-24
leest danjerus aej=70+
driver wen hav akseedent...mael=11.6 milyun, female=8.4 mil
driver wen sumwon die ...mael=46,200; female=16,800
******* USA akseedent deths/yeer (2004) (National Safety Kounsil)
total 111,000
**
kar krash 46,200
fall 20,200
poisun 13,300
suffokate 4,900
fire & smoke 3,900
drown 3,800
guns 700 ("firearms" in krat speek)
***** killed in akseedent
choke on objekt 3,004
choke on food 875
fall down staers 1,588
fall outta bed 594
bike 762
drown in pool 515
drown in bath 332
fall off ladder 365
slip on ies/sno 103
tornado 70
litening 80
bee/wasp 66
dog 32
ski dive 22
folks stampeed 22
aerplane krash 22
plaeground 3
snakes 2
*** home akseedents
** trivia: Home akseedents kill 70/dae in USA
most home akseedents R in the kitchen (kook room)
most kommon thang tu choke on: toothpik
66% av choke deths R < 4 yeers old
most kids that get poisoned...eet bad plant.
1 milyun/yeer get bited bi anamal. 75% R wild anamal.
30,000 R treeted for raebees (folks, not anamals)
snake bite...half hu never gotu dokter liv [how du em no if yu dont tell?]
**
a hous in USA katch fire evree 45 sekond
kar akseedent evree 18 sekond
sumwon hert in akseed evree 3 sekond
1 akseedent deth evree 5 minuts
*** stranjest akseedent...13 Sep 1847, dinomite go off & drive 3 ft steel spike thru
faes & hed av Fineas P Gage. Went thru braen. Him bak at werk in 2 months.
*** akkording tu Greenpees, hav ben 120 sub skseedents
US guvt sae Rushuns lost 5 subs & US lost 2 subs
23. Akseedent, Kar
trivia: kar akseedents is biggest kauz av deth for aeg=6-27
63% killed did NOT bukkel up
Alkohol was "kontributing fakter" in 50% av kar krashes
Speed was fakter in 31%
United States (motor-vehicle accidents in krat)
deth rate: per-folk=# ded per milyun folks in USA ("fatalities" in krat speek)
-------- deth rate ----------
yeer akseedents num ded per-folk % av kars per bilyun kar-miles
1925 21,900 1.91 0.0120 179
1930 32,900 2.67 0.0124 174
1935 36,369 2.86 0.0137 150
1937 7,000,000 39,643 3.08 0.0132 147
1940 6,100,000 34,501 2.61 0.0106 114
1945 5,500,000 28,076 2.12 0.0091 112
1950 8,300,000 34,763 2.30 0.0071 76
1955 9,900,000 38,426 2.34 0.0061 63
1960 10,400,000 38,137 2.12 0.0051 53
1965 13,200,000 49,163 2.54 0.0054 55
1970 16,000,000 54,137 2.68 0.0049 49
1980 17,900,000 53,200 2.25 0.0348 33
1990 11,500,000 45,800 1.68 0.0242 21
**
2000 13,400,000 43,000 1.49 0.0193 15
2003 11,800,000 44,800 1.47 0.0185 14.8
2004 42,636 1.42 14.6
24. Akters
see also...staej name
in muvee "Don Juan", Jon Barrymore kissed 191 times
Graes Kelly was first on a post stamp...Aril 1956, Monaco
Mary Pikford was Kanadian
first muvee kowboy=Bronko Billy Anderson koodnt ride.
required 3 men tu lift him onto a hoers.
25. Alkohol 61% av US adults drank sumtime in last yeer
koffee dont help sober up a drunk
50% av US kar akseedents...alkohol kontributed
20,687 ded in 2006 due tu drink (exklude akseedents).
2005...16,885 kar akseedent deths kauzed bi drink=40% av kar deths.
26. Almond Many web sites klaem almonds R in the peech famlee: rong.
aent no peech famlee. Peeches, almonds, appels, ets R in
the ROSE famlee.
Almond kum from the seed av aprikots...bred for the seed,
not the pulp.
27. Aluminum kans...first soft drinks in al kans in 1957
33 emptee beer kans=1 pound aluminum
skrap Al=0.60$/pound (Aug 2008)
28. Amazon river: flo is > water in all rivers in the US.
Amerika
29 Amerika, Jenral
area=3,794,085 sq mile=3th
number folks (population in krat speek)
Sep 2006: 300,000,000 (inklude estimated 11 milyun wetbaks)
Aug 2007: 302,627,270
=3th=4% av werld populashun
33,000,000 forin-born...12% av folks
kids av feriners=11% av folks
53% av feriners kum from Mexiko (dont kount wetbaks)
***** amerika...big & littel
***** amerika sity, most folks=Nu York Sitee: 8,084,316
biggest area:Sitka, Alaska 4,812 square mile
eest most=Eestport, Maen 66deg 55min West
west most=Atka, Alaska 174deg 12min West
north most=Barro, Alaska 71deg 17min N
south most=Hilo, Hawaii 19deg 44min N
hiest spot=Mount McKinlee, Alaska=20,320 ft
loest spot=Deth Vallee, Kalif = -282 ft
**
bilding, big =Boeing plant=472 milyun kubik feet (98 aker footprint)
=Pentagon, Wash Dc...3,705,793 sq ft offis area
bilding, tall =Seers Tower, Shekago, Ill 1,450 ft tall
bridj, long =Verranzano-Narro (Nu York Sitee) 4,260 ft span
hi =Royal Gorge, Kolo 1,053 ft abuv water
gorge, big =Grand Kanyon av Kolorado, 277 mile long, 1 mile deep
lake, biggest =Superior (part in Kanada) 31,700 sq mile, 1,363 ft deep
lake, deepest =Krater Lake, Oregon 1,932 ft deep
raen, most =Waialeali, Hawaii averaej= 460 inch/yeer
river, big =Mississippi 3,710 mile long
tall =TV tower, Blanchard,ND 2,063 ft hi
hiest waterfall=Yosemite =2,425 ft (3 falls in seerees)
upper fall=1,430 ft
well, deep =Gas well, Washita Kountee, Okla 31,441 ft deep
**
bird(avian in krat speek)=bald eegel, flower=rose
anthem=Star Spangeled Banner (non offishal=Amerika the byuteeful)
***** Amerikan dreem
% hu thank em hav acheeved the amerikan dreem:
inkun <15,000$/yr 5%
inkum >50,000 6%
***** amerika ekonomy
GNP=gros nashunal produkt
GDP=gros domestik produkt
US GDP=14.3 trilyun $/yeer (2008), 44,333$/persun
US GDP=23% av erth GDP (2007, from Werld Bank study)
GNP parts
"personal consumption expenditures"=9.3467 trilyun $/yeer
(guvt-eez for how much munee yu spend)=71%
durabel goods 1.0755
nondurabel goods 2.7477
services 5.5235
ekonomee:farm=2%, industree=18%, servis=80%
Helth=16%, eeterees=4%
exports=-5%
** ekonomee: USA, histree ("history" in krat speek)
USA gross domestik produkt (GDP), trilyun dollars
yeer then dol 2000 dol GDP/persun ("per kapita" in krat speek)
1870 0.0074 170$
1880 0.0112 205
1890 0.0131 208
1900 0.0187 246
1910 0.0353 382
1920 0.0915 860
1930 0.0904 734
1940 0.0997 754
**
1950 0.2938 1.7773 1,942$
1960 0.5264 2.5018 14,960
1970 1.0385 3.7719 19,879
1980 2.7895 5.1617 24,500
1990 5.8031 7.1125 30,729
1995 7.3977 8.0317 32,564
---
2000 9.8170 9.8170 37,572
2001 10.1280 9.8907 37,373
2002 10.4696 10.0488 37,811
2003 10.9712 10.3206 38,611
2004 11.7343 10.7557 39,942
2005 12.4857 11.1346 42,124
2008 14,30 11.3142 47.666
** ekonomee: sum states inside USA...yeer=2003
1. Kalifornya 1,369.2 Bilyun $
2. Nu York 801.0
3. Texas 769.4
4. Florida 517.9
5. Illinois 470.1
6. Pennsland 415.3
7. Ohio 375.7
8. Nu Jersee 371.8
9. Mishigan 341.0
10. Jorjya 303.0
11. N Karolina 295.9
12. Virjinya 283.9
** Fed guvt budjet
fiskal yeer 2006=2.251 trilyun $...bout 20% av gnp
2007=2.8 trilyun
fascinating facts
30. Amerikan Famlee
***** amerika...famlees
("family" in krat speek)
***** famlee trivia: median US famlee inkum:
2000: 63,100$
Des 2009: 61,520$
see how much better off yu R aft 10 yeers?
[dif soers sae 2009 famlee inkum=50,303$, down from 52,500 in 08]
2005 (US buro av laber stats)
71,787,348 famlees
97,840,000 housholds (dif soers sae 108,954,000)
115,356,000 "konsumer units"
2007: 112,000 000 housholds
2009: persons/houshold=2.59
konsumer unit=famlees+singels+norelated grueps+kids awae at koleej
median inkum/famlee=40-65,000$/yeer (2006 estimate)
or bout 25-33,000$/persun-yeer
median houshold inkum
1999: 50,641 $/yeer (in 2007 dollars)
2007: 50,233
guvt: "reel per person disposabel personal inkum"=27,640$ (Des 2005)
***** amerika...famlee net werth
houshold net werth=40,200$ (1995)
55,000 (2000)
wites 79,400
blaks 9,750
Amerika Famlee tibit
averaej US famlee saved 392$ in 2007
averaej US famlee debt=117,952$ in 2007
USA: net werth av all housholds (theer hous+kar+stuff) (Fereral Reserv)
2008, quarter 1: US net werth down 1.7 trilyun $
down 3% tu 56 trilyun $
reel estate down 305 bil, "financial assets" down 1.3 trilyun
2007, quarter 4: US net werth down 3.6%...down 533 bilyun $
2007 averaej net werth=57.7 trilyun $
amerika konsume
USA...consumpshun (yuze up)
konsume=73% av GDP...10.2 trilyun $ in 2008
USA konsume gro 4%/yeer
drink 600 kokes/yeer (equivalent 12-owns kans)
drink 50 gallons/person-yeer av koke (karbonated shugar water)
eet 18 akers av pizza/dae
eet 11.9 pounds av sereal/yeer (korn, oets, weet, ries, cheerios, & so forth)
eet 30,000 kookees in lifetime
fli...averaej number up theer now=61,000
junk...USA hav 45,000 storage plaes for folks with 2 much stuff
with 2 bilyun square foot floor area (& 8-10 ft hi)
1/4 av 2-kar garages R yuzed oenlee tu store overflo from the hous
em hafta park kars outside
yuze 580 pounds av paper/persun-yeer...87 milyun tons/yr
"wilderness" is 38% av the land
****** amerika...USA koestline
** koestline=gage it on small-skale map, shoreline=on big map
koestline shoreline, land miles
Atlantik 2,069 28,673
Gulf 1,631 171413
Pasifik 7,623 40,298
Artik 1,060 2,521
All 12,283 88,633
Amerikan made: Chrysler Krossfire hav 1% amerikan parts init
amerika, number folks
USA=United States ("population" in krat speek)
yeer how many % forin
1790 3,929,000
**
1800 5,308,000
1810 7,239,881
1820 9,638,453
1830 12,866,020
1840 17,069,453
1850 23,191,876
1860 31,443,321
1870 39,8184491
1880 50,155,783
1890 62,947,714
*** yeer how many % forin
1900 76,212,168 13.6%
1910 92,228,531 14.7
1920 106,021,568 13.2
1930 123,202,660 11.6
1940 132,164,569 8.8
1950 151,325,798 6.9
1960 179,323,175 5.4
1970 203,211,926 4.7
1980 226,545,806 6.2
1990 248,709,873 8.0
*** yeer how many % forin
2000 281,421,906 10.4
2003 290,809,000
2006 300,000,000 11.7
2007 302,627,270 20% (17 Aug 07)
2009 308,000,000
**** USA from 2000 tu 2001, number go up bi 3.676 milyun
**** 2000: births=3.914 milyun
die =2.393
net =1.521 "natural inkreez"
immigrants =0.970
wetbaks =1.185
**** projekted number folks (population)
2050 US=377,000,000 werld=8.9-9.5 bilyun, depend on hu duit
******* USA fast gro states
number folks, 2005 % gro 2000 tu 2005
1. Nevada 2,414,807 20.8%
2. Arazona 5,939,292 15.8
3. Florida 17,789,864 11.3
4. Jorjya 9,072,576 10.8
5. Utah 2,469,576 10.6
6. Idaho 1,429,096 10.4
7. Texas 22,859,968 9.6
8. Kolorado 4,665,177 8.4
9. Delaware 843,524 7.6
10. Kalifornya 36,132,147 6.7
USA... 296,410,404 5.3
31. Amerikan size
area histree= how area gro bi add nu land (nu "territorties")
square miles
start USA 1790 888,685
bi luisiana 1803 827,192
bi Florida 1819 58,560
Florida 2 1819 13,443
take Texas 1845 390,143 (bigger than state av Texas)
Oregon 1846 285,580 (Oregon+Washington+Idaho)
Mexikan War 1848 529,017 (Nu Mexiko+Arazona+Kalifornya+Nevada)
bi Gadsden 1853 29,640
Alaska 1867 586,412
Hawaii 1898 6,450
Puerto Rico 1899 3,435
Guam 1899 212
Virjin Iland 1917 133
Marianas 1986 179
32. Amerikan traets
1. 100% amerikan=99% idiot (Jorj B Shaw)
2. amerika, luv it or leev it
3. amerika=land weer men govern, but wemen rule (Jon Brown)
4. Amerika alwaes du the rite thang...aft evreethang els fael (W Churchil)
5. Amerika dont hav a fyucher (Adolf Hitler)
it is half ju & half negro
how kan yu spekt it tu hold tugether?
6. Amerika dont no nuthan bout food, luv, or art (Isadora Dunkan)
7. amerika dont no weer it wanna go, but determined tu set a speed
rekord tu get theer (Larens J Peter)
8. amerika is a big mistake (Sigmund Froid)
9. amerika is a land av inventers & the gratest inventers R nuzmen (Alexander G Bell)
[sarkasm]
Amerikan traets...
10. Amerika is no fun (Charles Dikkens)
11. Amerika is paradise for lawyers (Danyeel Bruester)
12. amerika is the oenlee idealistik naeshun in the werld (Woodro Wilsun)
13. amerika the melting pot boiled over
14. Amerika the melting pot...berned on the bottom & skum on top (Charlee King)
b. & the skum floet tu the top
15. Amerika was diskuvered b4 kolumbus, but em alwaes hushed up it (Oskar Wild)
16. amerika was oft diskuvered b4 kolumbus, but it was hushed up (Oskar Wild)
b.amerika was not diskuvered, it was detekted (Oskar Wild)
17. Amerikans...morose, sullen, repulsiv, klown (Charles Dikkens)
18. Amerikans dont hav passhun, em hav appatite (Ralf W Emersun, 1840)
19. Amerikans hav the best taest munee kan bi (Miles Kington)
Amerikan traets...
20. amerikans like fat book & thin brods (Russel Baker)
21. Amerikans R "endowed bi theer maker" with abundant vies & folly (Ambrose Beers)
22. Amerikans R the dummest on this planet (Mike Moor)
23. amerikans will adore me til me sae sumthang nies bout em (Jorj B Shaw)
24. Amerikans will eet garbage if yu hide it in ketchup (Henree Miller)
****
25. banks hav large windos in front & dont lok the door,
but chaen the pens so yu kant take em
26. drive...Old folks: averaej aej wen em agree tu not drive=85
3.4 milyun Amerikans take 90+ minuts tu drive tu werk
26. drive-up ATM gotta hav "instructions" in Braille [blind kant drive kars]
yuzing Greek/latin/krat gibberish nowon kan figger out.
27. drugstore...yu kan bi sigs at front kounter,
but sik folks gotta walk tu reer wall tu get drugs/medasin
28. garage overflo with werthless junk so yu gotta park 40,000$ kars outside
29. handikap parking required next tu door tu skaking rink
Amerikan traets...
30. pizza get tu yu faster than the ambulans
31. weeneers kum 10 or 12 tu a pakaej, but hod dog buns=8 in a pakaej.
amerika...US werk & jobs
33 Amerikan werkers
***** jobs trivia: 2000: total US jobs=130 milyun
Des 2009: total US jobs=130 milyun
even tho theer R 30 milyun more alults in normal werking age raenj
Okt 2006: "nonfarm employment"=138,000,000
number werkers ("labor force" in krat speek)
yeer hav job outta werk estimated gave-up (quit looking)
2005 141,730,000 7,591,000 5,000,000
** laed off ("displaced werkers" in krat speek)
2004: 5,329,000
2005: 3,815,000
Munee Mag sae 6 milyun/month leev, fired, or laed off=72 mil/yeer
i.e. in 2 yeers, evreewon is gon
warning...lotta guvt stats based on 106.9 milyun werkers
with 8,800,000 outta werk
guvt sae 1,600,000 "marginally attached"
I thank that meen em hu want a job but kant get 1
i.e. "diskeraejed werkers"
2,140,000 farms (2005)
**** luv/hate yer job?
werk...werkers hate theer job most...dokters & lawyers (go figger)
trivia: 47% av Amerikan werkers are "satisfied" with his job
firefiters R most satisfied
leest happy: gas pumpers
50% av werkers admit em went tu werk sik 1+ daes last yeer
2006: USA...averaej vakashun=14 daes. Averaej yuzed=11 daes
34. anamal ("animal" in krat speek)
in US, 1 milyun anamal bites/yeer. 75% R wild anamals.
30,000/yeer treeted for rabees.
fastest land anamal=cheetah=46 MPH
fish: saelfish=68 MPH, mako shark=60 MPH
dolfin=35mph
bird: 95Mph
***** anamal: most dedlee: hous fli kill bi the dazeez it spred
35. anartik ("antartica" in krat speek)
***** anartik trivia: anartik ies=70% av the drinkabel (non salt) water on erth
big ieland almost all kuvered bi sno & ies neer south pole
the koldest, driest, hiest, windyest, loneleeest kontenent
area=5.57 milyun square mile (14.425 mil sq km) (bout=US+Mexiko)
much av the "land" is bout 3000 km abuv see level
but the surfus is sno on top av ies on top av land or undersee
the "land" is several big Ielands
***** anartik: kold: averaej temperature=-49 deg Sentigrade
rekord=-88.3 S (-127 F) at Rushyun base, (13,000 ft abuv seel level)
koest warm up tu 5-15 deg S in summer
***** anartik dri: averaej sno=6 inch/yeer (dri sno & no raen)
** hi most "land" is platto bout 2 miles hi
volkano=Mt Erebus=12,447 ft & hav liquid lava in kone
(on ieland, but ies kuver the water, so yu kan walk tu maenland)
hi peek=16,066 ft hi
** lo loest spot=-8,325 ft (wae under water...er I meen under ies)
***** anartik: wind 200mph kommon along the koest
** ies ("ice" in krat speek)
surfus ies sheet bout 2 miles thik
ies muve tuward koest at 33 ft/yeer
anartika hav 28,000,000 kubik km av ies (7 milyun kubik miles)
=90% av ies on erth
if anartika's ies melted, the sees wood rise bout 200 ft
see wood kuver bout 1/4 av land now abuv see level
but anartik wood rise bout 500 meters (1600 ft) without ies onit
**** anartik: ies shelf...hav 2 larj indent in koest kuvered bi ies (ies shelf)
& bout 10 smaller shelfs...total area=bout 500,000 square mile
Ross see=base for Amerikans hu study anartik=ies shelf
area=487,000 sq km (bout size av Frans)
faes=600 km long & 50 meters hi
wen ies fall off the faes=kalf...make an iesberg
sum iesbergs R bout 20 mile bi 50 mile
note...if ies shelf melt, it WONT raes see level,
the ies floet on the see now, so displaes its wate
**** anartik: peninsula=extenshun av Andees mountins in South Amerika
warmest area, sno on land melt in summer
hav glaeshers in the mountins ("glacier" in krat speek)
36. anteeter prefer termites tu ants...softer & less sting
37 appel klasik tale bout Nueton diskuver gravity kauz appel fall
from tree mae be true. His freend=Reverend Will Stukelee
sweer Nueton told him thats how it was.
Appel is in the rose famlee, & so is peech, plum, cherry.
Fruit in the Garden av Eden: not spesified. Yerropeons
in middel ages that translated the bible yuzed the appel
kauz it was familyer. In India, em thank it be banana.
Middel eest skolars sae the pomegranat.
Big appel: Wi is Nu York Sittee kalled the "big appel"?
in 1920's, reporter Jon Fitzgerald av the morning Telegraf had
a kolumn him kalled "around the big appel".
38 appliance
applians: USA homes hav 600 milyun home appliances
Yu-all spend 15 bilyun $/yeer tu bi nu appliances
USA thro awae 700,000 tons/yeer av small home appliances
Elektrons tu run home stuff:
fridj: top freezer: lektrons kost 50$/yeer
side-bi-side : 65$
39. appraiser...spozed tu take hard look at "propertee" (hous) & deside
wot it is werth. Problem is most R hired bi banks or brokers
tu apprais a hous for sale. Reelters push reel hard for em
tu put max pries on home so reelter get max kommisshun.
Banks also like it kauz em lone more $ for big morgage
=more profit & more fees.
Bad appraes was a majer part av the hous bubbel, 2000-2006.
fascinating facts
40. armadillo alwaes hav 4 babees=identikal dubel-twins
kommon armadillo in US (3-banded) roll up in a ball tu sleep:
Hard outer shell protekt it like turtels.
41. army ("armed foerses" in krat speek)
size av military (Army+Navy+Aer Foers+wotever)
2005 aktiv rezerv spend
Red China 2,255,000 800,000 62.5 bilyun $/yeer
USA 1,474,000 1,291,000 465
India 1,325,000 1,155,000 19.6
North Korea 1,106,000 4,700,000 5.5
Rushya 1,037,000 20,000,000 61.9
South Korea 688,000 4,500,000 20.7
Pakistan 619,000 3.3
Turkee 515,000 379,000 10.1
Vietnam 484,000 4,000,000 3.5
**
USA...number in military at war time.
Sivil War:
1865: North=1,000,000 men, South=250,000
War with Spaen 1898:
at start av war, army=26,000 men
war end: regular army=59,000 men, volunteer orgs=216,000
WW 1:
1918 2,904,000
1919 1,543,000
WW 2:
1939 370,000
1940 540,000
1941 1,620,000
1942 3,970,000
1943 9,020,000
1944 11,410,000
1945 11,430,000
1946 3,450,000
1947 1,590,000
42. around the werld: Sum thank Magellan saeled around the werld: RONG
Magellan was killed in the Filippines, Maktan Ieland, neer
wot is now Cebu Sitee. But 1 av his 5 ships did make it bak
tu spaen=sael round the werld.
see: Magellan
Fli round the werld: 1924: 4 planes fli west from Seatel & take
175 daes tu fli around the werld.
9 yeers later, Wiley Post fli round werld in 7 daes (July 1933)
see: fli
43. arrest 2007: Orem, Utah kops arrested Betty Perry (70 yr old wido)
wi? her grass was not green nuff
44. art art theft is sekond tu smugglers in internashunal krime
45. artik averaej winter temp=-29 deg F
46. aspirin =acetylsalicylic asid. Started from old kure from willo tree.
Bark av willo hav salicylik asid. Man impruev this bi
kemistree...bond acetyl tuit.
47. asset =sumthang av value=yu kan sell it
value av sum assets & related stuf
US homes (reel estate) =21 trilyun $ (2006)
US fed budjet 3 tril
GDP 15 tril
munee suppli 15 tril
all US mutual funds 12 tril
Werld GDP 50 tril
Unfunded SS +Medikare 60 tril
Werld reel estate 75 tril
Werld stok+bonds 100 tril
US financial derivativs=516 tril (2007)
48. asteroid kommon name for bigger meteors...bout 1 mile kross or bigger
meteor=a lump av solid matter in spaes (metal, rok, ies & dust)
in orbit round sun
mass av all asteroids =4% av erth's moon. Number inkreez as size dekreez.
sientists thank a 6-mile wide asteroid hit erth 65 milyun yeers ago
& wiped out the dinosaurs. Sientists thank theer R 1-2 milyun
asteroids big nuff tu wipe out sivilizashun if 1 hit erth (diameter >= 1km).
chans 1 will hit erth in next 100 yeers=1/5000
in last 20 yrs, astronomers found 600 nu neer-erth asteroids >=1 km akross.
Most asteroids R in a belt tween Mars & Jupiter (weer theer shood be a planet)
theer R 364,833 registered asteroids as av 06 Jan 07.
Spaes probes took piks av sum asteroids & find em shaped like potatoe
& hav many impakt kraters.
49. astronaut first astronaut=Yuri Gargarin survived spaes, but died in plane krash 7 yrs later
first on moon =Neel Armstrong, 20 July 1969
fascinating facts
50. Atlas A book av maps is kalled an atlas kauz en erlee daes, the book had
pik on front that sho Atlas hold erth on his bak [atlas=mistikal Greek god].
51. Atmospheer: erth atmospheer luze 5*10^25 molekules/sekond
But nuff left tu last 3-4 bilyun yeers
52. Australya ("australis" in krat speek)
hav 17 milyun folks & 150 milyun sheep
sum sae it is biggest ieland or smallest kontanent
But then aeshya+Yerrop is 1 big ieland
53. Authur: King Authur av the round tabel is a lejund...aent no such king.
Liv in mistikal kingdom av Kamelot (England, bout 550 ad).
Mith inklude queen Guineveer & nite Lancelot.
54. ax tu grind=him hav a purpus or plan him dont menshun
from 1811 story bi Charles Miner...him sharpened a ax but never got paed for it.
man with ax was freendlee til got his sharpened ax, then terned hostil.
55. baby Hed is 25% av birth wate
Ies stae same size til yu die
US: 12 nubirths/dae...hospital giv it tu rong mother.
baby ruth kandy bar was named after Grover Kleevland's dotter Ruth (then a baby)
56. bacteria: evree sq inch on yer skin hav 32 milyun bacteria onit
57. bad, baddest
anamal Tyrannosaurus Rex=10-ton killing masheen
erthquake...Shansi, China, 23 Jan 1556, killed 830,000
hurrikane Kamille, 1969, 190 MPH wind (ignore gusts)
life deep under water, mid atlantik ridj, 8000 ft down, hot springs
water is 700 deg farenhite (370 sentigrade)
liv in ies in anartika...max temperature=-2 deg sentigrade
liv in hot springs with temperature=95 deg sentigrade
baddest man on the planet...Mike Tyson
siklone (syklone in krat speek) 12 Oct 1979, 190 MPH
tifuen ("typhoon" in krat speek) Nansee 12 Sep 1961
est av 213 MPH (sum thank number is 2 hi)
58. bad times: Mar 2009: 50% av US housholds sae em dont hav nuff kash
or savings tu survive even 1 lost paechek.
10% kan last 1 or 2 months
59. baker duzen=13 (duzen+1)
rumer sae in England in the 1400's, bakers oft shorted kustomers
=sell less bred than em klaem (underwate).
folks so outraged, guvt made strikt laws bout bred wate.
But its hard tu predikt wate av loef wen yu make the do.
So tu be on safe side, baker giv yu 13 loefs insted av 12.
Problem: how many av yu bi 12 loefs av bred at 1 time?
fascinating facts
60. bakward in the bakward parts av erth ("undeveloped" in krat speek), 40% R < 15 yrs old.
=poor kuntrees such as most av Afrika, much av Aeshya.
61. bakteria simpel 1-selled life
infekshus bugs, see germs
bakteria nukleeus (the braen that kontrol it) not set off & kleer as in sells
thats wi we sae bakteria R simpel
most liv on (off) other life, but sum du fotosysthesis (tern sunlite intu food)
weer...sum liv in very hostile plaeses...in ies, roks, hot springs, on oeshun floor
most prefer warm & wet
aer is full av em, water is full av em, shit hav even more
many liv on & in yu
bakteria in stomak & guts help dijest food
Theer R more bakteria in yu than yu hav human sells
see also...sells
offis desk hav 400 times the bakteria av toilet seet
size...most R 0.5-2 mikrons (mikron=meter/1,000,000)
biggest bakteria=0.5 mm=500 mikron
***** bakteria speed...fastest=0.00017 km/hr
99% R harmless, but sum kauz kontaejus dazeezes
zampel...blak deth=bubonik plaeg, killed bout 1/3 av Yerropeons in middel aejes
medikans make vakseen from ded or weekened bakteria
get a shot tu prevent yu from get the dazeez that germ kauz
62. bamboo is a grass. Tropikal tipes kan be 10 inch in diameter & 100 ft tall.
Gro in tropiks & nativs make houses (huts) & furniture from it.
Bamboo send up shuets from the base that kan gro up tu 2 ft/dae.
Kan form thik thikkets. Kut out sum & it sent up sprouts, so kan keep
harvesting a grove...never need tu replant. Transplant a sprout
& in 5 yeers, yu kan start harvesting the bamboo (faster than trees).
63. ban guvt ban on DDT kill 30-50 milyun humans
Sins the ban, mosquitoes multipli in hords.
Mosquitoes spred Malaria. Malaria kill 1 milyun humans/yeer.
64. banana is a herb. Kommershal banana depend on man tu spred it
take 18 months for sprout tu make ripe banana.
most banana plants kum up as sprouts from base av old plant.
Man chop off sprout & transplant it=nu banana plant.
Green bananas R 3% shugar, ripe banana is 20% shugar.
Man gro 44 milyun tons/yeer av bananas.
65 bank
***** bank trivia: US hav 8,195 banks left (Sep 2009)
1% av banks hav 77% av all bank munee
Goldman Saks, 2008 got 10 bilyun $ baelout from US taxpaers
15 Aug 2009: 75 banks go bust so far in 2009
problem bank list=416
profit on inkum tax form=2.3 bilyun $
tax paed=14 milyun $...0.6% av inkum
werker pae=10.9 bilyun$
in quarter 4 2008, got 1.48 bilyun $ "tax kredit" from US guvt
***
20 banks/dae get robbed. averaej take=2,500$
averaej av 3 banks/yeer fael=go broke (50 yrs thru 2007)
USA hav 4,893 banks with assets > 100 milyun $
***
25 Nov 2008: USA hav 8,384 banks (was 8,451 in 2007)
73 banks bot out bi other banks
9 banks go bust
that inklude Washington Mutual=307 bilyun $=biggest bank ever tu go broke
******* big bank:
biggest bank=Barclayy PLC, London...assets=1.58706 trilyun $
biggest USA bank=Citigruep (NY) assets=1.49404 trilyun $
2000:USA hav 9905 banks with fed deposit inshuer
2005 : 8832
****** bank...number banks in United States & assets in bilyun $
number assets naeshunal banks save & kredit
yeer banks bilyun $ number assets lone yuenyun
1834 506 0.419 number number
1835 704 0.498
1840 901 .658
1845 707 .434
1850 824 .532
1855 1,307 .817
1860 1,562 1.000
1865 1,643 1.357
1870 1,937 1.781
1875 3,336 3.205
1880 3,355 3.399
1885 4,350 4.427
1890 8,201 6.358
1895 9,818 7.610
1896 9,468 7.994 3,689 3.354 420
**
number assets naeshunal banks save & kredit
yeer banks bilyun $ number assets lone yuenyun
1900 13,053 11.388 3,731 4.944 400
1905 18,767 17.511 5,664 7.325 430
1910 25,151 22.922 7,138 9.892 610
1915 28,017 28.363 7,597 11.790 980
1920 30,909 53.094 8,024 23.267 1,600
1925 29,052 62.232 8,066 24.252 3,480
1930 24,273 74.290 7,247 28.828 6,270
1935 16,047 59.951 5,245 26.009 4,360 38
1940 15,076 79.729 5,164 36.816 4,220 223
1945 14,660 162.169 5,015 81.491 6,840 384
1950 14,676 179.165 4,971 89.691 13,250 884
1955 14,308 229.626 4,743 107.736 29,620 2,447
1960 14,019 282.872 4,542 131.433 57,900 4,981
1965 14,310 412.493 4,803 193.748 105,460 9,220
1970 14,187 611.305 4,638 314.334 138,620 15,523
bank bust
Depresshun: 9,000 US banks went bust in 1930's
**** baddest resent=1984-1992...2600 inshured banks go broke
Savings & Lone skandal, 1986-95...1,043 "thrifts" go bust
1990: 534 banks go bust (bellyup)
spotlite: Linkoln Savings, assets=5.5 bilyun $
president Charles Keeting gotu jael
***** bank bust: hous bubbel
Hous bubbel go bust 2007-2010
Jan 2008: US guvt broker deel...Bank av Amerika bi KuntreeWide
so it wont go bankrupt. Kuntreewinde hav 60 bil $ av
werthless morgages.
2009: FDIC run outta munee (it inshuer yer akkounts in banks)
US guvt gotta bael it out
Fed guvt take over Fannee Mae & Fredee Mak: em broke
***** bank bust: 2008: biggest ever=washington Mutual=307 bilyun $
2nd biggest=Indy Mak bank=32 bilyun $
***** bank bust: number banks (go bust, belly up, bankrupt, broke)
("bank failure" in krat speek) United States
number
yeer bust with federal inshuer
1934 61 9
1935 32 26
1937 83 76
1940 48 43
1945 1 1
1950 5 4
1955 5 5
1960 2 1
1965 9 5
1970 7 7
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1982 42
1985 116
1986 145
1987 184
1988 200
1989 534 206
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1990 168
1991 124
1992 120
1994 15
2002 11
2008 25
2009 51 (as av 1 July)
bank fees
** trivia: in 2006, 20% av bank kustumers paed 1+ overdraft fees
2009: estimate=banks kollekt 38 bil $ for overdraft fees
Tipikal overdraft fee=35$.
If yu dont no yer outta munee, yu mae rite more cheks &
thus bank charj yu overdraft on eech chek
US hav 130 milyun cheking akkounts
thus, 38 bil $ overdraft fee=300$/chek akkount
1. If yu yuze debit kard & dont hav nuff munee in akkount, most banks let yu duit
averaej charj for negativ balans =34$
averaej yu spend that kauzed this=17$
2. not nuff munee in yer akkount? 25$ (or 35$)
3. paper statement 2$
4. want kopee av yer cheks? 3$
5. 2 many kalls tu bank anser desk? 2$/kall
6. Bank gift kard...kost tu bier 2-10$
kost tu yuzer 5$/month
luze the kard? 15-25$
Warning...estimated 8 bilyun $/yeer never spended
"overdraft protection"...bank charj yu 25-35$ if yu dont
hav nuff munee in yer chek akkount tu pae the chek
(keep chek from bouns)=balans 2 lo=overdraft.
Sum banks also charj yu xtra for evree dae yu hav negativ balans.
On top av this, yu dont find out bout it til yu get the monthly
statement. Bi then yu mae hav run up 200$ in fees.
66. bankrupt ("personal bankruptsee" in krat speek)
yeer number personal bankrupt
1980 287,570
1997 1,350,000
2001 1,500,000
2003 1,600,000
2004 1,597,462
2005 2,078,415
2006 570,000
2007 800,000
2008 1,083,000
2009 1,430,000 up 32% from 08
60% av folk bankrupt (non biz): kauz=(medikal bills+no job)
averaej bill=25,000$
servae: 50% sed medikal bills drove em bankrupt
& 75% av em had helth inshuer (em oft lost theer job 2).
2005...Kongres passed a "strikt" nu bankrupt law under hevee pressure from
banks & kredit venders. Take effekt 17 Oktober 2005.
This kauzed number hu file tu drop 1 yr after, but then
number went bak up agin.
bankrupt late tibits
Jan 2008 bankrupt=66,050, up 37% from Jan 07
Feb 2008 personal bankrupt up 28% over 2007...3,960/dae
***** bank teller: term started after 1929 stok market krash:
Banks hired cheep laber tu tell yu theer is no munee.
67. bar kode first tu hav bar kode...Wriglees gum
68. barbee doll=Barbee Milisent Roberts. Toy doll kame out 9 Mar 1959
hav 4 sisters
Ken kame out in 1961, but em split up in 2004
If skale up tu human size: 39-23-33
69. barber striped kolers on barber pole=simbol av barbers
in 1700's barbers pulled teeth & "let blood"=bleed yu.
Pole was red tu hide yer blood. Wite was bandages wrapped round it tu dri.
In US, blue added around 1900.
fascinating facts
70. barn Wi R barns red?
In 1800's first preservativs inkluded iron oxide wich made the barn red
it werked good, was cheep, & eezee tu get...so most adopted it.
tudae's red is briter; iron oxide is dull red.
** barn berner...around 1850 sum demokrats opposed the pro-slave party platform.
party simbel=jakass. assume keep asses in a barn.
party klaemed the anti's wood bern down the barn tu get rid av rats.
now "barn-berner" meen a lotta xsitement, lotta interest.
71. barnakel 100 tons/yeer av barnakels gro on big ship (if in the water all yeer)
nuborn look like flee
stage 2...hav 3 ies & 12 legs
stage 3... 0 ies & 24 legs
em attach tu sumthang solid & stae theer til it die
72. baseball 56 milyun gotu majer-leeg baseball per yeer in US
less than half av majer-leeg plaers ever hit a home run
73. bat fliing mammals. bout 800 speesees
Bat legs R 2 week tu stand on...bats kant walk
Most bats eet insekts...katch em on the wing at nite.
Bats yuze ultrasound kliks tu find insekts.
Vanpire bat suk blood from kows & hoerses. from top av bak.
wingspan=7 inch. Wate=2 owns.
Liv in Sentral & South Amerika.
74. bath 7% av Amerikans sae em never take a bath
Up til modern times, famlee took 1 bath in same tub & dont chaenj water.
Father go first & thus get kleenest. Next kame suns, bi aej.
Then wemen, girls, grand {kids or parents}, kinfolk, borders.
Last was baby. Bi then the water is very dirty. This leed tu saeing
"dont thro out baby with the bath water".
75. bathroom 2006: half av nu houses in United States hav 2.5 or more bathrooms
1950: 1% did
1995: 1,201,000 houses in US dont hav a bathroom
10,000 yrs ago: Orknee Ielands, Skotland: hav wot look like
military latrines karved outta roks, with draens.
Implie em thro in water tu karry awae the shit.
2000BC: Kreet (Minoan) yuzed klae draen pipes.
76. bathtub Wi R the fauset & draen at same end av the tub?
maen reesun is eezeer & cheeper for plumber tu duit that wae.
Water & draen pipes go in "runs", yuzyually in walls & neer eech other
Cheepest if yer fausets R neer a wall with a run init.
Sum other "sugessted reesuns":
1. If draen at other end, dripping fauset staen go hole length av tub.
2. sum folks sit in the tub tu take a bath.
Thank bout sit on a draen hole.
Then thank bout fauset stik out & stab yu in the bak.
3. sum plubming kumpanees tried put fauset & draen
in the middel. Didnt sell. Dont duit no mo.
77. beard longest=17.5ft, Hans Langseth
If let gro all yer life: 30 ft
78. bed bedstraw is not straw, its an erb.
79. bee honybees hav haer on theer ies
beezwax: 1600-1700's: many wemen yuzed bee's wax on faes tu hide "blemishes".
If sumwon get "in yer faes" that kauz her tu sae "mind yer oen beezwax".
If sit neer fire or out in hot sun, wax melt & run: yu Luze faes
fascinating facts
80. beef Argentina et 10 owns/(persun-dae)=most av NE kuntree
81. beem me up Skotee Many thank this from Star Trek
Noweer in Star Trek TV or muvees did NE-1 sae this
Standard term was "interjize"
82. beet 250,000 wifes/yeer beet up her husband in US
83. Bell, Alexander Graham...invented the fone (1876)
set speed rekord for powered boet=70 MPH wen him was 72
84. Bernard, staent, dog: dont karry a kask av brandy like yu see in kartoons.
Hospies av St Bernard neer the St Bernard pass started bout 1000AD.
Dogs around 1650. Dogs R traened tu help find & save lost
folks in the sno in the neerbi alps (Swiz-Italy border).
85. best man In old daes a man looking for a woman had tu fret bout her kin folks.
kin was oft opposed, mite fite. lotta bloody danjer.
So wen him go kortin him need freend tu watch his bak
& help fite off mad kin. Even at wedding, him need bodygard
tu watch for NE-1 hu objekt. Bodygard bekame the best man.
86. better biz Buros (BBB)
# 1 komplaent=home kontrakters...2006: 85,000 komplaents
40% av em...kant find the "kontrakter"
# 3 komplaent=Kar repaer... 37,000 komplaents
87. bi ("purchase" in krat speek, "buy" in obsoleet krat)
Luisiana bi: 1803, 530,000,000 akers=828,000 square miles=23% av now USA area
kost=15,000,000$=2.8 sents/aker
Alaska kost 7,200,000$=2 sents/aker
88. bi the farm slang for sumwon die
started in military wen men far from home talk bout save munee
so wen him get out him kan bi a farm or bi the old famlee farm.
wen him die, him is put in the ground. Twisted mind kan
sae him "bi the farm"
89. bibel (bible in krat speek)
King James Bibel hav 50 riters, 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses.
fascinating facts
90. big, biggest
***** biggest anamal=Blue Wale...100 foot long (33 meters), 150 tons
bare Kodiak: 8 ft long, 1,700 pounds
bird Kalifornya Kondor (kan fli)
Ostrich...kant fli, 9 ft hi, 350 pounds.
Ie is bigger than its braen.
fish wale shark=59 ft
frog Goliath frog=30sm (11.8 inch), west Afrika
jellyfish 7ft kross maen body & legs 120 ft long
kurrent Kuroshio, neer Japan. go 50 mile/dae. 1 km deep.
lake Kaspian See (Rushya)
lava Mount Lake, Iesland, 8 Jun 1793, lasted 8 months
killed 10% av ieslanders
spider goliath tarantula...body bout 7 inch long, legs span 9 inch
thang "the blob"=200 milyun lite-yeers wide, many galaxees init
wave=Lituya Bae, Alaska, 1958, 1720 ft hi, mag 8.3 erthquake kauzed it
bout 40 milyun kubik yards slide down mountin side intu see
91. Big Ben...Brits klaem the name oenlee appli tu the bell that make the
nois, not tu the klok or the tower.
big wig: 1600-1700's. Rich folk weer wigs. Tu get rid av louses,
em put it inside paestree & bake it in oven. This kauzed the
wig tu fluff up...look bigger.
92. bike (bicycle in krat speek)
bout 1 bilyun on erth, 400 milyun in red China
first bike with petals in 1840 (MacMilian)
93. bild ("public constructin" in krat speek)
United States spend on bild thangs...hous, bildings, rodes, dams
bilyun $
yeer total privat publik (guvt)
1915 3.262 2.543 0.719
1920 6.742 5.397 1.352
1925 11.439 9.301 2.138
1930 8.741 5.883 2.858
1935 4.232 1.999 2.233
1940 8.682 5.054 3.628
1945 5.809 3.411 2.398
1950 33.575 26.709 6.866
1955 46.519 34.804 11.715
1960 54.738 38.875 15.863
1965 73.747 51.685 22.062
1970 94.855 31.864 28.096
***** bild: part av privat:
hous ("residential buildings" in krat speek)
BIZ =commercial+industrial+other
farm=barns+sheds+fenses
utilities=elektrik, fone, gas, pipelines, raelroeds
** bilyun $
yeer hous BIZ farm yutilitees
1915 1.329 0.478 0.120 0.549
1920 2.281 1.964 0.300 0.771
1925 5.656 2.060 0.170 1.302
1930 2.182 2.003 0.086 1.527
1935 1.071 0.472 0.065 0.363
1940 3.130 1.025 0.095 0.771
1945 1.376 1.020 0.167 0.827
1950 18.768 3.904 0.880 3.045
1955 22.409 7.611 0.853 3.770
1960 22.975 10.149 0.849 4.621
1965 27.934 16.509 1.038 5.788
1970 31.864 21.417 1.512 11.020
***** bild: floor area, based on kontrakt award, bilyun sq ft
yeer total houses ("residential buildings" in krat speek)
1925 0.936 0.559
1930 0.510 0.230
1935 0.252 0.135
1940 0.690 0.421
1945 0.397 0.111
1950 1.475 0.989
1955 1.695 1.089
1960 2.154 1.300
1965 2.843 1.711
1970 2.938 1.781
94. bilding tall bildings (ski-skraper) swae in the wind.
28 July 1945: B 25 ran intu the Empire State Bilding. Bilding didnt mind.
*** Tall bildings hite date dun
1. Taipei 101 Taipei, Taiwan 1,667 ft 2004
2. Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur, Malaesya 1,483 1998 (twins)
3. Seers Tower Shekago, Ill 1,451 1974
4. Jin Mao Shanghai, Red China 1,381 1999
5. Werld Trade Senter Nu York Sitee 1,368 1970 (twins)
[just a hole in the ground now]
6. Intl Finans 2 Hong Kong 1,362 2003
7. SITIK Plaza Shenzhen, Red China 1,283 1996
8. Shun Hing Shenzhen, Red China 1,260 1996
9. Empire State Nu York Sitee 1,250 1931
10. Sentral Plaza Hong Kong 1,227 1992
11. China Bank Hong Kong 1,205 1989
95. bird ("avian" in krat speek)
10,000 speeses & bout 300 bilyun birds
10,000/yeer die from run intu windo
birds dont hav teeth=kant chu food=get it down hole.
birds dont hav musels tu swallo...depend on gravity tu get food down
thus birds woodnt survive in spaes (in orbit, or tween planets)
fastest: Peregrine Falkon kan dive at 200 MPH.
hiest: 37,000 ft...Aerliner over Afrika ran intu a kondor.
migrate: Artik tern migrate from artik tu anartik=11,000 miles eech wae.
90% av speeses that go extinkt sins man keep rekords R birds.
zampel=dodo, pasenger pidgeon
Du birds get jet lag on theer long migrashuns?
no...go north-south, so dont chaenj time zone.
besides, em take months, so hav plentee av time tu adjust.
Wi du sum birds walk & others hop?
tree birds hop, ground birds walk/run
hummingbirds kan hardly stand...em fli evreeweer
96. birth USA (United States)
1 birth evree 7 sekonds, 1 die evree 13 sekonds
********** birth rate *********
birth rate=number live babees per 100 wemen with aej >= 15
yeer number rate die delta
1950 3,632,000 1,452,000 2,180,000
1960 4,258,000 1,712,000 2,546,000
1970 3,731,386 1.84% 1,921,031 1,810,355
1980 3,612,258 1.59% 1,989,841 1,622,417
1990 4,092,994 1.67% 2,148,463 1,944,531
1995 3,899,589 1.46% 2,312,132 1,587,457
2000 4,056,814 1.44% 2,403,351 1,653,463
2005 4,143,000 1.40% 2,432,000 1,711,000
** all wemen prime aej...15-44 yrs old
yeer birth rate wite blak all wite blak
1970 1.84 % 1.74% 2.51% 8.74% 8.41% 11.3%
***** birth
25% av births R cesarian (kut open woman & pull out kid)
% av mothers not wed (2003)...overall=33%
wite 29.4% (non-mexikan wites=23.6%)
blak 68.2%
Indians 61.3%
Mexikan 45.0%
1 web site sed more babees R born during waning moon than waxing moon.
now if him wood sae how a moon wax & wane, we mite no sumthang.
[wax=get briter, wane=dimmer]
******* kid birth...first birth: averaej laber=13 ours
averaej stae in hospital:1970=3.9 daes, 1992=2.1 daes
***** birthdae: 18.34 milyun hav same birthdae as yu
97. BIZ ("business" in krat speek)
Koke fired its werker wen his wife bied him PEPSI at a fast food joint
Miller Beer fired a fork-lift operater wen Nuzpaper pik sho him drink a Bud
98. BIZ kard: That littel kard with yer name & the werk yu du:
Started as soshal kall kard in Yerrop around 1800.
Rich folks (em so rich em dont hafta werk) yuzed it tu
intro self wen em wanna meet sumwon faemus or gotu party.
The kard implied yu hav "old munee" (inherited).
Em had rited rules av "ettiquet". Zampel 16 yr old girl kan
hav max av 6 kards (kards her got from possabel suiters).
The biz kard in modern sens started around 1915.
Bi 1960, the old idea av soshal kard is gon.
99. Blak hole: biggest found so far, mass=6.4 bilyun suns
fascinating facts
100. Bli, Kapt...Brit see ship kaptin=archtipe madman & oger.
1789: Fletcher Christian mutinee ginst Bli & send him awae
in small boet. (ship=the Bountee) Bli sael 3,620 miles &
find land, retern tu English area & set out tu find Christian.
Most dont no that Bli was in 2 more mutinees:
1797 in England: jenral mutinee in port ginst Brit navy.
1808: Bli was guvner av Nu South Wales, Austraelya & prohibit
alkohol. That led tu the Rum Rebel. Endland fired Bli for that.
Dispite that, Bli gotu England & got promoted tu "Vies Admiral".
100. blimp Biggest=Fuju film ad
101. blind how du blind tell 1 dollar bill from anuther?
1. tu be legally blind, yu gotta see <= 10%.
thus, many "blind" kan see good nuff tu reed the korner av dollar bill.
2. for the rest, em gotta depend on persun hu suppli the munee tu
em wot it iz. Then blind fold eech in spesifik was tu tell em apart.
semi standard: 1$ flat & full
5: fold in half, 10: fold 3 times
20: fold it the long wae
dont take no 50's & 100's
102. blink 1 blink=1/5 sekond
Averaej man blink 15,000/dae=5,475,000/yeer
70 yeers=383,502,000
wemen:2 times that
103. blizzard United States: kold+sno+wind
11-14 March 1888, blizzard in Northeest kill 400
Jan 1996, Appalachians, 27 ded, kost=3 bilyun $
Jan 1998, Nu York tu Maen, 16 ded, kost=1.4 bilyun $
104. blog 2007: 93.8 milyun blogs on the internet (werldwide)
105. blood blood is 92% water. if drop 1%, yer thirsty.
***** blood: how much: human hav bout 5.5 quarts av blood or 6 liters
note: 1 quart=0.9463 liters
***** blood trivia: yu hav nuff blood tu feed 1,200,000 mosquitoes.
1 "yunit" av blood=1 pint in old daes (bout 500ml)
density=same as predikted see density 200 milyun yeers ago.
Koler: mammals hav red blood, krustaeshuns=blue, sum fish=wite,
insekts: yello or green.
eech hart beet send out 50 cc's av blood
rest hart beet=70/minut=3.5 liters/minut. Take 1.5 minuts
tu pump all blood thru hart.
***** blood tipe: most kommon=tipe o
Red sells kum in 4 kommon tipes: a, b, ab, o
wite folks: 40% A, 11% B, 4% AB, 45% o
subset=the "rh" fakter...+ or -. Most folks R +
Wen yu get blood ("transfusions" in krat speek), doner blood
gotta be kompatabel with getter blood. Best wae tu be kompatabel:
both same tipe.
tipe o- is kall "yuniversal doner": yu kan giv it tu NE-1.
tipe AB kan take blood from NE-1
***** blood: red blood sells liv 120 daes, so body gotta make 250 bilyun/dae
Make red blood sells in bone marro: 500 pounds in lifetime.
***** blood
Karbon-monoxide attach tu red blood sells much eezeeer than oxygen,
so small % CO in the aer kan kill yu.
ph=7.4
***** blood tubes: yu hav bout 70,000 miles av blood tubes (pipes)
("arterees & vanes" in krat speek)
***** blood sells: yu hav 30 trilyun red blood sells=speer with ruff surfus
red sells karry ozygen tu all other sells
2 tril platelets...help blood klot
500 milyun wite blod sells...fite dazeez
***** blood plasma=the liquid part av blood is 90% water
106. blue wi blue thangs for baby boys?
Middel aejes, beleeved blue warded off evil spirits.
em thot blue klothes wood protekt yung boys.
107. blue ies (blue "ice" in krat speek)
1. stuff from flush toilet in aerline oft freez=blue ies
it sumtimes hit land as blok av ies up tu 2ft bi 3ft
2. blue ies is also the ies at botton av glasher or ies sheet
it is kompressed bi wate av ies abuv it & look a littel blueish
The pressure foers out small aer bubbels in the ies.
108. blue jeens: The hevee kloth started in Genoa, Italy bout 1500AD.
"jeens" from the french werd "genes"...Genoa.
1850: Levi Straus gotu San Fransisko during the gold rush.
& invent the Amerikan blu jeens. Made from kanvas saels
from ships abandoned in San Fran wen the saelers hed for
the hills.
1851: Levi add metal rivets tu pokkets. Also get nu kloth=
denim (a tipe av kotton).
Later: him die em blue.
blue laws not-on-Sundae laws=state & lokal laws prohibit almost evreethang
see silly laws, inklude blu laws
Anglikan preest Sam Peters in London rite bout strikt laws in Amerika
that prohibit...zampel=man kant kiss wife on Sundae.
Him sed the list av laws is in a book bound in blue
ever sins, laws that forbid wotever on Sundae R kalled blue laws.
first blue law in US: Virjinya, 1617 law sae evreewong gotta
gotu cherch on Sundae & if yu dont militia kum & drag yu awae.
109. blue moon this was a vaej term for "a long time"
xtra dust from volkanoes made moon look blue...many yeers til next time.
tudae guvt define it as a month that hav 2 full moons...bout 13 months apart.
fascinating facts
110. blue ribbon Wi is blue ribbon more first than first plaes?
in 1348 King Edward 3 invented the "Order av the Garter"
& yuzed a blue ribbon for the nite tu weer tu sho how portant him be.
different theeree sae blue stand for the ski=hi up
red=sun=not as hi
yello=stars...many yeers ago sumwon thot stars was loer than the sun
green=grass=lo
this hav holes...the sun is yello, not red.
most stars look wite, not yello (sum R red & sum R blue)
blue ski Wi is the ski blue? Dust in aer skatter lite from the sun.
If not for this skatter, ski wood be blak & yu kood see start
in the dae. But it skatter blue & violet more than red
& yello. (skatter shorter wavelengths more).
111. bob tu bob=tu kut short, kut down, make smaller.
in 1940's teen girls started tu weer short sox.
up til then all female sox go abuv nee, yuzyually mid-thi.
short sox bekame "bobby sox". Tudae all sox R bobby.
if em R long, em R nilons.
112 bombs first bomb raed on Berlin in WW2 killed 1 elefant in the zu.
1999 Kosovo war, 13 kruiz missels: 2 hit the target.
1 web site klaem 92 nukleer bombs lost at see
WW 2 bomb raed on Tokyo in 9 March 1945...estimate 100,000 killed
16 square miles bern. This was badder than the a-bombs.
113 Bond, James 50% av living humans hav seed 1+ James Bond muvee
1953...first James Bond book="Casino Royal" bi Lankaster Fleeming
1962...first James Bond muvee=Dr No
114. bone yer born with 300 bones, die with 206, if yu dont luze NE
25% av bones R in yer feet
hed bone=22 bones.
skull= 8 bones fuzed tugether
faes =14 bones
tael bone hav 3-5 bones (small & semifuzed)
nee-kap bone gro wen yer about 2 yrs old
smallest human bones=in the eer
biggest="femer"=thi bone=upper leg bone
***** bone: Humans & giraff hav 7 bones in the nek (true for most mammals)
** bone china...em add ground bones tu klae em make the china from
115. book Iesland reed more books/persun than all other kuntrees
USA: 2003: reed books 99 ours/persun-yeer
2007: servae...25% did not reed NE books in past yeer
41% red 1-5 books
87% av kollej grads red 1+ books
116. boomer jenerashun (boomers)
USA...em born in 1946-1964...big inkrees in number born aft WW2
77 milyun boomers
now approech retire aej
33% av em dont hav 1 dollar saved up for tu retire
oenlee thang av value em hav is theer hous
apparentlee em spekt tu liv off the hous
But oenlee bout 60% av 60+ hav paed off the morgage.
117. boomerang jenerashun...groed-up kids retern home tu liv with parents
in US, 5 milyun a yeer retern home.
kid aej % liv with parents
22-24 60%
25-29 30%
30-34 25%
118. boot
bootlegger...in old west, ginst law tu sell wiskee tu indians.
smugglers sumtimes hid it in theer boots. Em get the
name bootlegger. Then name appli tu all hu sell nonlegit
alkohol-based booz.
kowboy boot..hav pointed toe so him kan put it in the stirrup eezee.
hi heel tu keep it in the stirrup.
top av boot is big & lues, so wen hoers thro kowboy & boot stae in stirrup,
him kan kik off the boot eezee.
119. booth: Booth saved Linkoln
Robert Linkoln slipped off platform onto raelroed trak with traen kummin.
Edwin Booth grabbed his kote & pulled him bak & saved his life.
Edwin=brother av the Booth that shot & kill Abe Linkoln.
fascinating facts
120. border How long is border tween Kanada & US loer 48? 3987 miles
Alaska & Kanada 1538 miles
US & Mexiko? 1993 miles
121. bordwalk Atlantik Sitee, NJ bordwalk dun in 1870
122. borro 1 in 6 admit em never repaed munee em borroed from freend or famlee
123. boss
trivia: 98% av bosses sae theer jokes R funny. 3% av werkers agree.
trivia: 66% av bosses sae mor-ral at the kumpanee in Xseelent
50% av werkers agree.
1982: big boss man make 42 times the pae av averaej werker
2006: big boss man make 431 times as much
124. bottel 1970: first time koke kum in plastik bottel (insted av glass or Al kan)
125. braen human braen averaej 1.3 kg (3 pounds)...bout 1.5% av body wate
yer skin wae 2 times braen wate
***** braen hav 100 bilyun nuerons (nerv sells)
Einsteins braen was 1,375 grams (averaej)
braen hav bout 100 bilyun nerv sells ("nuerons" in krat speek)
nerv sells R 85% water
signals go down nerv sells at dif speeds, depend on tipe av "nueron"
fastest=260 MPH (120 meter/sek)
braen is 60% wite matter & 40% grae
braen yuze 20% av the oxygen yer body yuze
& put out 20% av body heet
10 watts at idel, 50% more in deep thot
men & wemen braens werk different, even wen we sleep
blood flo thru braen=750cc/minut (1.6 pints)
stroke...kauz is the pipe that take blood tu braen brake
in bout 7 seks yu pass out. in 2 minuts, yer ded.
3rd biggest kauz av deth
nerv sells liv bout as long as yu du. If die or killed, dont gro bak.
***** braen Anamal: Starfish dont hav a braen
dog braen=72 grams
kat braen=30 grams
elefant: 6kg
126. brass munkee ("monkey" in krat speek)
In 1600-1800's, ships had kannon & iron balls. Needed tu
store sum iron balls neer kannon so kan get em fast.
Navy made a square iron frame tu put on ship floor.
4 balls bi 4 balls. Kalled this a "munkee".
(nowon no weer navy invent its straenj names)
But iron balls tended tu rust tite tu the iron munkee.
Solv this with a brass munkee. (bras dont rust neer as much).
"kold nuf tu freez balls off a bras munkee":
Wen it get kold, bras shrink more than iron. If kold nuf,
bras munkee squeez iron balls so hard, em pop out.
fascinating facts
127. bred
In old daes, famlee had a loef av bred & kut it: werkers & kommon
folk got the bottom (probablee berned), Menfolk got the middel,
gests got the top="upper krust"...the best part.
******** bred: United States: pries av 1 pound av bred (bread in krat speek)
Bred flour
yeer $/pound $/5-pound
1890 0.145
1895 0.120
1900 0.125
1905 0.160
1910 0.180
1913 0.056 0.165
1915 0.070 0.210
1920 0.115 0.405
1925 0.093 0.305
1930 0.086 0.230
1935 0.083 0.253
1940 0.080 0.215
1945 0.088 0.321
1950 0.143 0.491
1955 0.177 0.538
1960 0.203 0.554
1965 0.209 0.581
1970 0.243 0.589
1980 0.48/loef
1990 0.66/loef
**
2000 0.93/loef
2007 1.58/loef (20 owns)
128. breeth humans breeth...12-18 per minut or 18,000-22,000 per dae.
(wen yu dont du nuthan)
xersize: 60/minut
nu baby: 40/minut
shallo breth=about 1 pint (1/2 quart)
Thus, yu breeth 7.5 quart/minut=7.1 liter/minut=10,220 liter/dae
=3,732,650/yeer=261,000,000 liters in 70 yeers
or 9,220,000 kubik foot.
in reel life, yu gotta get up off the kouch sumtime, so yu breeth more than this.
Yu exhael 0.6 gram/minut av karbon dioxide
129. brest 32,000 brest inplants/month in USA
fascinating facts
130. bridj
first bridj kross Mississippi River: start in 1854, dun in 1856
Rok Ieland Bridj Kumpany...raelroed bridj from Illinois tu Iowa.
2 yrs later, steem boet on river hit bridj, katch fire
kumpany sue bridj oener (raelroed), Linkoln defend & win
"galloping Gertee"=nikname for bridjes that swae a lot in the wind
1. 1849...suspended bridj over Ohio River at Weeling, WV, 900 ft
bilder=Charles Elet, longest suspend bridj at that time
it bloed down in Mae 1854
2. Takoma Narroes bridj amazed evreewon bi the kontorshuns
the roed did wen wind blo
8 miles west av Takoma, Wash, over puget sound, bout 1 mile long
bild started in June 1938, fell down 7 Nov 1940 at 1100
kauz=supports under roed...2 small & rong kind
man tu blame=Moisseif (him bilded the gold gate bridj)
him yuzed solid sheets insted av open beems
side winds on the sheets kauzed bridj tu
"harmonik torshun vibrashuns (ossilashuns)"
3. long US suspend bridjes
Brooklin Bridj in Nu York Sitee, 24 Mae 1883
It .started modern era av suspend bridjes
name maen span yeer dun weer
Verrazano- 4,260 ft 1964 NY Sitee
Narroes
Gold Gate 4,200 1937 San Fran, Kalif
Makinak 3,800 1957 Mich
Jorj Wash 3,500 1931 NY Sitee
Takoma 2,800 1950 Takoma, Wash (nu bridj)
4. longest US bridj: Lake Pontchartraen Kauzwae (neer Nu Orleens)
23.9 miles long.
In middel, yu kant see land. Sum drivers get skared & stop
& bakup traffik.
Hurrikane Katrina (2005) nok it down.
**** bridj golden gate...600 hav jumped off tu kill self
structure yuze 800,000 rivits
kabels tu hold up the roed hav 80,000 miles av steel wire.
**** bridj, United states, kount (number)
yeer number number
bridjes obsoleet or "deficient"
1996 581,862 182,726
2000 587,755 167,993
2003 592,246 160,819
131. brik oldest man-made bild stuff...7000 yeers (Sumerians).
Bout 10 milyun briks in Empire State bilding (1250 ft tall)
Erlee houses in Amerika was oft made from briks that kame
as ballast in ships from England. Traders sold the briks,
then put export goods theer.
132. bubbel
1634-1637 First bubbel av the modern sens was the Dutch tulip bubbel
Tulips was traded on the Amsterdam stok exchaenj=first stok mania.
At peek, 1 tulip bulb kood be werth more than a good hous.
133. budget (budjet in nonkrat)
federal guvt budget...see feds
Amerikan houshold spend:
hous =33.8% av spend (B4 the hous bubbel av 2000-2007)
food =13.5%
helth =6.6%
eet out =5.6%
hous...morgage=11.7%
tax = 6.6%
134. bug (insekt)
true bug is subset av insekts
kadydid bug heer with its legs (holes in legs)
krikets make theer nois bi rub hind legs
sum insekts smell with theer legs
135. bull many thank red make bull mad. It dont. Bull is koler blind.
apparently this idea kum from bullfiters in spaen.
bullfiter flap the kape...bull see muvement & mae charj.
Red koler is so the fans in the stands kan see it.
Siens test: find wite kape atrak bull gooder than red.
136. bullet rifel bullet exit speed=3,000 ft/sekond
pistol: 1,400
Shoot pistol strate down intu water: bullet go 6 ft deep
137. burgler 27% av hous burglers raed the fridj
138. butterfli...butterfli taest with theer feet
Koler on wings is from skales on the surfus.
139. butter it take 21 pounds av milk tu make 1 pound av butter
fascinating facts
140. button At first, men shirts had buttons on rite, wemen on left
Wen buttons started, em kost a lot. Oenlee rich kood afford em.
men button theer shirt. Wemen had maeds that buttoned it for her.
klothes makers stopped this around 1980.
141. byuetee: ("beauty" in krat speek)
US wemen bi 1,000,000 gallons/yeer av lotions, kreems, ets
142. Calculate, calculus...kum from latin "calcule" wich meen "pebbel"
wen Romans needed tu du NE math, em yuzed
speshalist called "calculatores". Em yuzed a abacus
tu du math. Abacus yuzed "pebbels" on wired tu stand
for numbers. The "pebbel" was yuzeyually pottery,
sumtimes wood.
143. Canary Ielands dont hav nuthang tu du with canarys
name kum from latin canis=dog
144. canyon: Snake river kanyon is deeper than the grand kanyon
carbon...see karbon
145. Cash
see also... koin
cash registers in stores dont hav slot tu hold 2$ bill or 50-sent koin
reesun=top brass at big retaelers (such as Walmart) insist on this.
em R fraed klerks will make more mistakes with more chois.
this is wi yu almost never see a 2$ bill or a 50-sent koin.
US guvt hav plenty av both...will giv yu if yu no weer tu ask.
146. Chaen Truks kan hav chaens that drag along the hiwae. Tu bleed off
statik lektrik that mite bild up & make a spark. Spark mite
set gas tank on fire.
***** chaen store...first=A&P, 1842.
147. Chaer Ben Franklin invented the rokking chaer
Queen Mary 2 had tu replaes all dek chaers kauz overwate Amerikans broke em
Chaerman: in 1700's, most folk kood oenlee afford 1 chaer in the hous.
Oenlee portant persun get tu sit in the chaer...the chaerman.
148. Charlee Chapman: kame in 3rd in Charlee Chapman look-alike kontest
149. Charity USA giv 175 Bilyun $/yeer tu charity
fascinating facts
150. Charlee Chaplin...kame in 3rd in a charlee chaplin lookalike kontest
151. cheep save
Amerikan Aer in 1987 save 40,000$/yeer...no olive in the salad
different soers klaem United saved 500,000$/yeer bi kut the olive
now aerlines drop most food from plaen, maby hav
peenuts in plastik yu kant kut open (yu kant hav nife or skrudriver).
biggest saving...get "meels" from kontrakters with cheep laber
sum aerlines offer a box lunch for 4$
152. chees wi is chees yello? kauz yu want it that wae
cheezmakers die it the koler that sell best.
wot bout oleo? kauz butter was yello wen em first tried tu sell oleo.
153. cheet 85% av men hu die av hart-attak duing sex...woman was not his wife
154. cheeta fastest land anamal for short distans...70 MPH
155. chek chekking akkount at bank
Aug 2009: US hav 130 milyun cheking akkounts
It kost bout 15$ on the internet tu get all detaels bout sumwon hu just died
This is favorit soers for krooks hu wanna make fake id...yuze name av ded man.
2004: 400,000 chekking akkounts was opened in the name av a ded persun.
wemen rite 80% av cheks in USA
156. chicken kan fli 11 sekonds
***** chicken trivia: US eet 80 pounds chicken/persun-yeer
Theer is bout 1 chicken/persun werldwide
Wi du chickens & terkee hav wite & dark meet? Other anamals dont.
All birds hav 2 tipes av musel...red & wite...red=dark meet.
Dark meet is for long yuse such as fli long distans.
Wite meet is for short spert, such as take off.
birds that migrate long distans R almost all dark meet.
Chicken & Terkee R ground birds...almost never fli.
Thus oenlee hav dark meet in legs & bak.
Farmer hu raes chikens for the meet: Chickens make 1.25 tons av
"liter" per 1000 chiks bi time birds big nuff tu butcher.
157. Chineez if chineez walked intu the see in kolumn 10 wide, it never end
babees born tu em in line > all hu walk intu the see
Old chineez paentings never sho woman's foot...not even paenting av nude.
**** Chineez faktree werkers...the modern "middel klass" in China.
standard: werk 60 hrs/week, pae=20$...33 sents/our
Thats in the top 10% av werkers in Red China
But Chineez gotta be kareful, in Steel werks, the brass
oft beet werkers tu deth.
158. choke Amerikans choke on tootpiks, more than NE other thang
100/yeer choke on bawl point pen
159. choklut ("chocolate" in krat speek)
see also... kandee (candy)
***** choklut: kum from the cacao tree=small tropikal shrub nativ tu sentral Amerika
50% av choklut now gro in Afrika
chokklut is a mix av produkts based on cocoa from the cacao been (seed).
blooms & fruit gro from maen branches, not neer tip like most fruit & nuts
30-50 seeds in eech pod
12 seeds make 1 owns av dark choklut
***** choklut histree
Azteks, Mayas, & Tolteks made a drink from ground koko beens.
1519: Montezuma giv sum tu Kortes. Him send sum tu Spaen.
1828: Holland: C J van Houten made choklut butter from the powder.
1847: England: kombine chok butter with chok liquer tu form a solid
dezined for yu tu eet the solid thang...kandee.
????: Swiz: Daniel Peter added milk powder...milk choklut.
gotta hav "choklut liquor". Most hav cocoa butter, vanilla, & shugar init.
milk choklut hav milk & all the abuv. Yuzyually bout 10% liquor.
***** choklut modern
Hershee sold first milk-choklut bar in 1900 (start kumpanee in 1894)
kisses...the masheen kum down & plop out choklut.
werkers sed it look like it kiss the konvaeer belt.
Hershee yuze 600,000,000 pounds milk/yeer
Shugar is first on list av ingreedeeants, so must be more than that
(kumpanee wont sae how much)
***** choklut tipes, komponents, parts
choklut bar: "pure" choklut is bout 60% cacao
guvt sae "dark choklut" gotta be 35+% "chocolate liquor"
cacao is bitter & the eetabel tipe is fermented so yu kan take it.
the darker the choklut, the hier % cacao.
choklut liquor...the "hart" av cacao beens (the seeds). Roest em,
then ground intu powder. Heet powder tu rite temperature &
it bekum liquid..."liquor".
Liquor is bout 53% cocoa butter (fat).
cocoa=roested seeds av cacao plant, fermented, then ground intu powder.
cocoa butter=the fat from the cacao been (seed).
cocoa powder=wotz left after yu take out the fat, also called the "solids".
Dark choklut dont hav milk init.
Dutch proses=treed cocoa with alkaline tu redues asidity.
Semisweet choklut is bout 50% shugar.
Unsweetened choklut kum from the hole been. All other tipes first
separate it intu the "liquor" & the solids, then rekombine em with other stuf.
White choklut dont hav "choklut liquor". made from cocoa butter insted.
***** choklut: nutrishun
Kalorees...milk choklut =167 big kalorees/owns
dark choklut =154
cacao & unsweetened choklut=145
semi sweet & bakers choklut=145
koko powder =128
Kafeen: 20 mg per owns ("caffeine" in krat speek)
choklut hav kemikal=anadamide that giv yu that plesant feel
***** choklut melt temperature is just belo body temp=it melt in yer mouth
koklut bar hav averaej av 3 insekt haers
***** choklut munee: US spend 13 bilyun $/yeer on choklut
US eet 12 pounds/(persun-yeer)...bout 3.5 bilyun pounds/yeer
or 100 pounds/sekond
Swiz eet most choklut/persun
fascinating facts
160. chop suee is not Chineez.
1896: Chinaman in US invented it tu US taest & dezined tu look
like Chineez. Sins then, China hav a vershun av it much different
not neer as much meet init.
161. chopstiks China invented em bout 2000bc
China yuze 45 bilyun/yeer=25 milyun trees
162. Christmas
***** christ trivia: USA hav 140 towns that hav christmas in theer name
1890: US predident deklare Christmas is a holiday=dae off
England hav many obsoleet laws that sae yu kant du thangs on
Christmass, if kops enfoersed such laws, wood hafta arrest
evreewon. But that wood be nonlegal: kops kant werk on Christmas.
In fakt, nowon kan werk on Christmas, not even preests.
If yu eet on Christmass, max=3 thangs.
Law 1551 (yeer 1551) sae evreewon gotta gotu cherch on Christmas.
& yu gotta walk tu/from (kant ride).
1625: not legal tu watch sports.
1831: yu kant kill a "game anamal" on Christmas.
163. Christmass kards...started in England around 1840. At first, was hand delivered.
Bak then, a letter kost 1 penee tu go NE-weer in England.
kommershal made kards sold in stores started in 1860 in England, 1870 in USA.
1 web site sed tipikal Amerikan famlee "exchange 60 kards" eech Christmas.
USA Krist-Kard sales=3.5 bilyun...bout 12/persun.
Christmas Lites: Martin Luther started put lites on christmas tree (kandels bak then)
ornaments go bak tu Rome. Em had a "saturnalia"
& hanged stuff on trees in Desember.
USA: 86% du all christmas shopping in Desember
30% pae with kredit kard
70% dont save up NE munee ahed for Christmas
Christmas shop: 30% yuze kredit kard for all christmas shopping
70% dont save up 1 dime ahed av time
86% du all Xmas shopping in Desember
164. circus werd "circus" kum from latin for serkel.
In Amerika "circus" is a kumpany that bring anamals
& folks that du stunts, with klowns & akrobats.
Started in 1763...Filip Astlee had trik hoersbak riders.
gotta stae in small area, so hoers go round in serkel.
him found eezeer tu traen hoers tu go in serkel if make a ring with a border.
later, big circus advertise it is "3-ring circus"=3 akts go on at same time.
*** warning: in Brit "circus"=traffik serkel or small park
165. city (sitee in nonkrat)
In 1790, 5% av USA liv in sitees
********* sitees, werld, ordered bi number folks in sitee area (inklude berbs)
1. Tokyo, Japan 34,450,000
2. Mexiko Sitee 18,066,000
3. Nu York Sitee 17,845,000
4. San Paulo, Brazil 17,099,000
5. Bombae, India 16,086,000
6. Shanghi, China 13,243,000
7. Kalkutta, India 13,058,000
8. Good Aer, Argentina 11,847,000
9. LA, Kalif 11,814,000
10. Osaka, Japan 11,165,000
***** United sitees...yeer 2000
1. Nu York Sitee 8,084,316
2. LA 3,798,931
3. Shekago, Ill 2,886,251
4. Huestun, Tex 2,009,831
5. Filly, Penn 1,492,231
6. Fenix, Ara 1,371,960
7. San Diego, Kal 1,259,532
8. Dallas, Tex 1,211,467
9. San Antone,Tex 1,119,222
10. Detroit, Mich 925,051
********* most expensiv sitees tu liv in, werld, March 2008
1. Oslo, Norwae
2. Kopenhagen, Denmark
3. London, England
4. Dublin, Ireland
5. Zurich, Switzerland
6. Stokholm, Sweden
7. Helsinki, Finland
8. Geneva, Switz
9. Paris, Frans
10. Vienna, Austria
********* cheep big werld sitees tu visit, March 2008
1. Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
2. Buenos Aires, Arjentina
3. Mumbai (Afrika)
4. Delhi, India
5. Jakarta, Indoneshya
6. Lima, Peru
7. Beijing, Red China
8. Shanghi, Red China
9. Nairobi, Kenya (Afrika)
10. Kiev, Ukraen (Eest Yerrop)
***** USA metro areas 2000 1990
1. Nu-York & around 21,199,865 19,549,649
2. LA-OranJ kountee 16,373,645 14,531,529
3. Shekago, Ill 9,157,540 8,239,820
4. Wash-Baltimore 7,608,070 6,727,050
5. San Fran, Kalif 7,039,362 6,253,311
6. Fillee, Penn 6,188,463 5,892,937
7. Boston, Mass 5,819,100 5,455,403
8. Detroit, Mish 5,456,428 5,187,171
9. Dallas-Ft Werth 5,221,801 4,037,282
10. Huestun-Galveston 4,669,571 3,731,131
11. Atlanta, Jorjya 4,112,198 2,959,950
12. Miami, Flor 3,876,380 3,192,582
13. Seattle, Wash 3,554,760 2,970,328
14. Fenix, Arazona 3,251,876 2,238,480
15. Minneapolis, Minn 2,968,806 2,538,834
16. Cleveland, Ohio 2,945,831 2,859,644
17. San Diego, Kalif 2,813,833 2,498,016
18. St. Luis, Mazera 2,603,607 2,492,525
19. Denver-Bolder, Kolo 2,581,506 1,980,140
20. San Juan, PR 2,450,292 2,270,808
***** USA: all metro areas
yeer number folks % av US pop
1970 139,480,000 68.6%
1980 169,431,000 74.8
1990 198,407,000 79.8
1998 216,478,000 80.1
***** USA sitees with expensiv houses...meen hous value=1,000,000$+
Montecito, Kalif
Hillsboro, Kalif
Palm Beech, Flor
Tiburon, Kalif
Sarasota, Flor
Atherton, Kalik
Beverlee Hills
Malibu, Kalif
Woodside, Kalif
Kingspoint, Nu York
Aspen, Kolo
Los Altos Hills, Kalif
** Cheepest houses
Danville, Ill 64,000$
Odessa Tex 65,830$
Brownsville 69,290$
Wako Tex 76,297$
Pine Bluff Ark 76,848$
** oldest meen aej av folks hu liv theer
Laguna Woods, Kalif 78.0
Senchury Village, Flor 77.7
Kings Pint, Flor 77.7
Rossmoor, Maryland 76.9
Krestwood Vil, NJ 75.8
Sun Senter, Flor 75.0
Sun Sitee, Arazona 75.0
Sun Sitee West, Arazona 73.2
** yungest houses...meen aej av houses
Las Flores, Kalif 2.4 yeers
Laguna, Kalif 2.8
Villages, Flor 3.8
Superior, Kolo 4.1
Wyndham, Virjinya 4.5
** fast gro sitees...2000 tu 2005
num folks gro rate
Chandler, Ara 234,936 33.0%
Hendersun, Nev 232,146 32.4
Rawlee No Karol 341,530 23.7
Chula Vista, Kalif 210,497 21.3
Bakersfeeld, Kalif 295,536 19.6
Laredo, Tex 208,754 18.2
Stokton Kalif 286,926 17.7
Fort Werth, Tex 624,067 16.7
Orlando Flor 213,223 14.7
Las Vegas, Nev 545,147 13.9
Riverside Kalif 290,086 13.7
Charlot, No Karol 610,949 13.0
Reno Nev 203,550 12.8
Plano Tex 250,096 12.6
Sakramento Kalif 456,441 12.1
Mesa Ara 442,780 11.7
Skottsdale Ara 226,013 11.5
Fenix Ara 1,461,575 10.6
** Kountees num folks % gro from 2000 tu 2005
Los Angeles 9,935,475 4.4%
Kook (Shekago) 5,303,683 -1.4
Harris (hueston) 3,693,050 8.6
Maricopa (Fenix) 3,635,528 18.3
Oranj (neer LA) 2,988,072 5.0
San Diego 2,933,462 4.3
Kings (Nu York) 2,486,235 0.8
Dade (Miami) 2,376,014 5.4
Dallas 2,305,454 3.9
Queens (NY sitee) 2,241,600 0.5
** Kountee with small numbers av yu-all
luving Texas 62
Kalawao Hawaii 111
King Texas 307
Authur Nebr 378
166. copyrite (kopyrite in nonkrat)
Number kopyrites registered with US guvt
yeer number
1901 92,351
1905 113,374
1910 109,074
1915 115,193
1920 126,562
1925 165,848
1930 172,792
1935 142,031
1940 176,997
1945 178,848
1950 210,564
1955 224,732
1960 243,926
1965 293,617
1970 316,466
167. craeons crayola hav 120+ kolers
crayola is French for oil-chalk
invent: Edwin Binney & Harold Smith. sold first box in 1903.
werld now make 5 bilyun kraeons/yeer
168. croissant=French for cresent. Em stold it from Austria.
1683: after defeet the Terks that seeged Vienna for a yeer,
Austria win the war. Pole jenral Kulyeziski invent the
thang tu selebrate the win. Kalled it kipfel. Poles
helped Austria in that war. Shaped like the cresent on the
Terk flag. Spozed tu meen: eet this thang yu eet up
the Terks. Bout 100 yrs later, Marie Antoinet from Vienna
wed the French king & bring kipfels tu Frans.
169. Currier & Ives made 7,000 different piks, sold for 10 sents.
fascinating facts
170. dae averaej dae for adults
sleep 8.6 hrs
leesyuer 5.1
werk 3.7
houswerk 1.8
other 4.8
adults with kids hav 4.0 hrs leesyuer
yu with a job...men werk 8 hrs/dae, wemen 7.1
Fridae kum from nors "Frigga"=god av luv, klouds, ski, wifes.
***** dae: Mars dae=24 ours 37 Minuts (sideral dae)
171. daelite save time...Ben Franklin invented this idea (1784).
Him had sum good ideas, but this is bad.
note...in Yerrop em kall this "summer time". Em smart nuff
tu see yu dont save nuthan.
Federal guvt foers us intu "daelite save time" evree yeer (spring).
Guvt klaem we save munee & enerjee this wae
theer basik idea is we wont tern on the lites in the morn if the sun is up.
& supposidlee in the evening will hav lites on 1 hr less.
This is 100% krap. Evreewon tern on the lites wen em get up.
dont matter if sun is up or not.
wen was the last time yu shaved in the morn without tern on the lite?
yu yuzed sunlite that kum in the small windo thru the kloesed kertins.
Wot? yu dont hav a windo in yer bathroom? better komplaen tu kongres.
How bout kook & eet brakefast bi sunlite? Reed morn paper bi sunlite?
Du yu watch TV less just kauz yu got up 1 hr erleeer?
Biz...wen yu get tu the offis, yu tern on the lites (sun up or not)
**
argument 2...theer will be less "viktums" av krime.
guvt thank=yu will be out in the dark 1 hr less eech dae & thus
less likely tu be krime viktum.
Du guvt reelee thank kriminals kare wot time it is?
Wot bout the kids hu gotta gotu skuel in the dark in March & April?
**
argument 3...yer driv tu/from werk will be more in daelite
& thus less akseedents.
This mite make sum sens if the time chaenj matched sunup, but it dont.
We now gotu "saving" time in erly March wen dae is shorter than nite.
Yu will drive tu werk more in the dark than if we was still on regular time.
apparentlee guvt krats thank evreewon gotu werk like em...sho up at 11 am,
just in time for an erlee lunch brake.
172. date tipe 1=kalander
kalander based on bc & ad started bout 500ad...Monk Dionysius Exigus.
173 date tipe 2=date sumwon
date, internet...10-20 men for evree woman
av men hu sent messages tu wemen, 50% never got even 1 respons
av wemen hu got messages, 80% never responed tu NE av em
fascinating facts
174. dazeez ("diseases" in krat speek)
dazeez is the biggest killer in US...2.3 milyun/yeer
biggest killers: 1. hart problems
2. kanser "malignant neoplasm" in krat speek
2 maen tipes...infekshus & noninfekshus
80% av infekshus R spred bi yer hand
dazeez deths in USA per yeer:
hart 700,000
flu 36,000
bird flu 0
mad kow 0
meezels 1
10,000/yeer in US die from dazeez em katch from food em eet
estimated 70% kauzed bi poor sanatashun in food prep
CDC sae 1.5 milyun/yeer in US katch an infekshus dazeez
sins 52 milyun kids get a kold eech yeer, I assume CDC dont kount that
**** number adults with a dazeez ("persons 18+ yeers old")in 2003
total 213,042,000
Joints 57,242,000
Arthritis 45,793,000
ulsers 14,456,000
Diabetes 14,012,000
Kidnee 3,017,000
Liver 2,511,000
********* United States...number kases dokters report tu guvt, per 100,000 folks
yeer Diptheria Malaria meezels small pox strep Syfilis Tuberku Tyfoid
losis
1912 139.0 310 30.8 138.2 xxx 81.8
1920 139.0 173.0 480.5 95.9 151.6 145.3 xxx 33.8
1930 54.1 80.0 340.8 39.7 144.5 185.4 101.5 22.1
1940 11.8 59.2 220.7 2.1 125.9 359.7 78.0 7.4
1950 3.8 1.4 210.1 0 42.8 154.2 80.4 1.6
1960 0.5 0 245.4 0 175.8 68.0 30.8 0.5
1970 0.2 1.5 23.2 0 239.2 43.8 18.3 0.2
175. debit kard
most debit kard fraud kum kauz yu luze yer wallet with kard init.
2nd=theef get a bank statement that sho yer numbers & kodes
2006: yuzed 26 bilyun times/yeer
Yu spend averaej 7,800$/yeer on debit kard
$ yu get add up tu 1 trilyun $
60% av trans is < 25$
Merchants want yu tu tipe in a PIN number bekauz it kost the store less
kredit kard kumpanees want yu tu sine yer name so em get fee from evree trans.
176. debt
**** debt trivia: US guvt spend 338 bilyun $/yeer on its debt (Okt 2009)
******* US houshold debt:
1952: famlee debt=36% av inkum
1985: 69%
2007: 132%
Mar 2009: 124%
******* US debt
Mar 09: US guvt fyucher (unfunded) SS paements: 52 TRILYUN $
US guvt baelouts: 9.7 Trilyun $
US bank & biz debt: 17 Tril
US houshold debt 13.8 tril
15 Mar 09: USA fed guvt debt=11 tril, up 2 trilyun in 1 yeer
27 Des 08: USA debt=53 Trilyun $...175,154$/persun
up 4.3 Trilyun $ from 2007
US guvt debt=10,578,639,151,691$ (10.6 trilyun $) (13 Nov 2008)
& gro 3.8 bilyun $/dae
US konsumer debt=2.57 Trilyun $ (down 7.94 bilyun $ in Nov 2008)
down 3.7% in Nov 2008 (biggest drop in 55 yeers)
12 Des 2008: total Houshold komsumer debt=14 Trilyun $
per houshold debt=13,914.22$
konsume debt=hous+kar+bank+store+ kredit kards
morgage & home equity debt=46,115$/persun
Home equity =1.12 trilyun $
23 Nov 08: Federal Reserv sae US hav 52 Trilyun $ debt (Guvt+Biz+folks)
Unfunded guvt promises=60 Trilyun $ (SS & medikare)
9 Okt 08: US debt=330% av GDP (konsumer+guvt debt)
***** average US famlee debt (2007, from Federal Rezerv)
morgage 84,911$
skuel lones 14,414
home equity lone= 10,062
kredit kard 8,565
total 117,952$
debt past
Mae 2008: USA total debt=2.57 trilyun $...up 7.8 bilyun $ over April.
Sep 2007: total USA debt=342% av GDP (Wall Street Jernal)
*** trivia: 40% av Amerikan famlees spend > inkun
****** United States morgage debt outstanding (sum av how much yu oe on houses)
yeer bilyun $
1890 2.292
1900 2.917
1910 4.426
1920 9.120
1930 27.649
1940 23.810
1950 54.362
1960 161.636
1970 338.198
1990 3,807.
2000 6,812.
2004 10,507.
***** bad debt: quarter 4 2007: big US banks rote off 90 bilyun $ av bad debts
most=bad home lones (morgages)
2009, Q2: Kredit kards rite off 9.6% av debt
1985: 2%
1995: 2.5%
2000: 4.2%
2006: 4.0%
***** debt...Konsumer debt ("Consumer credit outstanding" in krat speek)
US folks oe $ tu the banks (www.federalreserve.gov)
1980 0.3550 trilyun $
2001 1.7000
2002 1.9741
2003 2.0780
2004 2.1913
2005 2.2848
2006 2.3888
2007 2.4478 (2.55 in Des 2007)
***** debt trivia: BBB got 18,000 komplaents bout debt kollekters in 2007
********* "public debt" (guvt debt) as % av GNP...2006, estimate
1. Lebanon 209.0
2. Japan 176.2
6. Italy 107.8
7. Grees 104.6
9. Singapore 100.6
12. Israel 89.0
25. Jermany 66.8
29. Frans 64.7
30. United States 64.7
31. Turkee 64.7
32. Austria 63.0
33. Filippines 61.6
48. Brazil 50.0
61. England 42.2
110. United Arab Emir 9.0
112. Rushya 8.0
120. Hong Kong 1.0
********* external debt=dollars oe tu sumwon/sumthang in other kuntree
werld 44,610 bilyun $
1. United States 10,040
2. England 8,280
3. Jermany 3,904
4. Frans 3,461
5. Italy 1,957
6. Netherlands 1,899
7. Spaen 1,591
8. Japan 1,547
9. Ireland 1,392
10. Switzerland 1,077
177. ded ("deth", "dead" or "death" in krat speek)
***** ded straenj: US: 13/yeer killed wen vend masheen fall over on sumwon.
***** ded number die
estimated 60 bilyun humans died (sins bout 100,000 BC)
United States, number die
yeer num ded
1950 1,452,000
1960 1,712,000
1970 1,921,000
1980 1,990,000
1985 2,098,000
1990 2,148,000
1995 2,312,000
2000 2,403,000
2004 2,397,615...www.cdc.gov/nchs=National Senter for Helth Stats
***** ded deth rate
2004: USA deth rate=0.816%
projekted life span=77.9 yeers for nuborn
maen kauz... 1. hart 652,486 ded
2. kanser 553,888 "malignant neoplasms" in krat speek
werld deth rate...260,000/dae
***** ded ************** x kill more than y ************
US: wot anamal kill most? deer=130/yeer from yu run kar intu deer.
kokonut fall on hed kill more (werld wide) than sharks
kokonut kill 150/yeer
litening kill 3 times as many as sharks
Suiside kill 2 times as many as murders
fall outta bed kill 10 times number killed bi litening
thunderstorm: raen kill 2 times as many as litening
bee & wasp sting kill 50% more than litening
shampane kork kill more than spider bite
donkee kill more than aerplane krashes
400,000 teens/yeer tri suidide. 7,000 sukseed
***** ded United States...kauz av ded ("fatalities" in krat speek)
deth kauz (2004) dazeez how many %
1. hart (atak) 652,486 27.2%
2. kanser 553,888 23.1 "malignant neoplasms"
3. braen (stroke) 150,074 6.3
4. lungs (bronchitis) 121,987 5.1
5. akseedent 112,012 4.7 "unintentional injurees"
6. diabeetes 73,138 3.1
7. alzheimer (senile) 65,965 2.8
8. flu & numoenya 59,664 2.5 "pneumonia"
9. kidnee 42,480 1.8 "nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, & nephrosis"
10. "system infekshun" 33,373 1.4 "septicemia"
11. suiside (kill self) 32,439 1.4 "intentional self-harm"
12. liver 27,013 1.1 "cirrhosis"
13. hypertenshun 23,076 1.0 (hi blood preshuer)
14. Parkinson dazeez 17,989 0.8
15. murder 17,357 0.7 "homicide" in krat
16. all other 414,674 17.3
deth rate aej die rate (2004)
1-4 0.038%
5-14 0.022%
15-24 0.090%
25-44 0.1778%
45-64 0.708%
65+ 5.07 %
old folk...maen kauz...aej 65-75
number die
hart problems 156,187 35.4%
Kanser 150,131 34.0%
lungs, breeth 31,157 7.1%
diabetes 16,674 3.8%
flu/numoenya 7,189 1.6%
alzheimer 3,431 0.8%
deth rate...% av (number folks) hu die in 1 yeer
yeer % die
1900 1.72%
1910 1.47
1920 1.30
1930 1.13
1940 1.08
1950 0.96
1960 0.95
1970 0.95
1980 0.88
1990 0.86
2000 0.85
** ded as a doornael or doornob. Vareeus soerses klaem old door hardware
had a nokker or sum such & it had a part kalled a nael or nob.
& maby if yu nok the nokker 2 hard, yu brake it so then it is ded.
hard tu beleev NE av this.
178. default: yer late with monthly paement on a lone ("delinquency" rate in krat speek)
see also...forkloes
**** default trivia: 9 states defaulted on theer debts in the 1840's
default kan be morgage (home lone), kredit kard, student lone...
quarter 3, 2007..."overall deliquent"=2.44% in July-Sep 2007
(Amerikan Bankers Association)=30+ daes late
kredit kards: 4.18% R behind (down from 4.39% in quarter 2)
Home equity lones ...2.28% (2 yeer hi)
Home line-av-kredit: 0.84% (10 yeer hi)
"indirekt" kar lone: 2.86% (16 yr hi)
June 2008: Kredit kard default rate=4.51% (4.40 % yeer ago)
179. deep (deep underwater)
deepest spot in see...Mariana Trench=35,827 feet deep
in Pasifik Oeshun, neer Mariana Ielands (11-22 N, 142-36E)
fascinating facts
180. dentist 40% in Amerika has never ben tu a dentist
181. des-ert Many anamals in desert dont drink water: get it from the food.
Most stae underground in the dae, kum out at nite.
182. deth (kapital punishment)...guvt exekute sum kriminals
many rael ginst US for hav the "deth penalty"
but nowon komplaen bout Red China that kill 8,000/yeer
for seereeus krimes such as kritize guvt big-wigs.
183. develop USA "develop" 9 square miles/dae=bild sumthang onit
Warning..."desert" (des-ert) is very dri land, such as Sahara
dezert=grate food, eet-treet...kake, kookee, choklut, ies-kreem, kandy
184. de-zert (dessert in krat speek)
werld's favorit dezert=ies kreem (ice kreem in krat speek)
ieskreem=milk-fat, shugar, aer+flaver & kold nuff.
favorit favorit=vanilla
185. diamond is hardest natural thang on erth & 1 av the most valuabel
is karbon (same as grafite & koel), chaenjed bi hi pressure & hi heet
spesifik gravity=3.52.
eech karbon aton bond with 4 other karbon atoms=xtra strong.
diamond is very hard, but not brittel. shine It & it look good.
durabel...dont rust or rot or flake off or fall apart. not brittel.
Yu kant kut or sand it with normal tools.
will bern if heet em tu 1400 deg F in aer or oxygen.
pure diamond is kleer...no koler. Small impurity kolor most diamonds.
80% av natural diamonds R NOT jem quality...industree yuze em.
soers...most kum from South Afrika, then Rushya, Austraelya.
em kum from old volkanoes.
good diamond mine get 1 karot av diamonds per 23 tons av dirt & rok
sinthetik=man-made...small & not jem-quality. Yuzed bi industree.
man make 4 times as much industrial diamonds as R mined.
1. karat=wate=0.2 grams. This impli how big the diamond is. "point"=0.01 karat.
bigger diamonds kost more on exponenshal skale.
0.1 karat mite kost 10$, 1 karat=1000$, 10 karat=100,000$
biggest diamond=Cullinan (star av Afrika)=3106 karats.
1997..100 karat diamond sold for 16,548,750$
2. kolor...most natural diamonds hav slite yello koler, kauzed bi nitrogen
many kolers kan be. strong blue is very rare & that diamond kost more.
3. klarity=the lak av flaws. Less flaws=kost more.
4. kut is the shape...flat, perl, emerald, square, oval,...
most natual diamonds look like 2 piramids joined at the base
186. diaper disposabel diaper take bout 500 yeers tu dekae
US yuze 18 bilyun/yeer...get em at the sitee dump
disposabel 5 times more likelee tu kauz diaper rash than kotten
1 site klaem 1 baby yuze 3000 diapers/yeer
187. diareea (running shits)
diareea is sekond tu kolds at keep yu from gotu werk or skuel
1/4 av (werkers+shuel kids)stae home sumtime eech yeer kaus av the shits
188. die tipe 1=not alive
wen yu die, ie site go first, heer last (unless yer def B4 that)
Die bankrupt: wedding bands not part av the estate, so
krediters kant take it.
see also...ded
die tipe 2=die yer haer...40% av US wemen die theer haer
189. diet folks bi 50 bilyun $/yeer av diet (luze wate) stuf
20 bilyun is for shugar & fat "substitutes"
first diet drink was "no-kal beverage"...1952
1959: first diet koke
fascinating facts
190. dikshunary
US...even kollej grads dont yuze 99% av werds in std dikshunary during normal talk
"journalists" klaem em hav 20,000 werd vokabulary=more than NE-1 els.
dokter =15,000
USA averaej=10,000
skilled werker (not kolleej grad)=6,000 werds
*** sum sites on web klaem theer R 1 milyun English werds.
a "kolleej" dikshunary hav bout 200,000 werds.
(Thus, kolleej grads lern 0.5% av the werds init)
The Oxford English dikshunary hav bout 500,000 werds.
but it inklude obsoleet & "archaik" werds.
*** Noah Webster took 36 yeers tu rite his dikshunary
191. dime modern US dime=91.67% kopper, 8.33% nikel
wate=2.268 grams=0.005 pounds...200 dimes=1 pound
diameter=0.705 inch, 1.35mm thik (0.053 inch)
192. dimpel Wot kauz dimpel? Musels konnek skin tu a bone tu hold it in plaes.
If musel is 2 tite, it pull in small area=a dimpel.
If yer body was perfekt, yu woodnt hav dimpels.
193. dinosaur: ruled the erth for 150 milyun yeers (215 tu 65 milyun yrs ago)
Name=latin for "Terribel Lizard" or "Thunder Lizard"
dinos R reptiles, lae aegs, walk on legs, liv on land.
was the biggest anamals up til then. But theer was many small dinos 2.
2 tipes..."bird hip" & "lizard hip"
bird hip ...2 legs (stand, walk, run on bak 2 legs)
lizard hip...4 legs
dinos walked up rite...off the ground, with legs under em
other reptiles sprawled with legs that kum out side, then nee tern down
Dinos was land anamals. Nun fli, nun liv in water
At same time theer was other reptiles that did fli & others in the sees
most dinos had a braen bout the size av a walnut (2 owns)
Tyrannosaurus Rex...the epitamee av dinos in many minds
The biggest, meenest killing masheen ever.
Triseratops good exampel av plant eeting dino (4 legs).
Had big horns & very big bone tu protekt hed & nek
horns abuv ies=3 ft long
plant eeters needed strong defens tu survive wen meet-eeters tri tu eet him
Stegosaurus had plates in 2 roes on top from hed tu tael, then spikes at end av tael.
Diplodocus=longest land anamal...90ft, 1/3=nek & 1/3=tael.
***** dinosaur die out ("extinctshun event" in krat speek)
All dinos died out at same time bout 65 milyun yeers ago.
This was long a big mistree that intreeg sientists.
Many other reptiles also died at the same time: fliers & see anamals.
About 60% av species on erth died out in very short time.
(look like zero time tu geologist that gage times long ago).
sum reptiles lived thru it...alligaters, turtels, krokadiles
note...snakes & lizards kame later.
Geologists that dig fossils outta the ground kall it the K-T event
(kretaeshus-Tersiary). A kleer & very thin laer mark it:
dinos belo, no dinos abuv...so thin, look like it lasted 0 yeers.
sientists now beleev a big meteor (bout 6 miles kross) hit erth
This thro so much dust intu the aer, it blok the sun & werld tern kold.
The kold kill many anamals. Maby so dark most plants died (1-3 yeers???).
Theer is meteor impakt krater in Yukutan, Mexiko=most likely kauz.
Volkanos...Theer was big lava flo in India about the same
time (63-67 mil yrs ago). Put lotta gunk in the aer.
even more than the meteor. This gunk hav a lotta sulfur.
Sulfur mix with water=sulferik asid. Latest ges:
2 tugether was 2 much & killed off so many species.
birds & mammals started in the erlee part av the aej av the dinos
sientists thank birds branched off from an erlee tipe av dino
about 150 milyun yeers ago (middel av aej av dinos)..."Archaeopteryx"
erlee bird had fethers, but many reptile thangs like teeth & a long tael.
mammals started bout same time as dinoes...separate line
reptiles...theer was big "see serpents" in the see with names like "Ichthyosaurs"
***** dino myths
Did yu see the muvees weer primativ man fite off T rex hu tri tu eet him?
Dinos died out milyuns av yeers b4 primativ man
Did yu see King Kong fite T Rex? King Kong is a myth.
all em big anamals in the muzuem lived at the same time (rong).
Not all big anamals was dinos...reptiles in see got very big 2.
Vareeus dino tipes died out long b4 other tipes apeered
T Rek was 1 av the latest dino's. Him kame after the biggest dinos died out.
Biggest dinos peeked midwae thru the dino aej, then died out long B4 T Rex.
sum folks thank mammals apeered after dinos. Rong, em lived at same time.
erlee mammals lived thruout the dino time span...as small runts.
nuther thot...mammals killed off the dinos. Fawls.
Meteor killed the dinos.
erlee sientists thot dinos was slo & sluggish. Modern
sientists sae "no wae hozae"
Yu see pik av big fliing reptile & thank it is a dino. rong.
Pterosaurs=fliing reptiles...not dinos. Lived at same time as dinos.
***** dino periods
sientists divide dino aej into 3 periods (Triassik, Jurassik, Kretaeshus)
1. Triassik...dinos separate from other reptiles neer end
av Triassik. All R small.then. Most dino's died out.
Replased bi nu tipes.
2. Jurassik...many kall this the "age av dinos".
this was the time av the biggest dinos...em eet plants (pine trees)
Had the most variety, most tipes (speeses in krat speek)
Brontosaurus=big plant eeter=bigest dino ever
Sientists chaenjed its name tu "Apatosaurus" deliberat tu konfuze evreewon.
4-legged, plant eeter, tiny braen, small hed, long nek, long tael
body=big buldj in the middel
90 ft long, 20 ft hi, 35 tons
we thank it kood reech leefs 50 ft up in pine trees.
1 tipe had its nose on top av the hed. This led erlee sientists
to thank it lived in water or swamp. Modern siens sae "not so".
maen land plants=ferns & pines.
theer was a mass die-out av dinos at end av Jurassik.
3. Kretaeshus...not as many dino speesees.
left over dinos speshalized.
T Rex terrarized the kretaeshus werld.
***** dino warm blooded?
Erlee sientists thot dinos kold blooded like all reptiles tudae.
Later, others klaem em warm blooded like mammals & birds.
Big fite over it. Not setteled. Dont no hu rite.
***** plants during aej av dinos.
In erlee & mid dino period, maen plants was ferns & pines.
Grass & flowers started in the middel av the Kretaeshus=neer end av dinos.
fascinating facts
194. dirt "erthen" in krat speek
In old daes, the floor was dirt. Oenlee rich folks had sumthang els.
This leed tu "dirt poor". Bak then most was. Tudae, oenlee the poorest.
The rich had slate floors. In winter it get slippery (frost), so
em put "thresh" (straw) on it. Keep adding thresh all winter.
Get so much, it leek out wen door open. So add a threshhold tu
keep it in.
195. dish dishwasher yuze 10 gallons av water per wash
196 disk jokkee...Variety mag invented the term in 1937...bout radio announser
hu stae up all nite "riding" the disks av fono rekords.
197 diskuver Amerika: Yu heer many klaems that sumwon els diskuver Amerika
B4 Krist Kolumbus.
1 man did: around 1000 ad, Lief Eriksson (Viking) founded a
kolony on koest av Nufoundland ("Vinland").
All sorts av ethnik grueps (Irish, japs, Chineez) make wild
klaems em found Amerika. Bunch av hogwash.
First Yerropeon tu set foot in wot in now USA: Pons de Leon
Him gotu Florida (him name it that kauz it was eester then).
198. disnee Walt Disnee was afraed av mouses
Wi du Mikee Mous hav 4 fingers? (1 thumb+3 fingers)
eezeer tu draw. For first 40 yeers, evreethang was drawed bi hand,
frame bi frame. Detael is harder, fingers is most detaeled.
All animals (Minee, Pluto, ets) was short a finger. But not Sno Wite.
199. divors ("divorced" in krat speek)
trivia:57% av divorsed sae munee is the reesun
divors rate =0.37%/(persun-yeer) (2004)
(get Wed rate=0.75%)
number divorsed % av adults
1970 4.3 milyun 3%
1994 17.4 9%
fascinating facts
200. dna Been hav more DNA than humans
DNA...see jeens
201. dog 58 milyun dogs in USA, 400 milyun on erth
Nu York Sitee hav bout 1 milyun strae dogs & 500,000 kats
estimated 100 milyun (dogs+kats) in USA
make 12,500 puppees/our
1/3 av US housholds hav a dog
US spend 11 bilyun $/yeer on pet food= 4 times as much as for baby food
medium dog kost 6,400$ over 11 yeers
***** dog wi is dog nose wet? dog lik it
nose print id dog like fingerprint for humans
dog dont swet. Theer R glands that help keep nose wet
but not swet glands. Dog tung du gooder job.
dog dont hav appendix
dog kan smell stuff 40,000 times gooder than humans
best iesite...Graehound
** dog & pony sho...originally a small serkus...no lions & no elefant
later appli tu NE performans that disapoint
now appli tu NE "presentashun" that dont impress.
202. dokter ("physicians" in krat speek)
number dokters in United States
yeer num dok meen pae
1950 205,000
1960 274,833
1970 348,328
1980 467,700
1985 552,700 112,200
1990 615,400 164,300
1995 720,300 195,500
2000 813,800
2004 884,974 (dept av kommers)...31 Des 2004
**** Visits tu dokters (dont kount hospital or emerjensee room)
2004 910,857,000...bout 3/persun
203. dolfin=mammal that liv in water, mostlee the see
breeth aer like all mammals...blohole on top av hed
sleep with 1 ie open.
bout 30 speeses
Killer wale is a dolfin & the fastest...34 MPH
tael fin is horizontal, so gotta wave it up/down tu push
self thru water.
most dolfins yuze ultrasound kliks tu find thangs (like bats)
dolfins eet fish & other see anamals
204. dollar (dollar bill, paper munee)
***** dollar trivia: it kost 6-7 sents tu make eech dollar bill
8-9 sents tu make 1 koin
1 dollar bill last 22 months
***** dollar $ symbol started with D on top av S
Sum klaen the werd "dollar" kum from Roman "taler"
Others sae it kum from saxon "daler".
The werd "dollar" was kommon in English kolonees from bout 1760
& then applied tu the Spaen koin...kommon in the kolonees.
8 Aug 1786, kongress made "dollar" the ofishal werd for US munee.
**** dollar bill: stak 1 milyun dollar bills... 361 ft hi & wae 1 ton
100 milyun penees=246 tons (1 milyun $)...2.03$/pound av penees
**** 2$ bill superstitushun klaem it unlukky
Jefferson on 2$ bill
Wi dont yu ever see a 2$ bill? Merchants dont like em & insist
kash register must NOT hav a plaes tu put em. Kumpany bras
thank klerks will make more mistakes if em hav more chois.
3$ bill...yes, theer was 1 at 1 time. No more.
205. donkee kan see all 4 av its feet at 1 time
donkees kill more than plane krashes [from web, me dont no if it is true]
206. dont kall list... (www.donotcall.gov)
FTC get 3 milyun komplaents/yeer from folks on the dont-kall list
hu get unwanted kalls from salesmen-krooks.
207. donut ("doughnut" in krat speek)
Started in Holland (Dutch) bout 1550.
donut hole: 1847, Hanson Gregory from Main...tu get uniform kooked.
in WW 1, Amerikan "do-boys" in Frans got donuts from volunteer gruep.
1920: first masheen tu make donuts...Adolf Levit
US eet bout 10 bilyun donuts/yeer
***** kalorees, from Dunkin Donuts:
glazed=180, choklut-frosted=200
plaen Bagel=360
Kroissant =330, with cheez=450
***** Krispee Kreem:
shugar donut =200
glazed sinamon =210
sinamon roll 260
choklut brownee =290
glazed+kreem fill=340
208. draft "conscription" in Brit-krat
US yuze draft in wars tu bild army, started in 1863 (Sivil war)
209. Drakula story bout a vampire.
1897 Bram Stoker in England invent the tale.
fascinating facts
210. dredj US dredj 300 milyun kubik yards/yeer just tu keep
25,000 miles av navigaetabel waterwaes open.
211. dreems average=1460/yeer
yu remember dreems better if...1. wake up slo
2. wake up rite after the dreem
212. dress Mattel make more dresses than NE other kumpanee (Barbee dresses)
213. dri sell=kommon battery: is not dri. It got name kauz is replaesed
wet sells. Wet sells was glass av liquid asid with metal
lektrodes in the liquid. Kar battery is a wet sell.
The round thangs yu put in flashlite R dri sells.
It hav a karbon silender down the middel & a asid paest
from theer tu the metal walls.
214. drink US drink 186 quarts koke/(persun-yeer)=46.5 gal
149 sitee water 37.2 gal
96 botteled water 24
215. drive
Yu gotta hav drive lisens tu bi liquer, but if yu drink it, yu kant drive.
US: men drive 62% av total miles (# men & wemen drivers is almost equal)
wi du English drive on left side av roed? (evreewon els drive on rite side)
sum argue englishmen wanted rite hand with sord redee wen em
meet sumwon on the rode...lotta bandits running lues.
In Amerika...In 1792 Pennsylvania made law that wagons had tu be on rite side.
The wagon man walked on left side or rode on hoers on left side.
this was tu leev rite hand free tu hold the wip.
wen meet wagon kumming yer wae, yu go rite so yu kan see
how kloes yu R tu other wagon.
216. drout long, hard dri spell
sum resent drouts in United States
yeer weer ded kost, bil $
1995 Summer Okla-Texas 9 4
1998 Summer Okla-Texas 16 6
1999 Summer Eest koest 40 1
2000 Summer Southeest 256 4
2002 Summer 30 states 43 10
217. drug
US spended 275 bilyun $ on preskribe drugs in 2006
most "frequently prescribed in 'physicians' offices" (bi dokters)
1. antidepressants 81,185,000 per yeer
2. NSAID 73,737,000
"nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs"...aspirin & super-aspirin
3. anti-asthmatik 69,507,000 or anti-bronchodilators
[dont blame me...me didnt invent thees werds]
4. anti-"hypertenshun" 69,113,000 i.e. hi blood presshuer
5. hyper lipidemia 63,996,000 "lipid"=fat
6. antihistamines 58,163,000 tri tu kleer nose
7. for stumak asid 56,906,000
*** preskribe drugs yu get at drug store
yeer number spend
bilyun bilyun $
1995 2.125 72.2
2000 2.865 145.6
2004 3.274 221.9 averaej kost=68$...(222/3.274)
2006 275
218. drunk 1.5 milyun/yeer get tikket for drunk driving in United States
219. duel Paraguay: legal tu duel if both R blood doners.
fascinating facts
220. duk ("duck" in krat speek)
Donald Duk is banned in Finland kauz him dont weer pants
DD alwaes weer a towel wen kum outta shower.
221. dumb ideas latest from hi tek...
1. text messaging lite bulb.
Wen lite bulb bern out, it send yu a message.
av koers, yu gotta tern on puter & find the mesage.
Or du yu wanna get it on yer sell fone at werk?
kant waet tu rush home tu tri tu find out wich lite it is????
2. Fridj will keep enventory. B4 yu kum home from werk, kall it
tell it wot yu wanna eet for supper, & it tell yu wot
yu need tu pik up at food store on the wae home.
Just thank...yu oenlee waest 1 hr sending messages bak & forth tu yer fridj.
** dumb
du yu remember the predikshuns in the 1950's that bi 1980 we wood hav
1. vois aktivated doors & windoes
2. hous will greet yu wen yu get home & giv yu yer favorit {kookee, drink}
3. room lites wood go on/off wen we kum in/go out (no lite switch)
** dumb bilding fashuns, bathrooms
latest "in-thang" is large windoes in bathroom, yuzyually floor tu seeling.
variashun is enormous windoe along the long side av the bathtub.
look out & wot du yu see? Same windo in hous next door.
but dont spekt tu see nude plaeboy senterfold.
(nut next door look same as yu=uglee)
or maby a 4-lane hiwae with bumper-tu-bumper traffik.
222. duns ("dunce" in super krat)
followers av Jon Duns Skotus around 1250.
later, kritiks sae his folloers R nitpikkers.
Even later meening chaenjed tu dum ("dumb" in krat)
& krats chaenj the spelling tu "dunce".
223. dust most dust in yer hous is ded skin flakes
224. dutch Pennsylvania Dutch R Jerman
225. Edisun, Tom...never went tu skuel (self tot)
bekame def at 12 wen traen man grabbed him bi eers tu pull him ontu the traen.
sum av his invents:
3-wires tu karry elektrons in the hous
artifishal rubber made from goldenrod
automatik telegraf (insted a persun hit kee)
diktate masheen
elektrik lite
elektrik raelroed kar
fonograf & several tipes av rekords
fone transmitter that yuze karbon
lite sokket & lite switch
mineograf
muvee kamra ("motion-picture kamera" in krat speek)
oer separater
stok tikker (his vershun, not the original)
storaej battery (several kinds)
vakyuem tube
vote kounter (elektrik)
wax paper
******* Edisun & the lektrik lite bulb:
Many men invented lites B4 Edisun. Him mostly took other folks
stuff & make it praktikal or figger out wae tu make it eezee.
******* Edisun & Tesla: Tesla was poor Serb but a Jeenyus. Him kum tu
Amerika & get job=werk for edisun. Edisun steel all his ideas.
Tesla quit aft 1 yeer. Him invent AC elektrik wile Edisun
yuze DC. Big fite. AC win. Its wot us yuze tudae.
In the 1880's & 1890's, Tesla rote ideas bout thangs that
much later bekame radio, gided missels, radar.
226. eester ("easter" in krat speek)
Anglo-saxons had a spring karival & theer name bekame "eester" in Englis
Em offered rabbits & kolered aegs tu the gods...bekame eester bunny & aegs
It was at bout same time as Kathlok cherch observ resurrekted Krist.
Missionarees from Rome kombined the 2.
In 325 ad, the kounsil av Nikaea (Emperer Konstanteen)
make rules bout wen eester is:
Eester=first sundae on or after first Fridae on or after first full moon
on or after start av spring.
227. eet yu eet 30 tons av food in 1 lifetime=6 elefants
& drink 13,000 gallons.
see also...food
228. Egypt yuzed tu yuze rok pilloes
in glory daes bout 1000bc, averaej life span was 30 yeers
tudae...oenlee 3.5% av land is yuzed, rest is desert
229. Eiffel Tower is 6 inches taller on hot summer dae than kold winter
(15 cm)
fascinating facts
230. eklips ("eclipse" in krat speek)
***** max time av full eklips=7 min 58 sekonds
Wen the moon get tween erth and the sun, it kan eklips the sun
thats fansee siens talk for hide the sun=kut off the lite=it get dark.
This kum bout bi yuneek geometry...apparent size av moon and sun the same.
Apparent size=how big em look=how big an angel tween left & rite sides.
Moon diameter=3,474 km & meen distans=384,403 km
so angel=3474/384403=0.090374 radians=0.517804 deg
Sun diameter=1,390,000 km & distans=149,597,870,660 meters
angel=0.09291576 rad=0.532368 deg
Kloes nuff, wen moon in rite spot, it hide the sun & astronomers kan
look at sun's atmospeer. Note that the moon is a tad small.
We no distans tu moon very akkurat kauz Apollo 11 left a reflekter
on the moon. Bounz lazer beem off it & get distans tu 10 digits.
But we dont get eklips evree month, kauz moon dont line up.
Moon orbit round erth not in same plaen as erth orbit round sun (Ekliptik).
Orbit planes angeled bi 5 deg 9 min. Thats pretty kloes, but
big nuff the moon yuzyually miss the sun.
Nuther variabel is moon orbit is elipse, so distans vary.
Max distans=406,720 km, min=356,371...vary bi 50,349 km=13%.
apparent moon size vary. Bigger moon="harvest moon"
231. ekonomee, werld
GNP or GDP=total $ value av all werk in 1 kuntree
see also...gross domestik produkt bi kuntree
Werld GDP (2007)=54 trilyun dollars (Internashunal Monetary Fund)
USA= 13.8 trilyun
Yerropeon Yuenyun=16.8 tril
Werld GDP (2006)=66 trilyun dollars; US GDP=15 tril
warning...numbers in this tabel dont match better soers
but this sho relativ prosperity av rich & poor kuntrees
kuntree GNP/persun GNP, trilyun $/yeer
USA 44$/persun 13.3
Swiz 39 0.41
Japan 38 5.0
Germany 27 2.9
England 26 2.3
Frans 26 2.2
Kanada 24 1.0
Italy 22 1.7
Taiwan 16 0.39
Mexiko 6 0.75
Brazil 4 0.64
Rushya 2 0.64
China 1 2.3
India 0.5 0.79
** ekonomee: dif soers: GNP/persun in 2005:
USA =42,000$/yeer
China= 1,700$/yeer
see also...Amerika ekonomy
** ekonomee: prosperity...GDP/persun, US=1.00
kuntrees as % av US gdp/persun
yeer=2003
Austria 0.798
Belgium 0.737
Denmark 0.802
England 0.745
Frans 0.732
Germany 0.710
Holland 0.742
Italy 0.712
Japan 0.732
kanada 0.844
Korea 0.522
Norwae 0.883
Sweden 0.776
***** ekonomee: pae
US...Total wages paed in 2005=5,352,118,704,000$
or 17,840 $/persun
***** ekonomee, US, gro rate:
2001-2006: US gro 2.5%/yeer, but 1.5% kame from folks hu
took munee outta the hous bi refinans & inkreez theer debt, & spend it.
40% av job gro was werkers hu bild houses.
232. eklips sun eklips...moon get tween sun & erth so moon shado hit surfus av erth.
max time av sun eklips=7 min 58 seks
233. elbo yu kant lik yer elbo (maby baby kan, but dont wanna)
234. elefant kant jump. But kan reer up & kum down hard...get outta the wae.
Big tusk=200 pounds.
Biggest land mammal: 10 ft tall, up tu 7.5 tons
2 tipes: Afrika & India. Afrika is bigger.
elefant hav 4 teeth
liv 70 yeers.
run 25 MPH, swim ok. eet 300 pounds/dae & drink 50 gallons av water.
hav big eers which em fan tu help kuel off.
***** ele: wite elefant=a trinklet yu bi & then dont want NE-more.
In Siam, wite elefant was sakred...yu had tu take kare av it but kant yuze it
legend sae the king giv wite elefant tu enemees, so the kost av take kare
av it oft bankrupt em. Thus, wite elefant=kost a lot & is werthless.
** 1860...Republikan party adopt elefant as simbel av theer party
235. elekt US dont elekt the president. Yu vote for "elekters" hu gotu
the "elektoral kollej" & vote for the president.
2 times, the man with most "popular" votes lost.
If the "lektoral kollej" kant vote >50% for 1 man, it gotu
the hous av representativs. The hous must chues 1 av the 3
with most LEKTOR votes. Eech state hav 1 vote. That meen the
representativs av eech state gotta deside on hu tu vote for.
This happened 2 times. If hous kant deside, it gotu the Senut.
Did this in 1837.
236. elektrik (see also...enerjee)
United States
houshold elektrik yuze ("residential service, dwelling units, or kustomer")
how much lektrons yu yuse & how much it kost...kilowatt-our/yeer-home
yeer kw-our sents/(kw-our)
1912 264 9.10
1920 339 7.45
1925 396 7.30
1930 547 6.03
1935 677 5.01
1940 952 3.84
1945 1,229 3.41
1950 1,845 2.88
1955 2,773 2.65
1960 3,854 2.47
1965 4,933 2.25
1970 7,066 2.10
********* elektrik output bi kuntree, 2004...bilyun kw-hrs
werld 17,400
1. United States 3,979
Yerropeon Yuenyun 2,997
2. Red china 2,500
3. Japan 996
4. Rushya 952.4
5. India 630.6
6. Kanada 573.0
7. Jermany 566.9
8. Frans 549.4
9. Brazil 546.0
10. England 363.2
237. elektrik, home stuff
Biggest elektrik yuzed in home/hous
1. fridj: old tipe=50$/yr, side-bi-side=65$
2. lites
3. klothes drier
TV: old crt, 32 inch=40$/yr for lektrons
nu 40 inch LCD =55$
elektrik ell put out 600 volts. It is blind...yuze lektrik tu find food.
238. elektronik...most modern audio/visual equipment yuze more lektrons wen off than wen on.
239. Elvis Preslee erned > 5 milyun $ in 2004 (The estate get the munee)
21 other ded selebs also erned > 5 Mil
fascinating facts
240. emael (e-mael)
USA: 2 trilyun emaels/yeer (2006) or 5.5 bilyun/dae
spam=junk emael=45% av emael
averaej yuzer get 2,200/yeer, after filters remuve 80-90%
FTC get 130,000 komplaents bout spam/dae
kost tu Biz tu delete spam=21.6 bilyun $/yeer (annually in krat speek)
241. emerjensee...110 milyun emerjensee room "visits" in 2003
20% kum bi ambulans (80% get theer bi self or sumwon drive em)
12% go intu the hospital
1/4 hu gotu emerjensee room is folks on preskribe drugs & did not take theer pills
averaej waet=3.2 ours
242. enerjee (energy in krat speek)
***** enerjee trivia: Lektrons yuzed bi TVs in US=output av 1 majer nuklear power plant
This is wen terned off (idel)
US yuze 23% av werld enerjee
***** enerjee
werld yuze 73.6 milyun oil barrels/dae
werld total enerjee yuze=bout 300 quad/yeer
wikipedia sae 2005 enerjee yuze=138.9 quad & 86.5%=bern hydrokarbons
1 quad=1000* trilyun BTU= 1 quadtrilyun BTU=10^15 BTU
1 quad=2.92997*10^12 kw-hr
2004: enerjee yuze, quads
1. USA 100.41
2. Red China 59.57
3. Rushya 30.06
4. Japan 22.62
5. India 15.42
6. Jermany 14.69
7. Kanada 13.60
8. Frans 11.25
9. England 10.04
2004: make enerjee ("jenerate" in krat speek)
1. USA 70.39
2. Red China 55.95
3. Rushya 51.69
4. Saudi Arabia 24.16
5. Kanada 18.62
6. Iran 12.05
7. England 11.06
8. Norwae 10.78
9. Australia 10.56
10. Mexiko 10.31
**
****** enerjee ****** energy stats, 1998 ********
USA enerjee...MAKE USE
Quad % Quad %
oil 13.2 18.1% 36.6 38.8 19 milyun ballel/dae
nat gas 19.5 26.7 21.8 23.2 21 trilyun kubik feet/yeer
coal 23.8 32.6 21.6 22.9 1 bilyun tons/yeer
nuclear 7.2 9.8 7.2 7.6 674 bil kw-hr/yeer
renu 6.7 9.2
hydro 3.4 4.7 3.6 3.8 344 bil kw-hr/yeer
other 2.6 3.6
tot 72.9
erth heet 0.3 0.3 76 bil kw-hr/yeer
biomass 3.0 3.2
solar 0.07
wind 0.04
****** enerjee ****** energy yuze ********
USA werld USA
oil 18.92 milyun barrels/dae 73.6 40%
gas 21.34 trilyun cf/yeer 82.2 23%
coal 1.04 bilyun tons/yeer 5.0 23%
USA yuze 33% av werld elektrik
********* US enerjee yuze bi sekters ***********
transportation 25.04 quads 27%
industry 35.43 quads 38%
home & biz 33.74 quads 36%
total 94.21 quads
**
****** enerjee...United States enerjee yuze histree (history in krat)
enerjee yuzed/yeer, quads=quadtrilyun BTU
yeer total oil nat gas koel nuke renu
1960 45.09 19.92 12.39 9.84 0 2.93
1970 67.84 29.52 21.79 12.26 0.24 4.08
1980 78.29 34.20 20.39 15.42 2.74 5.49
1990 84.67 33.55 19.73 19.17 6.10 6.13
2000 98.90 38.40 23.92 22.58 7.86 6.16
****** enerjee ****** nuclear energy ********
2000 output, mega watt-our (1000* kw-hr)
% av lektrik number reakters in 2005
USA 99,210 19.3% 104
Frans 63,363 78.5% 59
Japan 47,839 29.3% 56
Rushya 21,743 15.8% 31
Jermany 20,339 31.0% 17
So Korea 16,810 44.7% 20
Yukrane 13,107 48.5% 15
Kanada 12,600 14.6% 18
England 11,852 19.9% 23
**
Lithuania 69.6% 1
Slovakia 56.1% 6
Belgium 55.6% 7
Sweden 44.9% 10
Bulgaria 44.1% 4
Armenia 42.7% 1
Slovenia 42.4% 1
Hungary 37.2% 4
Finland 32.9% 4
Switzerland 32.1% 5
red China no data 2.0% 9
243. enerjee pries ("konsumer energy price" in krat speek)
or "retail price"
yeer krude oil kar gas deesel oil heet oil nat gas elektrik
$/barrel $/gal $/gal $/gal $/1000kube sent/KW-hr
1990 22.22 1.16 0.73 1.06 5.80 7.83
1995 17.23 1.15 0.56 0.87 6.06 8.40
2000 28.26 1.51 0.94 1.31 7.76 8.24
2004 36.97 1.88 1.24 xxxx 10.74 8.94
2008 120. 4.00 4.50 xxxx
244. England guvt...hous speeker kant speek
english language...see lingo
245. English bars (pubs in Brit)...wi such kolerful names?
in old daes, kommon folk koodnt reed or rite
so shops yuzed pitchers or simbels tu ID theer shop or Biz
Maby a pikchuer or a simple karving tu sho it. It had tu be simpel yet kleer.
246. equity... Old meening av "equity" is oen.
modern stok borkers invent equity=bi stok...yu oen a small frakshun
av the stok in 1 kumpany.
Hous equity: If yu bi a hous, the differens tween wot yu kan get bi
sell the hous & the $'s yu oe on the morgage=yer equity.
In last fyu yeers, hous prieses rise so fast & so hi, many
thot em R rich kauz the hous (on paper) is werth so much.
Many refinans the morgage tu borro ginst the hous tu get munee
in the hand tu spend. This kaused the big USA boom from
bout 2002 thru 2006. But now hous prieses go down. Bubbel burst.
Hard times ahed.
Now, with hous prieses down, many R "upside down"...negativ equity.
Many marjinal borroers oe more on the hous than it is werth.
Or rather more em kood get outta hour bi sell it, after expenses such
as 6% broker fee+bank kommission+guvt paperwerk.
247. epitaf: Ben Franklin rote his epitaf wen him was 22.
248. ern, ernings...USA
see also...pae
Rasheeo av big brass pae: hi paed tu averaej werker pae:
bigwig president
1965: 44 51
1968: 35 54
1973: 35 69
1989: 71 207
1992: 26 319
1999: 419 649
2000: 815
2002: 143 416
2005: 262 821
2007: 364 (CNN)
2009: 262 [nuzpaper]
2007: averaej "CEO" pae=10.4 milyun (Wall Street Jernal)
249. erth Erth is a rok ball=planet that go round the sun=prototipe av the "terrestrial" planets
is the most dens planet in solar sys: 5.5 times water
diameter=12,753 km at equater, 12,710 at pole
oblate speroid bout same as speer with diameter=7913.5 mile
but surfus area a littel less than a speer
***** erth area sq km sq mile
total 510,060,000 196,940,400
land 148,647,000 57,308,738 29.1%
sees 361,413,000 139,631,662 70.9%
part av land is kuvered with ies or water (lakes & rivers)
solid land=45,000,000 sq mile
if shared equal, eech persun get a square 450 ft on a side
but shrink kauz werld numbers gro all the time
but much land is desert with very fyu folks onit.
anartika dont hav NE permanent folks
Artik is 2 kold, so fyu folks theer
mountins R 2 ruff...no farm land, no plaes tu put towns
net result is most folks liv on 1/4 the land
mass=1.3166*10^25 pounds (0.5972*10^25 kg)=6.583*10^21 tons
***** erth orbit speed round sun (averaej speed):
distans from sun=1 AU=149,597,870,660 meters
distans around sun=2*pi*AU=939,951,141,500 meters
time=1 yeer=31,556,563 sekonds
averaej speed=939,951,141,500/31,556,563
=29,786.233 meter/sek (18.5083 mile/sekond)
=66,629.9 MPH
note: orbit is elipse, so distans from sun & orbit speed vary
oenlee planet not named after klassikal (Greek/Latin) god
sum klaem Pluto was named after Disnee kartoon character
big surfus plates muve bout same speed as yer fingernaels gro
rotate speed slo down bekauz av the tides
but dae length is defined fixed tu make thangs eezeeer for siens
so from time tu time, em thro in a leep sekond tu adjust the kloks
fascinating facts
250. erthquake 19 majer erthquakes/yeer...magnitde=7.0+
USGS see 12,000 quakes/yeer...sensativ equipment rekord small stuf
16 Des 1811: erthquake made Mississippi river flo bakward
***** erth kill: 23 Jan 1556, Shansi, China, killed 830,000
08 Oct 05..Kashmir erthquake kill 80,000=most ded in modern times
faemus...San Fran, Kalif 18 Apr 1906, 7.73, 503 ded
strongest in modern times=9.5 in China
251. erthworm Australia hav a 10 foot long erthworm
252. eskalater...in erlee daes, the rael went a littel faster than the steps
em thot this foers yu tu leen forward & thot that was safer.
nowadaes, steps & rael top spozed tu go same speed.
At 1 time, em put green lites tu shine neer floor in front av bottom step.
that went the wae av the dodo.
253. eskimos yuze fridj tu keep food from freezing
254. estate In middel aejes, in Yerrop, fuedal guvt run kuntrees
em sed 3 estates run the kuntree
1=Church, 2= nobils, 3=kommon folks
in England in the 1800's the "press" got strong nuff it bekame estate 4
event...see first time
255. exersize ("physical activity" in krat speek)
2003, United States: 46% av adults get the guvt-rekomended xersize
54% dont
24% dont du NE fizikal laber (xersize)("physically inactive" in krat speek)
256. exports
United States exports & imports
yeer exports imports
bilyun $
1805 0.134 0.144
1810 0.117 0.110
1815 0.081 0.096
1820 0.084 0.084
1825 0.112 0.106
1830 0.086 0.079
1835 0.132 0.166
1840 0.160 0.134
1845 0.135 0.138
**
1850 0.166 0.210
1855 0.303 0.325
1860 0.438 0.438
1865 0.279 0.343
1870 0.507 0.608
1875 0.623 0.722
1880 0.963 0.848
1885 0.830 0.818
1890 0.960 1.109
1895 0.888 1.015
**
1900 1.082 1.048
1905 1.859 1.561
1910 2.160 2.114
1915 3.948 2.200
1920 10.264 6.741
1925 6.348 5.261
1930 5.448 4.416
1935 3.265 3.137
1940 5.355 3.636
1945 16.273 10.232
**
1950 13.893 12.001
1955 19.948 17.795
1960 27.490 23.383
1965 39.408 32.310
1970 62.870 59.307
257. fake 94% av Beatels autografs R fake
258. faktree (Industree) ("factory" in krat speek)
number faktrees & faktree werkers in United States
dont kount klerks, bosses, others
yeer num faktree num assemblee werkers
1849 123,025 957,000
1859 140,433 1,311,000
1869 252,148 2,054,000
1879 252,148 2,733,000
1889 353,864 4,129,000
redefine "faktree" tu xklude home industre
1899 204,754 4,502,000
1909 264,810 6,262,000
1919 270,231 8,465,000
1929 206,663 8,370,000
1935 167,916 7,204,000
1939 173,802 7,808,000
1950 260,000 11,779,000
1958 299,017 11,681,000
1963 306,617 12,232,000
1967 305,680 13,955,000
1970 13,528,000
259. falls (water fall)...tallest =Angel falls in Venequela...3,212 ft hi
Angel ...Venezuela, 3,212 ft hi
Iguazu ...border tween Argentina & Brazil, 269 ft hi [sum spell it Iquacu]
several falls, maen fall is U-shape:490 ft bi 2300 ft
max flo rate=6.5 milyun liter/sekond
***** fall Niagara falls formed bout 10,000 yeers ago.
hav muved 10 miles upstreem bi underkut the base weer the water hit.
averaej flo rate=5.5 milyun liter/sekond
Kanada side (Hoersshu falls)=2,200 ft long
Amerikan side=1,075 ft long
Oloupena ...on Molokai, hawaii 2,953 ft hi
Viktoria ...on Zambezi River, Afrika
5700 ft wide & 350 ft hi
averaej flo rate=1.1 milyun liter/sekond
max =9.1 milyun liter/sekond (144 milyun gal/minut)
Yosemite ...2,425 ft hi=tallest named fall in US
[sum soerses klaem unnamed fall in Washington is taller, but nowon hav gaged it]
fascinating facts
260. famlee (family in krat speek)
United States, US sensus, yeer=2000
71,787,347 famlees
97,840,000 housholds
115,356,000 "konsumer units" (2003)
guvt define famlee at wedded kupel + kin hu liv with em
it exklude singels hu liv alone & grueps that R not kin
husband+wife (& maby kids 2) ...55% av famlees
no husbad (or man-av-the hous)...21%
1 persun 26%
averaej 2.59 persons/famlee
aeveraej US famlee muve 11 times (in lifetime)
****** famlee number & size bi yeer houshold size=2.57 persuns
---- Famlee ---- ---- houshold ----
yeer number size number size
1980 59,550,000 3.29 80,776,000 2.76
1990 66,090,000 3.17 93,347,000 2.63
2000 72,025,000 3.17 104,705,000 2.62
2004 76,217,000 3.13 112,000,000 2.57
261. fan sports fan...fan is short for fanatik.
262. farm
see also...krops
***** farm trivia: 11% av land on erth is good nuff tu farm
10% is kuvered bi ies all the time
30% is des-ert
yeer number farms size size
averaej total akers
1940 6,350,000 174
1950 5,650,000 213
1960 5,960,000 297
1970 2,950,000 374 1,102,769,000
1974 2,314,000 440 1,017,000,000
1980 2,440,000 426
1982 2,241,000 440 987,000,000
1987 2,088,000 462 964,000,000
1990 2,150,000 460
1992 1,925,000 491 946,000,000
1997 2,216,000 431 955,000,000
2000 2,170,000 436
2002 2,129,000 441 938,000,000
2004 2,113,000 443 937,000,000
2005 2,100,000 444
**
****** farm, United States...number hu liv on farms
yeer num folks num farms land area farm value
akers bilyun $
1850 1,449,000 293,561,000 3.967
1860 2,044,000 407,213,000 7.980
1870 2,660,000 407,735,000 9.412
1880 21,973,000 4,009,000 536,082,000 12.404
1890 24,771,000 4,564,000 623,219,000 16.439
1900 29,875,000 5,740,000 841,202,000 20.365
1910 32,077,000 6,366,000 881,431,000 40.959
1920 31,974,000 6,454,000 958,677,000 78.386
1930 30,529,000 6,295,000 990,112,000 57.689
1940 30,547,000 6,102,000 1,065,114,000 57.689
1950 23,048,000 5,388,000 1,161,420,000 101.117
1960 15,635,000 3,962,000 1,176,946,000 167.564
1970 9,712,000 2,954,000 1,102,769,000 265.744
****** farm, % av USA folks hu liv on farms
yeer
1880 43.8%
1890 42.3
1900 41.9
1910 34.9
1920 30.1
1930 24.9
1940 23.2
1950 15.3
1960 8.7
1970 4.8
**
2007 farmers=1/105 in US...bout 2 milyun or 0.67% av populashun
***** United States Farm produktivity...num folks in US per farm werker
yeer eeters tot man-hrs, bilyun
1940 10.7 20.5
1950 15.5 15.1
1960 25.8 9.8
1970 47.1 6.5
**
***** Farm, USA...subsadees
2007: farm subsadize =189$/persun in US
US guvt farm subsidees= 19.977 bilyun $ (2005)
farm inkum = 1.9 bilyun $ (2005)
gross $ in =211.647
***** Farm, United States, Inkum
inkum=bilyun $
yeer total farm other per persun
inkum inkum inkum $
1934 5.374 3.188 2.186 167
1935 7.730 5.423 2.307 241
1940 7.597 4.838 2.759 249
1945 17.212 12.807 4.405 705
1950 20.366 14.103 6.263 884
1955 17.579 11.382 6.197 922
1960 18.679 11.526 7.153 1,195
1965 23.591 13.546 10.045 1,908
1970 28.193 15.019 13.174 2,832
**
Iowa has most farm land...24 milyun akers
Larjest krops=korn, peenuts, tubak, wheet, soybeens (bi wate)
note...more tubak than weet
food graens R grass...barlee, korn, oets, weet, ries, shugar kane
**
it take 100 pounds av water tu make 1 pound av food.
Korn yuze 10-20 tons av water per bushel av korn.
** USA luze 3.5 bilyun tons av dirt/yeer from eroshun.
263. farm food gro (werld) 1998...milyun metrik tons/yeer
graens:..1,872.4
korn 600.8
weet 587.0
ries 400.7
soybeens 154.7
veggees 628.7
fruit 444.7
oil 85.7
rapeseed 42.5
nuts 6.4
**
red meet 137.2
poultry 57.8
milk 387.2
264. fast, fastest
dolfin Dalls porpois & killer wales du 56 km/hr (short spert)
kan ride ship wave at 37 MPH
fish saelfish=68 MPH, mako shark=60 MPH
mollusk giant squid=35ft, 2 tons
spin nuetron star=1,122 times/sekond
265. fat US guvt sae if yer body mass index (BMI) >25, yer fat (overwate in krat speek)
>30, yer "obees" (obesity in krat speek)
av folks >=20 yrs old, 140 milyun R fat & 66 milyun "obees"
***** fat man= kode name av a-bomb 2 dropped on nagasaki,Japan, 9 Aug 1945
made with plutonium (not uranium)
5 ft diameter, 10 ft long. Look like ternip.
wate=9 tons.
266. father 70% av bad kriminals in prisun did not hav father at home wen him gro up
1998: 2.1 milyun singel fathers in USA
most kollekt fone kalls R on father's dae
Emperer av Morokko, Moulay Ismael (1627-1727) had 548 suns & 340 dotters.
267. fawls quote In books, muvees, TV
"elementary mi der Watson"...Sherlok Homes books dont hav this NE-weer
"Plae it agin Sam" no such werds in the muvee "Casablanka"
"Beem me up Skotty" no such werds on Star Trek (TV or muvees)
yuyually sae "enerjize"
************* federal guvt=US guvt=United States guvt **********************
268. fed US guvt=feds or federal
fed debt as av 07 Jan 07=8.6 trilyun $
**** yeer debt per persun % av GDP
1791 75,463,000$ 19.21$/persun
**
1800 82,976,000 15.63
1810 53,173,000 7.35
1820 91,016,000 9.44
1830 48,565,000 3,66
1840 3,573,000 0.21
1850 63,453,000 2.74
1860 64,844,000 2.06
1870 2,436,453,000 61.06$
1880 2,090,909,000 41.60$
1890 1,122,397,000 17.80$
**
1900 1,200,000,000 16.60
1910 1,146,940,000 12.41
1920 35.300.432,000 338.23
1930 16,185,310,000 131,51
1940 42,967,531,000 325,51
1950 257,357,352,000 1,696.67
1960 286,330,761,000 1,584.70
1970 370,918,707,000 1,811.12
**** yeer debt per persun % av GDP
**
1990 3,233,313,451,777 13,000 55.9%
1995 4,974,000,000,000 18,930 67.2%
1999 5,656,270,901,615 18,930 61.5%
**
2000 5,674,178,209,887 20,162 57.8%
2001 5,807,463,412,200 57.3%
2002 6,228,235,965,597 59.5%
2003 6,783,231,062,743 61.8%
2004 7,379,052,696,330 62.9%
2005 7,932,709,661,723 27,354 63.5%
2006 8,506,973,899,215 28,357 (30 Sep 06)
2007 8,679,818,692,174 (24 Jan 07)
269. fed spend ("recipts" & "expenditures" in krat speek)
the budjet is the munee kongres appropriate=make it legal for president tu spend
***** fed budjet deficit eficit:
"budjet deficit"...guvt spend more than it take in
Averaej deficit=2.5% av GDP over 30 yeers thru FY 2008
FY 2009 projeked deficit=18%
fy="fiskal yeer"...1 October (nn-1) thru 30 Sep nn
budjet is oft "admended" during the yeer, so projekted dont = reel
kongress oft hav "supplemental appropriations" tu spend more
** soshal sekerity=SS...independent av budjet...hav its taxes & rules
kongres dont appropreate SS spend, it mandate the spend
*********** fed guvt spend (fiskal yeer) ************
guvt yeer...1790 thru 1842=kalender yeer (1 Jan thru 31 Des)
1844-1939 (30 June tu 30 June)
fed spend yeer inkum (tax take) outgo (spend) profit/loss % av GDP
1789 (3yrs) 4,419,000$ 4,269,000 +150,000$
1792 3,670,000 5,080,000 -1,410,000
1795 6,115,000 7,540,000 -1,425,000
1800 10,849,000 10,786,000 63,000
1810 9,384,000 8,157,000 1,228,000
1820 17,881,000 17,261,000 - 380,000
1830 24,844,000 15,143,000 9,701,000
1840 19,480,000 24,318,000 -4,837,000
1850 43,603,000 39,543,000 4,060,000
1860 56,065,000 63,131,000 -7,066,000
1865 333,715,000 1,297,555,000 -963,841,000
1870 411,255,000 309,654,000 101,602,000 1.36%
1880 333,527,000 267,643,000 65,884,000 0.59%
1890 403,081,000 318,041,000 85,040,000 0.65%
**
yeer inkum (tax take) outgo (spend) profit/loss % av GDP
1900 567,241,000 520,861,000 46,380,000 0.46%
1910 675,512,000 693,617,000 - 18,105,000 0.051%
1920 6,648,898,000 6,357,677,000 291,222,000 0.318%
1930 4,057,884,000 3,320,211,000 737,673,000 0.816%
1939 4,979,066,000 8,841,224,000 -3,862,158,000 3.874%
*********** fed guvt spend
fed spend yeer inkum (tax take) outgo (spend) profit/loss % av GDP
1940 6,900,000,000 9,600,000,000 -2,700,000,000 1.1%
1950 39,443,000,000 42,562,000,000 -3,119,000,000 1.1%
1970 195,600,000,000 0.3%
1980 590,900,000,000 0.3%
1990 1,031,308,000,000 1,251,776,000,000 -220,469,000,000 3.9%
1995 1,351,500,000,000 1,515,412,000,000 -163,912,000,000
1998 1,721,798,000,000 1,652,611,000,000 + 69,187,000,000
1999 1,827,454,000,000 1,703,040,000,000 +124,414,000,000
**
fed spend yeer inkum (tax take) outgo (spend) profit/loss % av GDP
2000 2,025,200,000,000 1,789,100,000,000 236,400,000,000 2.4%
2001 1,991,200,000,000 1,863,900,000,000 127,400,000,000
2002 1,851,000,000,000 2,011,000,000,000 -157,800,000 000
2003 1,782,300,000,000 2,159,900,000,000 -377,600,000 000
2004 1,880,100,000,000 2,292,200,000,000 -412,100,000,000 3.6%
2005 2,182,000,000,000 2,500,000,000,000 -318,000,000,000 2.6%
from "the executive offis av the president av the United States" (27 Jan 07)
2006 2,263 bilyun 2,464 bilyun -201,000,000,000
2007 2,398 2,576 -178,000,000,000
budjet propose for fy=2007
2007 2.4 trilyun $ 2.8 trilyun $ -400,000,000,000
**** fed spend...% av GDP
1940 13.0% av GDP
1970 19.3
1980 21.6
1990 21.8
1995 20.7
2000 18.4
2005 26
**** fed spend...brakedown
********* fiskal yer 2007, fed guvt spend, bi tipe
inkum=2.4 trilyun $, spend= 2.8 tril, defisit=354 Bilyun=2.6% av GNP
spend bilyun $
Soshal Sekeritee 586.1 20.9%
defens 548.8 19.6%
medikare 394.5 14.1%
welfare 367.0 13.1%
medikade 276.4 9.9%
interest on debt 243.7 8.7%
skuels 89.9
kars, traen, aer 76.9
vets 72.6
lawyers 43.5
natural resoers 33.1
state dept 32.5
farms 27.0
towns 26.8
siens & tek 25.0
jenral 20.1
enerjee 1.1
*********** welfare=SS+medikare+medikade+welfare=1.551 trilyun$=55.4% av spend
**** fed spend...surplus, predikt vs reel
In Jan 2001, guvt predikted spend, now see wot happened
yeer predikt budjet surplus reel result
2001 +281 bilyun $ +128 bil
2002 +313 -158
2003 +359 -359
2004 +397 -413
2005 +433 -319
2006 +505 -248
as av 11 July 2006, feds predikt fy 2007 defisit=296 bilyun $
fascinating facts
270. fee:
did yu retern lektronik devies tu store? (TV, DVD, ets)
most now charj a "restok fee" tu put it bak on the shelf
Web sites charj 10-20%.
**** hotel/motel fees...em add fees for evreethang under the sun & sum under the sink
2006: estimate: US kustomers pae 1.75 bilyun $ tu hotel/motel for "fees"
bags : sum charj 2$ tu store bags for a fyu ours
enerjee : surcharj for hi gas pries will kost yu even more...3-6$/dae
erlee/late: if yu chek in 2 erlee or leev 2 late...penaltee=50$ up tu pries av 1 dae.
fax : 1-5$/paej
kansel : if yu reserv room, many require 48-72 ours ahed tu kansel
if yu dont, kost yu pries like yu staed theer 1 dae.
maed : sum charj for "maed servis"...5-18$ tu chaenj the sheets.
minibar : 2.5$ for motel tu restok it (even if yu dont yuze it)
many hav sensers, so if yu take sumthang out, it charj yer bill for it
even if yu put it bak.
sum charj yu if yu open the door av the minifridj
pakaej : sumwon send yu a pakaej? 2-5$
resort fee: hiking trael?, golf?, tennis...yu pae a fee even if yu dont yuze em
room servis: kornflakes=7$ sum add a trae fee+ servis fee (2-5$)
watch out...most also add automatik tip av 15-25% tu yer bill
safe : safe in yer room=2$
tips : sum hotels add 5-10$/dae for tips & yu kant du NE-thang bout it
271. feer: Most folks hav nonrashunal feer av sum thangs & no feer av risky stuf.
1. USA: 8,000/yeer die from skin kanser. maen kauz=2 much sun.
but nowon is afraed av the sun.
2. Many R afraed av nuklear power plants, even tho in 50 yeers
oenlee 1 plant killed: Chernobyl, Ukrane in 1986...100 ded
& that was a Rushyun plant.
3. Wot anamal kill most humans in USA? alligater?, shark? beer? snake?
no...deer kill most...130/yeer in US die from run intu deer wile drive kar.
thats more than all killed bi all alligaters+sharks+beers+snakes+spiders+skorpions+wasps.
Humans R not good at evaluate the risk. Yu thank av risk bi how
vivid it stae in yer mind...how big a splash it made.
Thus a murder story in the nuz get our tenshun more than 40,000/yeer killed
in kar akseedents. 1 big plane krash leev bigger impreshun, even tho
fli is safer than go bi kar.
272. fens ("fence" in krat speek)
USA: border fens along border with Mexiko tu keep out wetbaks
2005: Guvt giv it hi priority=max speed ahed
2008: in last 3 yeers, guvt bild 331 miles...110/yeer
Mex border=1,993 miles. Thus, hav 1,662 miles tu go
At 110/yeer, need 15 more yeers av max tri
273. fertilizer...Planet erth farmers yuze 150 milyun tons/yeer av fertilizer
US make 2.5 milyun tons/yr av amoenya-nitrate fertilizer
274. fiasko is Italian for glas, jar, bottel, drink
in old daes, wen glas bloer goof, em yuze the result tu make kommon (cheep) drink glass
in time "fiasko" kum tu meen bad goof, big mistake
275. finans (financial in krat speek)
see also...retire
***** finans trivial: Jan 2000: stok market: Dow Jones=11,500
Des 2009: Dow Jones=10,000=down over last 10 yeers
tipikal US famlee hav theer "financial assets" (munee) split
retire akkount 32.0%
mutual funds 14.7%
cheking akkount 13.2% ("transaction accounts" in krat)
"managed assets" 8.0%
Bonds 5.3%
CD 3.7% (certificat av deposit)
life inshuer 3.0%
other 2.1%
Savings bonds 0.5%
financial stuff=35.7% av total assets
for most, the other 64%=equity in theer hous
(hous value - morgage balans)
276. finger fetus make fingerprints at 18 weeks (4.5 months)
finger nael...finger nael gro from root tu front in bout 5 months.
toenael take 10.
medikans spekulate fingernaels gro faster kauz em R yuzed more
=natural reakshun tu weer.
277. fire USA Hav 2 milyun wild fires/yeer
forest fire go faster uphill than downhill. Sparks rise on thermals.
a hous in USA katch fire evree 45 sekond
inshuer...half av munee inshurans kumpanees pae for fire is for arson.
Shekago...fire: 8 Oct 1871...lejund blame in on kow that belong tu
Mrs Katherine O'Leery. Rong. bout 200 die
fire in Iroquois theater (Shekago) kill 600, 30 Oct 1903
fire in kloeths faktree in Nu York Sity kill 146, 25 Mar 1911
number fires in USA
yeer number kost
2000 1,708,000 10.207 bilyun $
2003 1,584,000 12.367 bilyun $
************* fasanate...first time **********
278. first (histree, timeline)
***** first trivia: first toilet on TV: Leev it tu Beever
Herodotus (Greek) was first histreeun (485-430 bc)
1440 first muvabel tipe (printing press) in West
Jon Gutenberg, Germany. Yuzed Gothik=obsolete vershun av obselete eest Jerman
wood blok hold muvabel metal tipe tu make letters
1619 first elekted assemblee=Hous av Burgeses, Virjinya
first slaves in USA
1635 first publik skuel in US (Boston)
1636 first kolleej in US=Harvard (neer Boston)
** 1700 first
1704 first regular nuzpaper=Boston nuz
1716 first litehous in US...Boston
1731 first library meer mortals kan get intu, Filly, Ben Franklin started it
1752 first hospital, Filly
1773 first museum, Charleston, SK
1781 Bank av North Amerika=first sponsered bi US national guvt
1783 Montgolfier brothers...hot aer balloon, Frans
1784 first daelee nuzpaper in US...Filly
1790 first prisun in US=Filly
1797 parachute...Garnern, Paris Frans, 23 ft kanvas chute, jump from balloon
1798 first bank robbery in US...31 Aug 1798, Bank av Penn at Karpenter Hall
162,821$ gon (inside job)
** 1800 first
1801 lite...Humpree Davy send lektrons thru platnium strip tu make lite
1830 first steem raelroed in US=Baltimore & Ohio
1843 first printed Christmas Kard...publik bi it & mael it (or hand deliver)
1844 telegraf...line from Wash DC tu Baltimore
1852 dirigibel (balloon with strukshuer inside tu hold shape)
Gifford, Frans
elevater
1859 oil well, F Drake, in Penn
********* Sivil war firsts
aer rekon (baloons), inkum tax, first draft in USA
first trench war, flame throer, land mine, medal av oner,
raelrode artillery, repeeting rifel, steel ships,
modern-tipe sub, snorkel
TAPS (bugle for ded), mobil telegraf with army in the feeld
withholding tax
first president assinated
1862 ambulans the publik kan yuze
1876 fone...Alexander G Bell talked over wire tu Watson on 10 Mar
1885 skiskraper, Shekago
1886 Nu York State started a kompetishun for better wae tu kill
In 1889, em choze lektrik chaer made bi Harold P Brown
first lektrokushun=29 Mar 1889
1893 ferris weel
1895 first kar raes, Shekago. Winner=Frank Duryea, aver speed=7.5 MPH.
1897 subwae (Boston)
1898 Joshua Slokum sael alone around the werld
** 1900 first
1900 zeppelin=Jerman dirigibel...metal frame inside & hydrogen gas
1902 first muvee hous (theater), Los Angeles
fingerprint...first time maen evidens tu konvikt sumwon...London, England
1903 rite brothers fli aerplaen (17 Des 1903)...852 ft
first fli av heeveeer-than-aer masheen without kill pilot
kar trip kross US, NY tu San Fran...2 months, kost=8000$
1907 gas stashun, Seattel
1909 Bleriot fli from Frans tu England
baseball stadeeum
1914 aerplanes fite in war
first traffik lite for kars on publik roed, Kleevland, Ohio
1916 first bilyunaer...Jon D Rockafeller
1919 fli kross Atlantik...Kurtis fliing boet, 16-17 Mae
from Nu York tu Nufoundland, Azors, Lisbon
1919 nonstop kross the Atlantik, 15-16 June, Brit teem
from Nufoundland tu Ireland=1900 miles
1919 skedyueled passerjer fli, 24 Aug, London tu Paris
1920 aermael rout...Nu York tu San Fran
first radio stashun=27 Oct 1920
1923 fli nonstop kross Amerika, 2500 mile from NuYork tu San Diego, 27 hrs
1924 fli round werld, start & end=Seattel, take 175 daes, bout 27,550 miles
1927 solo fli kross Atlantik, Charles Lindberg, Nu York tu Paris
20-21 Mae, 3600 mile, 33.5 hrs
1929 Karl Spaatz staed up in aer 150 hrs (in an aerplane)
first rokket plane, Jermany
Zeppelin fli round werld in 20 daes
1933 first solo round the werld, Wiley Post, took 7 daes
1935 first park meter, Okla Sitee (invented in 1932 bi Karlton Magee)
1937 first helikoper, Jermany
1939 first jet plane, Jermany
1945 first atomik bomb ("nuclear devies" in krat speek)
first puter (komputer)
first puter bug...moth stuk in relae
1946 first bikini, 5 July 1946=publik see it
1947 first supersonik fli, Charles Yaeger, Bell x-1 rokket plane
1949 first nonstop fli round the werld, Aer Foers b-50, 23,452 mile, 27Feb-3 Mar (4 daes)
1950 first charj kard=Diner's kard (paper)...forrunner av kredit kards
1953 James Bond...book "Casino Royal" bi Lankaster Fleeming
first James Bond muvee=Dr No, 1962
1956 first hard drive tu go with puter (IBM)
1957 first jet round the werld...B52, 45 hrs (2 daes), 24,325 mile
first ICBM tests
first satellite (Sputnik 1) 4 Oct 1957
1977 first man tu fli on manpower alone,
Paul MacKreedy, plane="Gossamer Kondor"
23 Aug, Pasadena, Kalif
1980 first sun-powered fli
???? kupel in bed tugether in muvees or TV...Fred & wilma Flintstone
279. fish
how kan fish kum bak in a dri pond?
1. maby sum mud left...many tipes av small fish last months in the mud.
2. maby yu didnt look good...maby fish hide in weeds & skum.
3. sum tropikal fish lae aegs in lake bottom mud. lake then dri up.
aegs stae dormant til wet seesun put water in lake.
4. If a ditch go thru pond, wen raens kum & hav water in ditch,
fish kan swin in from elsweer.
Wi du fish eet werms? Most fish will eet NE-thang alive or half-alive
****** Wen du fish sleep?
we hav a problem folks...Webster define sleep as "kloes ies, rest, shut down braen, minimize muve"
Fish dont hav ielids, so kant kloes ies.
Fish in open water such as the sees (almost evreeweer) gotta be alert all the time
els sumthang mite eet it. Most such fish keep swimming all the time.
Fish neer koests & in rivers & lakes mae (or not) kum kloes tu wot look like sleep.
sum reef fish hide in holes in the reef at nite & it look like sleep.
but a disturbans in the water wake em.
fascinating facts
280. flag wot flag yu never take down? USA flag on moon.
Denmark was first tu make a nashunal flag
Betsy Ross: Evreewon thank Betsy Ross dezined & made first US flag.
RONG Hole story invented bi her grandsun on 4 Mar 1870.
Bi 1885, evreewon beleev this wild tale.
Kloest Betsy got was tu make sum navy flags in 1777.
281. flamingo more plastik flamingos in US than reel flams.
faktree that make plastik flamingos went bankrupt...dont make em NE-more
flamingo eet blue-green algae that tern pink in gut & make the bird pink.
if eet other stuff, bird not pink.
282. flate rate ("inflation" or "consumer price indexes" in krat speek)
yeer 1-yr flate start-tu-end
1980 13.5% 0.0%
1985 3.6 30.6%
1990 5.4 58.6%
1995 2.8 85.0
2000 3.4 109.1
2001 2.8 114.9
2002 1.6 118.3
2003 2.3 122.4
2004 2.7 128.0
2005 3.8 136.6
2006 3.3 144.5
2007 2.4 150.3%
283. flatware (silverware) wite hous hav 13,000 nife+spoon+fork
in 1600's England, the spoon was a just-introduesed noveltee
see also...fork
284. flaver most yuzed flavers...1=choklut, 2=vanilla, 3=banana
ies kreem flavers: 1=vanilla, 2=choklut, 3=strawberree
285. fli tipe 1=fli aerplane
***** fli: US...averaej av 61,000 R in aerplaens up in the ski (now)
1 web site sed a plaen will yuze less fuel at 30k ft than
at 25k kauz aer is thinner so drag is less.
bi this logik, best altitude=the moon...no aer & thus no drag, so dont need moter
reel reesun sumthang kan fli:
Lift gotta equal wate for it tu fli level (more tu klimb).
Drag=lift*(drag/lift) raeshio
Tu fli at konstant speed, thrust=drag. Engin gotta suppli thrust.
Thus engin fuel berned=drag* engin effishensee
Tu maximize raenj, yu wanna minimize (d/l)=maximize (lift/drag).
Many fakters go intu l/d, but aer density is not 1 av em.
biggest drag: shape av the body & how smooth the skin.
Fuel yuzed also depend on how effishent the engin is.
Most engins hav optimun altitude for max effishent.
Long distans aerlines tri tu fli hier the farther along the path.
For trans-oeshen fli, fuel kan be half the plane takeoff wate.
Em bern bout 80% av the fuel, so plane get liter (wae less) longer em stae up.
Thus, need less lift. Kan redues lift bi fli sloer or hier (or both).
Aerlines prefer tu fli hier as em bern off fuel
=tri keep speed almost konstant.
***** Fli round the werld
1924: 4 planes fli west from Seatel & take 175 daes tu fli
around the werld. Douglas biplanes.
1929: Graf Zeppelin (Aer ship) fli round werld in 21 daes.
July 1933: Wiley Post fli round werld in 7 daes, solo.
Feb 1949 first nonstop round the werld=Aer Foers B-50 (updated b-29)
refueled 4 times up theer in the ski.
Took 94 ours (3 daes 22 ours). Averaej speed=250 MPH.
Des 1986: nonstop, no refuel: Rutan & Yeager from Edwards Kalif.
take 9 daes, averaej speed=116 MPH.
286. fli tipe 2=hous fli, fli squerrel, ets.
fliing snake is a poor glider.
fliing squerrel is sumwon better.
Hous fli liv 2 weeks. Kan spred germs 15 miles.
287. flood Jonstown, Penn...31 Mae 1889: 2,200 ded (Dam broke)
sum resent floods in United States
yeer wen weer ded kost, bil $
1996 Feb Oregon 187 1
1996 Des-Jan west koest 36 2
1997 Apr-Mae Dakotas-Minn 11 2
1998 Okt-Nov Texas 55 1
288. flour Wi is flour bleeched wite? Its yer fault...yu insist onit.
bleech kill sum nutrients so Fed law require flour makers tu
fortifi it=enrich it=add bak vitamins & iron.
289. flower ("angiosperms" in krat speek)
Calla lilly av Sumatra hav flower 8 ft hi & 12 ft wide.
Theer R 250,000 kinds av flowering plants
Almost all food for land anamals is from flowering plants.
That inklude vegees, fruit, graens, nuts.
fascinating facts
290. flu ("influenza" in krat speek)
***** flu in 1918 killed bout 50 milyun (also kalled the "Spanish Flu")
Flu is a virus dazeez similar tu kolds but badder. Viruses
mutate & form nu straens evree yeer. Yu katch it bi tuch sumthang
with virus onit or breeth aer with virus init.
Eech yeer: 5-20% get the flu (1 av many straens).
Hospital: 200,000/yeer in USA...dokter put em intu hospital.
36,000 ded in averaej yeer. But sum yeers much badder.
****** 1918 bad flu kill many
*** Oft kalled Spanish flu...estimated 50 milyun ded (US +Yerrop=20 mil)
First kase was soldyers in Kansas...4 March 1918. Soldyers spred
it tu Yerrop (go tu fite in WW1). It differ from most flu in that
it kill 20-40 yr old (normal flu atak yung or old). 2.5% hu katch
Spanish flu die (deth rate). Normal flu kill 0.1%.
Also unyushal in that many hu katch Spaen flu die in 5-10 ours.
50% av folks katch this flu=much hier % than normal.
Wave 2=Aug 1918, variant that kill even more. 28% av folks
in USA katch this vershun. 675,000 die
Amerikan soldyer deths in Yerrop in 1918-19, half was from the flu.
******* flu shots: USA: 140,000,000/yeer get flu shots
Senters for dazeez kontrol klaem shots R 70% effektiv.
(Em thank 70% hu get shots hav less chans av get flu).
291. fluoride Add fluoride tu sitee water make sum mad
Sientists found a traes av fluoride in drink water prevent tooth dekae.
("dental caries" in krat speek). 1901: Dok Fred S McKay in Kolo Springs
spekulated sumthang in the sitee water staen teeth.
1927: McKay send water tu Aluminum Kumpany wich foud it hav fluorine
2-13 parts per milyun.
1931: Dok H T Deen studeed dentist rekords in Kolorado & found
plaeses with fluorine in water hav less tooth dekae.
1945: Grand Rapids, Mish=first tu add fluoride in drink water
1 part per milyun. After 15 yeers, found tooth dekae dekreezed 60%.
Fluorine in water bekame kommon. From 1970 tu 1990, tooth dekae in US
kids deklined 68%. Sins then, fluorine in toothpaest bekum yuniversal.
Fluoride in water kauzed all the nuts tu go mad & make redikulus klaems
bout it gonna kill yu.
******* Lokal water suppliers add fluoride tu water
yeer number number % av USA
suppliers folks
1945 3 231,920 0.2%
1950 62 1,578,578 1.0
1960 1,172 41,179,694 22.9
1970 83,725,771 41.1
2002 67%
292. flush USA flush 4.8 bilyun gallons water/dae down the toilet
293. fold paper...many web sites klaem max=7 times. reel anser=10-12.
depend on how thik & how stif the paper. kan fold thin paper
more times than thik. Fakter that kontrol: how the paper stretch
around the 180 degree kerv. All paper is stif=resist stretch.
Ries paper better than paper from trees. Velum even gooder.
294. fone
***** fone trivia: 1914=open long distans line from NY tu San Fran
***** fone...number: bout 1.1 bilyun fones on erth
eech fone yuzed bout 1 our/dae
United states: 26% av housholds hav 2+ fone lines
bout 14% av fones R the old "rotary" tipe (stik finger in hole & spin)
*** land lines=number av spots wired tu kall & be kalled (fixed spot)
US hav 190 milyun "fixed fone lines" (2002)
Erth: 689 milyun land lines (estimate, 1996)
1.1 bilyun...estimate from ITU (2002)
1.5 bilyun miles av fone wire in US
***** fone...number kalls
in US, most fone kalls on Mother's dae
most kollekt fone kalls R on father's dae
half the folks on erth hav never made a fone kall (1996)
4 milyun junk kalls/dae
***** fone...pae fone (koin fone)
1878: first publik fone...yu pae "attendant" tu kall sumwon
1889: first koin fone, Hartford, Konn. Inventer: Will Grae
2005: 500,000 pae fones in USA, & go down sins 2000
2006: 1.7 bilyun pae fone kalls USA
2007: AT&T sae it will sell all its pae fones (65,000 av em)
num pae fones num kalls (USA)
1997 2,086,540 2.5 bilyun
2006 1,006,802 1.7 bil
*** fone number...ITU-T "standard" sae
kuntree prefix-area kode or sitee kode+yer fone number
em hint total number shood be <=15 digits
now hav bout 200 kuntree kodes...impli shood yuze 3 digits
eech kuntree hav variabel number digits for sitee kodes...2 or 3 kommon
from US, sampel internashunal number=011-63-32-333-1234
011=speshal kode for AT&T tu get oversees line
63=Fillipines
32=sitee kode (Cebu state)
anartika kuntree kode=672
***** fone booth
1938: first time Superman chaenj klothes in fone booth...& kops
never arrest him.
***** fone fix: 2006, Maryland...if yer fone line dont werk (ded) take
averaej av 56 hrs for fone kumpanee tu du sumthang (5 daes)
(naturally, yu gotta find sum other fone tu report it)
***** fone: number fones in United States
yeer thousand % av % av lokal kalls/dae
fones folks housholds milyun
1876 3 0.01%
1880 54 0.11% 0.24
1885 156 0.27% 0.86
1890 234 0.37% 1.4
1895 340 0.48% 2.52
yeer milyun
fones
1900 1.005 1.76% 5.17
1905 4.127 4.88 21.2
1910 7.635 8.20 35.3
1915 10.524 10.39 43.7
1920 13.273 12.34 35.0% 50.2
1925 16.875 14.46 38.7 64.8
1930 20.103 16.26 40.9 80.3
1935 17.424 13.64 31.8 73.4
1940 21.928 16.51 36.9 95.6
1945 27.867 19.81 46.2 107
1950 43.004 28.09 61.8 164
1955 55.243 33.72 71.5 204
1960 74.342 40.78 78.3 273
1965 93.656 47.90 84.6 350
1970 120.218 58.34 90.5 458 milyun
***** fone fees..."regulatory kost rekuvree fee"...sound like guvt charj dont it?
its not. Just sumthang fone kumpanee invent tu get more munee from yu
*** fone histree: (history in krat speek)
1876, 10 march: Alexander G Bell talked over wire tu Watson
7 mar: first tu get patent & thus reknized as inventer av the fone
Lotta kontroversy kauz Elisha Grae made similiar fone bout the same time.
1878 first kommershal fone xchaenj (konnekt several fones)
first fone book, Nu Haven fone Kump, had 50 names
1884 first long distans... Boston tu Nu York (27 March)
1899 first koin-operated pae fone
1915....first transkontental fone kall (Nu York tu San Fran)
first operaters was teen boys hu werked on theer feet (no chaers)
first president tu yuze a fone...James Garfeeld.
** komplaents...31,671 komplaened tu better biz buro in 2005=# 1
*** trivia... Nu York Sitee hav more fones than Spaen
NYS hav 33 milyun miles av fone wires
********* sell fones ***************
** USA: # sell fone yuzers=208 milyun (16 mar 06)
=80% av adults
15% av adults karry around 2+ sell fones
15% interrupted sex tu anser the sell fone
0% interrupted sell fone kall tu hav sex
11% av internet yuzers hav yuzed internet tu make fone kalls
26% sed more portant tu retern home for sell fone than wallet
75% keep sell fone on & in arm reech all the time (even wen alseep)
averaej yuzer talk on sell fone 2 ours/month
USA: 224,000 911 kalls/dae
** Werld:bout 1 bilyun sell fones
***** sell fone...drive & talk
kar driver yuze sell fone...2005 guvt study sed 6% av drivers duit
mi kasual test sae reel anser=50% & 10% R on the fone rite now
2005 study...fone+drive kar=4 time the chans tu krash & get hert
***** sell fone annoy
sell fones passed TV & alarm kloks in 2004 servae av wot folks hate most
***** sell fone problem
Katrina: Nu Orleans...all sell fones ded for a month after the hurrikane
*** werld...1.14 bilyun sell fone akkounts (estimate, 2002)
estimated 2 bilyun sell fones
***** sell fone fees...1. activashun fee...35$ averaej
2. kost tu stop the fone b4 yer kontrakt end...up tu 240$
(per fone number)
295. food Yu kan liv 1 month without food, 1 week without water
United States: spend for food in 2004:
eet at home =3,347$/"konsumer unit"
awae from home=2,434$
total 5,781$
guvt "konsumer unit"=famlees+singels+grueps+kids awae at koleej
**** food: guvt sae it kost famlee this much for food in yeer=2000
$/week
thrifty lo-kost "moderate" "liberal"
famlee=2 60.60 78.20 96.40 120.00
famlee=4 88.40 112.60 137.6 169.40
lo-kost famlee av 4=112.60*52=5,855$/yeer
**** food
**** food
USA: eet per persun-yeer ("per capita consumption" in krat speek)
("per capita utilization av commercially produced"...different krat)
from sensus buro, data=1997, published 2000
aegs 176 +58 in "processed foods"
beef 65 pounds
cheez 28 pounds
chicken 51 pounds
fish 15 pounds
froze dairy 30 pounds (ies kreem, sherbet, yogurt)
red meet 116 pounds (kow+pigs+sheep)
milk 24.3 gallons
fat & oil 65 pounds
** sereeals 196.8 pounds
weet flour 147.8
ries 18.9
korn 22.3
oet 6.6
box krunchees 16.9
**
fruit 281 pounds
vegees 418 pounds
potato 47.8
tomato 17.4
shugar 67.0 pounds
korn serup 86.8 (in other stuff yu bi)
**
koko (cocoa) 5.1 pounds
koffee 9.5 pounds av green beens
peenuts 5.9 pounds
tree nuts 2.3 pounds
**
eet 200 pounds peenuts in lifetime
thro awae 27% av its food
**** food
drink..."per capita consumption av selected beverages" in krat speek
nonalkohol 139.8 gallon
koke 53.0
milk 24.0
koffee 23.5
water, bot 13.1 2001=18.8 gal, 2006=28.3 gal
fruit jues 9.4
tee 7.4
alkohol 38.9 gallon
**** food
honey is oenlee natural food that dont spoil (go bad)
ies-kreem soda invented 1874
potato chips kost bout 200 times the kost av same wate potatoes
**** food
werld...half eet ries ("rice" in krat speek) as bulk av food
**** krops developed in Andes Mountins:
avokado, beens, kashue, korn, papaya, peenut
pepper, potato, squash, strawberry, sweet potato, tomato
296. food stamps: number hu get this guvt subsidee
num housholds num folks
1990: 7,803,000 20,411,000
1998: 8,246,000 19,969,000
2007: 28,000,000
June 2009: 11% av amerikans get food stamps
297. forchun kookee
forchun kookee invented in kalifornya in 1918 bi Charles Jung (sum dout bout hu did it)
originally had bibel quotes on the paper (Jung was Prespretarian)
first inported intu China in 1992 (no em dont make em in China)
298. forin stutents in US universitees: 3.24% in 1998
299. forest United States nashunal forests
yeer area, milyun akers
1905 85.693
1910 192.931
1915 184.506
1920 180.300
1925 184.126
1930 183.976
1940 228.174
1950 229.341
1960 226.623
1970 226.064
*** forest
1970: private =364 milyun akers
state & lokal guvts= 29 milyun
wen kut down tree, guvt kall the log "roundwood"
*** forest fire
yeer number fires area berned
1970: 121,736 3,279,000 akers
fascinating facts
300. forin aed ("foreign grants and Kredits" in krat speek)
Munee US guvt giv awae tu other kuntrees
1945-1970 =133.777 bilyun $
West Yerrop 23.865 bil
Eest Yerrop 1.584
Mid Eest 21.668
Far Eest 19.677
Afrika 3.817
Latin Amerika 8.966
Internashunal Orgs 3.623
301. fork was invented bout 1050
got bad rep wen Greek prinses died soon after introdues it at her wedding
1500's was kommon in spaen (rich folks oenlee)
1611...first fork in England. Tom Koryat brot it from Frans
him was vilified bi the nuzpapers
for many yeers, oenlee had 2 prongs.
Amerikans started yuzing forks around 1870
302. forkloes (forecloshuer in krat speek)
United States av Amerika
Forkloes=banker take bak the hous kauz yu didnt make the paements
(www.mortgagebankers.org/newsandmedia/presscenter/......)
note: if yu are behind on the morgage paements, yu R "past du" or "noncurrent"
note: Deliquent=borroer is 90+ daes behind on morgage paement=step B4 forkloes
The forkloes prosses kan take 3-12 months. Sum sites hav stats
on number lones in this proses. This number is bout 4 times the
number forkloesed=number the bank took awae from yu.
******* 31 Okt 07: yu kan bi pakkaged forkloesed morgages at 50 sents on the dollar
*** forkloes:
yeer number forkloesed
1926 68,100
1929 134,900
1930 150,000
1935 228,713
1940 75,556
1945 12,706
1950 21,537
1955 28,529
1960 51,353
1965 116,664
1970 101,070
***** forkloes, number
2005... 887,000 or 846,982 (different soers)
2006...1,260,000=1 in 92 (up 42% from 05)
2008 1.4 mil (estimate)
*** forkloes
2007, first half forkloes=573,397...up 58% over 2006
Okt 2007: Joint Ekon Kommittee predikt 1.3 milyun forkloes
in 2007-2008. kost=71 bilyun $
loer hous values bi 32 bilyun
kut lokal guvt propertee taxes 917 milyun $
*** forkloes rate...% morgages the banker take bak
1950's up tu 0.12% av morgages
1960's up tu 0.78%
1980 0.31%
1987 1.04
1990 0.9
2000 1.2
2001 1.5
2002 1.5
2003 1.3
2004 1.1
2005 2.5
**
***** forkloes...In proses ("preforeclosures " in krat speek):
from RealtyTrak & bankers association
Bank started the long legal steps tu take bak the hous (kan take a yeer)
Rate...% av lones in the forkloes proses)
2006, quarter 4 rate=1.19% delinquent=4.95%
from 33.3 milyun prime lones, 6 mi subprime & 4 mil guvt lones
2007, quarter 1 rate=1.28%
delinquent=4.84%
2007, quarter 2 rate=1.40% nu rekord hi (2006 was 0.43%)
Okt 07: USA forekloes file=128,019
Vegas=4.05% av housholds R in middel av forkloes
30,276 "filings" jan thru Okt...up 106% over 2006
***** forkloes, quarter...number forkloesed & rate=% forkloesed
2007, quarter 1 rate=0.58% up 33% over 2006
2007, quarter 3...446,726 forkloesed up 100% over 2006
1/196 housholds
Nevada: 1/61 up 200% over 2006
Kalif : 1/88 148,147 forkl...up 300% over 2006
Florida: 1/95
sitee: Stokton, Kalif=1/33 R in proses
quarter 3...in middel av forekloes...994,000 famlees
Kalifornya+Florida=33.7% av problem lones
rate=1.69% av morgages (was 1.05 in 2006)
subprime ARM's=6.8% av lones & 43% av problem lones
**** forkloes
Aug 07 USA: forkloes=243,947...up 115% from 2006 (113,300)
=1 houshold in 510; Nevada=1/165
Las Vegas...33,000 so far in 2007 (19,909 all yeer in 2006)
Sep 07 USA forkloes =223,538...1/557 housholds; Nevada=1/185
up 100% from Sep 2006
Okt 07 USA forkloes =224,451 (up 94% from 2006) 1/555 housholds
***** forkloes, side effekts
2007: redues "property values" bi 223 bilyun $
Banks spekt tu luze 400 bilyun $ on lone packages
******** deliquent rate or past due or noncurrent
2006, quarter 4...delinquent=4.95%
2007, quarter 2...delinquent=5.12%
quarter 3...5.59%
June 07 USA: 500,000 R 90+ daes behind on the morgage
July 07: past-due lones=6.4 bilyun $ in US, 50% is morgages
all lones: 5.12% R past-due
subprime morgages:14.8% R past-due
& 14% av morgages R subprime
"noncurrent home lones" up 12.6% from 2006
"noncurrent home bild lones" up 39.5% from 2006
Aug 07: "delinquencies & defaults"=243,947...up 100 % from 2006
RealtyTrak predikt 2 milyun forkloes in 2007
****** forkloes...wi so many now?
maen problem area: sub-prime morgage & ARM's, "option" lones, teeser rates
"no-dokument" lones...many av yu tried tu bi hous yu kant afford.
hous pries go down, so kant refinans or sell hous...bier is
underwater or "upside down" ("negativ equity" in krat speek)
that meen yu oe more on the morgage than hous is werth
2007: 2 milyun ARM teester rates tu be reset tu reel rates this yeer
2007 & 08...2.3 milyun subprime lones tu reset from teeser rates tu reel rates
****** forkloes...bad area
1. midwest...Kar makers lae off so many werkers (Ohio, Indiana, Mishagin)
2. Kalif, Nevada, Arazona, Florida:
4 states hav 33% av subprime ARM's
"invester bi"...spekulaters tri tu flip houses for fast profit
Nevada: 32% av defaults=invester
Arazona:26%
Florida:25%
Kalif: 21%
****** forkloes...moodys predikt
2007: 2.5 milyun morgage defaults
"delinquencies"=2.9% in 2007 quarter 1
tu peek at 3.6% in 2008
baddest=subprime, adjustabel, 4% in 2007, tu peek at 10%
estimate 370Bilyun $ av adjustabel will redu the % interest in 2007
peek=50 bil in Okt 07
303. frate
"Volume av domestic intercity freight traffic" in krat speek)
****** frate truk..."motor vehicles" in krat speek
water.."inland waterways" in krat
Bilyun ton-mile
yeer total rael kar/truk water pipelines aer
1940 651 412 63.2 118 59 0
1945 1,072 736 67 143 127 0.1
1950 1,094 628 173 163 129 0.3
1955 1,298 655 223 217 203 0.6
1960 1,330 595 285 220 229 0.8
1965 1,651 721 359 262 306 1.9
1970 1,936 771 412 319 431 3.3
304. fraud # 1 fraud in 2006=ID Theft
Federal Trade Kommission got 246,000 komplaents bout it in 2006
1 milyun internet yuzers luze 1 Bilyun $/yeer tu "phishing"
305. French Fries: nuthun Frenchee bout em.
Belgian man first fried potatoes & sold em in eeteree.
French kall em "pommes frites"
Brits kall em "chips".
Amerika invented the name "French fries". O'Henry, 1912
story "Rolling Stones".
306. fridae 13...Month gotta start on Sundae for 13th tu be fridae.
307. frisbee named after William R Frisbee=pie maker hu yuzed metal pie pans as plae thang
308. frog hav upper teeth but no loer teech
toeds dont hav teeth
many tropikal frogs are poison
309. fruit most popular
1. tomatoe 60 milyun tons/yeer
2. banana 44
3. appel 36
4. orange 34
5. watermelon 22
***** fruit trivia: Fed judj ruled tomato is a veggee, not fruit
fascinating facts
310. fun ("recreation" or "enjoy" in krat speek)
see also...park=guvt nashunal parks
Spend for "personal consumption expenditures for Recreation"...fun
yeer total toys TV & Radio admit klubs books garden
bilyun $
1909 0.860 0.143 0.166 ???? 0.121 0.104 0.070
1919 2.189 0.377 0.667 ???? 0.242 0.204 0.135
1925 2.835 0.411 0.739 0.367 0.275 0.318 0.182
1930 3.990 0.453 1.038 0.892 0.294 0.776 0.190
1935 2.630 0.352 0.269 0.672 0.197 0.639 0.130
1940 3.761 0.560 0.526 0.904 0.203 0.823 0.201
1945 6.139 0.953 0.432 1.714 0.281 1.485 0.378
1950 11.147 2.263 2.704 1.781 0.462 2.169 0.457
1955 14.078 3.189 3.385 1.801 0.569 2.736 0.546
1960 18.295 4.523 4.213 1.606 0.733 3.497 0.641
1965 26.298 6.369 7.045 1.811 0.879 4.929 0.983
1970 39.049 8.659 9.650 2.413 1.158 7.538 1.436
toys inklude sport equipment such as balls, boets, fish stuf
TV & radio inklude rekords, muzikal instruments
admit=muvees, plaes, opera, spektater sports
books: 42% av book spend =fun, rest go under skuelin
inklude mags & nuzpapers
311. fungus the Deth Kap fungus kauz 90% av fungus kills
Cordyceps spores sprout on a katapiller & gro til it eet-up the hole thang
sum ants & termites gro fungus in theer nest
yeest is a fungus
312. funny bone: the ulnar nerv...it go in a gruev in bigger av 2 loe arm bone
it is kloes tu surfas at the elbo, so if yu bump it, arm tingel.
upper arm bone=humerus in latin.
sum folk thot that meen humerus=funny.
313. galaxy tipikal galaxy hav 100 bilyun stars
***** galaxy number: 350 bilyun big galaxees in yunivers
see also...milky wae
314. gambel Vegas Area hav 1 slot masheen per 8 persuns
Bingo kard hav 44 milyun waes tu win
kasinos never hav a klok & no windo weer yu kan see outside (tu see if sun is up or down)
USA has never issued a patent for a gambel devies
Nevada Kasinos, 2006...gross in take=24 bilyun $, net=2.1 bil
Gambel term:
Blue chip in old daes, had kolers tu sho how much eech chip werth
blue chip=most $. Nowadaes, chips hav all sorts av patterns.
Slot masheens: yu want a "lues" masheen, not a "tite" won.
lues=it pae bak bigger % av munee yu put in.
Gambel slang:
shuer-thang=hous hav almost 100% chans tu win
ded fish him plae slo with small bets tu last long time
"eezee munee"=him dont no how tu gambel
smart munee=sumwon "fix"=bride sumwon tu make shuer him win
stif=unlukkee gambeler
315. Galileo: 1633 him run intu Kathlik Cherch Inquisishun. But Cherch
didnt torcher & kill him. It foers him tu "rekant" evreethank
him sae that cherch dont like, then keep him in hous-arrest
til him die.
Dispite ruemers, Galileo did NOT drop wates from Tower av Pisa
see also...teleskope
316. garage Prez Taft konverted Wite Hous stabels tu garage in 1909
317. garbage (trash) United states output 3 pounds/(persun-dae)
US: 1 yeer av garbage if in 10-ton truks wood be 145,000 miles long
bi aej=75, yu make 52 tons garbage
USA thro awae 22 bilyun plastik water bottels/yeer
318. gas, kar ("gasoline" in krat speek)
("motor fuel, unledded" in krat speek)
**** trivia: gas engin bern 15 pounds aer/pound gas
if gas pries go up 1 sent, US spend 1 bilyun more $/yeer on gas
2008: US drive 3.0 trilyun kar-miles
2008: US yuze 371.2 milyun gallons/dae av kar gas
Jul 08: US spend 1 bilyun $/dae more than we did in 2003
Mae 07: US spend 1.23 bilyun $/dae on gas for the kar
note: kost av raw gas bout the same evreeweer.
differens in pries is mostly TAX (17% in US, 70% in Frans)
Gas pries in 2005 2008
USA 2.49 4.00 $/gal
Australia 3.23
England 5.97
Frans 5.80
Italy 5.74
Japan 4.28
Jermany 5.60 8.60
Kanada 2.87
Mexiko 2.22
Red China no data
see also...pries av gas, oil, elektrik
***** gas, kar, United States, pries
Regular gas til 1978, then waeed averaej av all grades
(www.eia.doe.gov/emu/aer/txt/ptb0524.htm)
yeer then $ konstant $
1950 0.27 1.62
1960 0.31 1.48
1970 0.36 1.30
1980 1.22 2.26
1990 1.22 1.49
1995 1.21 1.31
==> 2000 1.56 1.56
2001 1.53 1.50
2002 1.44 1.38
2003 1.64 1.54
2004 1.92 1.76
2005 2.34 2.09
***** gas, kar, United States, wot make up retael pries
oil 57%
refine 15
sell 08
tax 20%
** pries in Yerrop is hier kauz em hav hier gas tax
***** Gas, kar, gage in gas tank
wi du gas gage in kars alwaes reed tu hi?
Deliberat dezine...kar makers thank yu will go get gas wen gage sae empty
tank hav 10-15% left wen gage sae empty.
& yu hav 90% wen gage sae full.
For many yeers, this was kauz the floet in gas tank kood not gotu the top
reel reesun is kar makers want it that wae.
***** Gas, kost & yuze, USA
2008: as stok market krash & US ekonomee get week, Us yuze less gas
Aug 2008: us drive 15 bilyun less miles=5.6% less than in 2007.
(was 268 bilyun miles)
Sins July 08, oil pries drop 55% tu 66$/barrel
Gas pries drop from 4.10 $/gal tu 2.55 $/gal
***** Gas, tax, USA...sents/gallon for gas tax
yeer fed tax state tax sum tax
1930 0.00 3.35¢
1935 1.0 3.80 [1932..."temp federal tax"...still hav it 75 yeers later]
1940 1.0 3.96
1945 1.5 4.10
1950 1.5 4.65
1955 2 5.35
1960 4 5.94
1965 4 6.41
1970 4 7.01
1982 9
1990 14.1
1993 18.4
2007 18.4 19.4 37.8
319. gas, natural...United States
see also...enerjee
US yuze 60 bilyun kubik feet/dae...bout 25% av enerjee
1 trilyun kubik feet natural gas is bout 1 quad heet out
60 milyun homes yuze natural gas for heet & kook
output from gas feelds in US, Gulf, & offshore Yerrop drop the last 5 yeers.
Resent yeers, supplies tite, so pries jump
kost av 1 milyun BTU
1990= 2$
2006=9.20$
Now sum folks along koest get gas that kum bi ship as a liquid.
as av des 2005, werld hav 191 liquified gas tankers
***** werld natural gas (kubik meter=35.3146 kubik foot)
output, trilyun kubik meters/yeer
2005 werld get 2.848
2006 werld get 2.930
US output= 523.6 bilyun Kube meters
North Amerika=754.0
*** werld gas reservs=6.3 quadtrilyun kubik meters...65 yeer suppli
***** United States natural gas take outta ground
in trilyun kubik feet
yeer volume holesale pries (well-hed)
tril kube ft $/(1000 kubik feet)
1922 0.776 0.111 retael pries
1925 1.210 0.094
1930 1.979 0.076
1935 1.969 0.058
1940 2.734 0.045
1945 4.042 0.049
1950 6.282 0.065
1955 9.405 0.104
1960 12.771 0.140
1965 16.040 0.156
1970 21.921 0.171
**
2000 20 2.60
2002 3.65
2003 6.30
2006 18.50
******* natural gas output bi kuntree, latest estimate (2004-2006)
bilyun kubik meters...meter kube=35.3146 ft kube
werld 2,822
1. Rushya 641
2. United States 531
3. Yerropeon Yuenyun 238
4. Kanada 183
5. England 95.97
6. Netherland 85.98
7. Iran 83.90
8. Norwae 83.49
9. Algeria 80.15
10. Indonesya 76.0
fascinating facts
320. geriatriks...werd was invented in 1951
321. germs
germ= "mikro organism (mikrobe)" that kan make yu sik
Theer R more germs on yer skin than humans on erth
maen tipes:
bacteria=1-selled life form
virus =less than a sell
fungus =dekae
protozoa=small anamal
most germs gotta hav water tu liv. Less germs on dri surfus.
germ liv 3 daes on wet surfus
salmonella kan liv 24 hrs on dri surfus. Freez dont kill it.
best germ killer=bleech
60% av strap germs R resistant tu drugs
best wae tu avoid infekshus dazeez...wash hands all the time
bathroom...if yu dont wash, yu hav 200 milyun bacteria/square inch
on yer skin.
beware the hipe bout "anti-bacteria" soep...its badder than kommon soep
true, anti-bak soep kill more germs
true, after yu wash with kommon soep, nu bacteria gro on yer hands,
but that is good. The nu germs R mostly harmless. Em chek growth
av bad germs. Tests sho kommon problems like kolds spred
less if yu yuze kommon soep.
322. Gettysberg: Linkold did NOT rite his speech on the bak av envelope
on traen tu Gettysberg. Him had 2 weeks tu rite it & go thru
bout 5 drafts.
19 Nov 1863: speech. Linkoln was last aft bout 3 ours av long speeches.
Evreewon bored. His address took 2 minuts. Nowon applaud.
323. gift kard 10% av gift kards R never spended ("redeemed" in krat speek)
2006: 8 bilyun$/yeer gon forever
2008: estimate USA bi 66 bilyun $/yeer
2008: 100 milyun $ lost kauz store go bankrupt (gift kard werthless)
324. giraff kleen its eers with its 21-inch tung
hav 7 nek bones, same as man & mous.
bird hav 23 nek bones
325. girdel ("body shape garment for wemen" in krat speek)
invented in 1910 bi Paul Poiret (Frans)
kommon 1920-1970
now old fashuned, tudae's woman sho all.
girdel kame from the korset. Bak round 500bc, Greek wemen
yuzed vareeus torchuer devises tu "shape" theer body.
around 1300ad in West Yerrop, the fashun was for wemen tu yuze
NE-thang tu pull in the waest tu make it as tiny as kan be.
326. girl Wi du girls (& wemen) thro ball (or wotever) different from boys?
Yung girls du almost same as boys til em start tu be girlish (puberty)
from then on, boys R stronger & thus kan thro farther.
Apparentlee, different stile is kauz boys thro thangs more & lern how tu duit gooder.
(praktis make perfekt)
327. glass
see also...ie glas
take bout 1 milyun yeers tu dekae
krak in glas spred at speed av sound in glass...=12,616 MPH=mach 17 (5640 meter/sek)
328. gluv box ("glove compartment" in krat speek) sumtimes kalled "gluv kloset"
Pakard invented it around 1900. Evree kar hav em & maker ignore the demand.
Erlee kars did not hav a top or windoes, so evreewon wore gluvs, hat,
koets, goggels, maby overshues. & need a plaes tu keep the stuf.
329 go west yung man...Horaes Greelee made it popular bi yuze it in his paper (NY Tribune)
inventer=Jon Soule, paper= Terr Hi, Ind Expres, 1851
fascinating facts
330. gold
***** gold trivia: more gold prospekters in Kalif in 1932 than in 1849-50
***** gold 2008 output (how much get outta the ground):2,356 metrik ton
=2,356,000 kilograms=75,747,143 troy owns
China 12.2%
US 9.9%
South Afrika 9.8%
Austraelya 9.6%
Peru 7.4%
Rushya 7.0%
Kanada 4.2%
Indoneshya 3.8%
***** gold density, mass, volume....spesifik gravity=19.3
water: spes grav==1, 1 gram per cc or 1 kg/liter
thus volume=2,356,000 kg/(19.3kg/liter)=122,072.5 liters
122 kubik meters
volume =kube 4.9607 meters on a side (16.275 ft)
***** gold 1 ton=2,000pound=907.18474 kg
1 kubik meter av water=1,000 kg
1 ton gold: 0.90718474/19.3=0.047004 kubik meter
or 47.004 liters
1 ton av gold=kube 36.089 cm on a side (14.21 inch)
just over 1 kubik foot.
***** gold value: kost a lot kauz it is rare & dont rust. Resist most asids.
2009 pries bout 950$/troy owns
75,747,143 owns*950=71,959,786,270$
***** gold property
gold is also duktile...yu kan make very small wires & thin sheets
pure gold is so soft, yu kan mold it with yer hands.
thus, reel gold is alloed with copper tu make it harder.
***** gold
biggest nugget=156 pounds, 1869, Australia.
gold juels: 24 karat (24k)=100%. kommon is 14k=14/24=58% gold
***** gold pries...US guvt set gold tu 20.67 $/troy-own thru Jan 1934
Then 35$/owns til 1971 wen guvt (Nixon) "float" the pries
It let the market deside pries. Pries jump up.
Max pries was 850$/own in 1980.
For many yeers, United States reknize both gold & silver &
made koins from both. At first, set pries av gold=15 times same wate av silver
1834: gold/silver raeshio set tu 16:1
Over many yeers, gold pries go up more than silver. Thus had times
wen folks melted gold koins & sold em as gold bulyun.
14 March 1900: US guvt go on the gold standard=drop silver.
But it still made silver koins after that.
*** US gold "production"=how much dug outta the ground
yeer milyun $ yeer milyun dollars
1914 93.4 1945 32.0
1915 99.7 1950 80.1
1920 49.9 1955 65.7
1925 48.0 1960 58.8
1930 43.4 1965 58.6
1935 110.7 1970 63.5
1940 170.2
*** Resent US gold output:
2000 355 tons 2003 285 tons
80% kum from Nevada, mostlee as traes side from kopper mines.
Kost tu get gold outta ground=185$/owns
best gold mine is neer Elko, Nevada...3 milyun ownses so far
gold parashute
Big brass that run big kumpanees, wen em get hired, get garantee...
If ever leev or get fired, em get megabuks from the kumpanee.
Zampel: 2008 Finans skandal...Peter Kraus, was boss av Merril Lynch 3 weeks.
US guvt take over the kumpanee & fire him. Him get 25 milyun $.
taxpaer pae, kauz guvt take over the kumpanee.
Also: the former boss that Merril Lynch fired 3 weeks B4 also
got many milyun $. ges hu pae for that? rite, taxpaers.
331. golf
GOLF="gentelmen oenlee, ladies forbid"
***** golf trivia: in Tonga: no penalty if monkee steel golf ball.
golf started in Skotland.
1340: staened glas windo hav pik av man thro his klubs in a lake
Wi du golf balls hav dimpels?
Kauz the ball fli thru aer more prediktabel than smooth ball.
Also go farther.
golf ball hav 336 dimpels
In 1908 Tayler patened dimpeled balls.
Golfers tried several serfus patterns & dimpels won.
332. Goodyeer was in jael for behind on his debts wen him started experiments with rubber
found vulkanizashun bi akseedent....dropped rubber on hot stove
333. gossip: In old daes in England, politishuns hu want tu find out wot
wot the publik thank, sent out men tu bars tu "go sip" sum ael.
merjed intu gossip.
334. grand Kanyon: Big kanyon in north part av Arazona. Karved bi Kolo Riv
thru a hi mesa that was wons the floor av inland see.
1 mile deep; up tu 15 miles wide, 277 miles long.
Kolorful rok walls. Karved 5.5 milyun yeers ago wen
big lake broke thru & send flood down tu the see.
Exposed wall sho 1.5 bilyun yeers av fossil deposits.
That inklude 8 separate floors av shallo inland sees.
Base roks (lava flo) was 30,000 ft under mountins wen it formed.
First from US tu see it...29 Mae 1869, Jon W Powel
First mex tu see it: Garcia Lopez in 1540.
Kolorado river karry 5 tons/sekond av sand & roks thru the kanyon.
335. grass: 3,600 tipes av grass
336. grate wall av China...wen was it started? bout 350 bc
337. grave wi was it the kustom in Yerrop tu burry folks with the feet pointing eest?
Sun worshipers from about 500bc beleeved the ded wood awake.
with the feet on the eest, if yu raes hed bi bend at waest, yu faes the rising sun.
Alaska: em store bodees til spring wen ground thaw out so em kan dig graves.
England bak in 1500's...Em dug up old graves so kood reyuze the land.
Wen look inside koffin, sum see skratch marks & konklude the "ded" was
alive & tried tu get out...bout 4% av koffins. So adopted kustum
av put string in ded hands that leed tu a bell. If ded wake up,
kan pull string & ring bell. So first nite sumwon stae bi the bell
all nite ("graveyard shift") & maby sumwon get "saved bi the bell"
sumtimes kalled a "ded ringer".
338. greek "its greek tu me"=dont understand=sound like gibberish tu me.
Shakespeer, plae "Julius Seesar" Caska spoke in Greek
so if NE-1 heer, him wont understand greek. Ever sins
"greek" stand for sumthang that look or sound like gibberish.
339. greenhous
Methane gas is stronger greenhous than karbon dioxide.
good soers av methane: termites & kows & all anamals that eet plants.
Thus termites warm erth much more than man.
mass av termites is 10 or 1000 times mass av humans
(depend on hu yu beleev)
fascinating facts
340. greenland is wite. Viking Erik the Red named it green as propaganda
tu tri tu get settlers tu go theer.
80% av land kuvered bi glasheers, rest bi sno. Oenlee small
koest frinj in south hav a fyu folks.
341. greeting kard...kards yu send...birthdae, grad, Christmas
USA: 2006 bi 7 bilyun greet kards, kost=7.5 bilyun $
wemen bi 93% av em
Industree divide em intu: seesunal & evreedae...both sell bout same number kards
evreedae subdivided...birthdae=60%, anniversary=7%, freends=6%, sympathy=5%
***** kard, sesunal:
Christmas...2.2 bilyun
Valentine 187 milyun
Mother's dae 151
Father 104
Eester 77
Halloween 31
Thanksgiving 27
342. gross domestik produkt (GDP)
gross domestik produkt...GDP or GNP
Werld & selekted kuntrees
see also...USA GDP
Werld GDP=60 Trilyun $
US GDP=13.84 trilyun $ (2007, guvt estimut)
46,000$/persun ("per kapita" in krat speek)
US GDP=23% av erth GDP (2007, from Werld Bank study)
Red China=9.7%
strong kuntrees...GDP (gross domestik produkt) (2006)
1. United States 13.130 Trilyun $
2. Red China 10.170
3. Japan 4.218
4. India 4.156
5. Germany 2.630
6. England (UK) 1.930
7. Frans 1,891
8. Italy 1.756
9. Rushya 1,746
10. Brazil 1.655
11. South Korea 1.196
12. Kanada 1.178
13. Mexiko 1.149
14. Spaen 1.109
15. Indoneshya 0.948
note...Yerropeon Yuenyun=13.060 Tril $
**************** fastest groers
1. Azerbaijan 34.5%
2. Equater Guinea 18.6%
3. Maldives 18.0
4. Angola 15.0
5. Mauritania 14.1
6. Armenia 13.4
7. Kuwait 12.6
8. Latvia 11.9
9. Trinidad 11.9
10. Estonia 11.4
**************** richest (2004-2006)
1. Luxemborg 71,400 $/persun (per capita in krat speek)
2. Bermuda 69,900
3. Jersee 57,000
4. Equater Guinea 50,200
5. Uni Arab Emir 49,700
6. Norwae 46,300
7. Guernsee 44,600
8. Ireland 44,500
9. United States 44,000
10. Cayman Ieland 43,800
11. Andorra 38,800
12. Brit Virjin Ie 38,500
13. Iesland 38,000
14. Hong Kong 37,300
15. Denmark 37,000
16. Kanada 35,600
17. Austria 34,600
18. San marino 34,100
19. Switzerland 34,000
20. Finland 33,700
********* GNP gro rate...histree
averaej %/yeer
yeer USA Japan Jermany England Frans Italy Kanada
1870-1913 4.3 3.3 2.8 2.1 1.6 1.4 3.8
1913-1929 3.1 3.9 0.4 0.8 1.7 1.8 2.4
1929-1950 2.9 0.6 1.9 1.6 xxx 1.0 3.2
1929-1969 3.3 4.9 4.2 2.2 2.5 3.2 3.8
1950-1959 3.2 8.2 8.6 2.7 4.9 5.6 4.0
1950-1969 3.9 9.7 6.8 2.7 5.3 5.6 4.5
1960-1969 4.5 11.1 4.7 2.8 5.8 5.6 5.2
343. ground hog: 28% rite at predikt wether. Humans R 55% rite.
344. guinea pig...is not a pig, its a mous. & dont kum from guinea.
it kum from Andes mountins (South Amerika)
inkas made it intu a pet
345. gulf streem=big kurrent av warm water from Florida tu Yerrop.
It warm koest av Yerrop & make the klimut mild (mild winters).
It also go very kloes tu koest av South Florida & make it warm.
346. gum chu gum wen yu peel unyuns so yu wont kri
US spend 500milyun $/yeer on gum
chu gum hav rubber init; if not, yu kant blo bubbel.
Wi is bubbel gub pink? "kauz it was the oenlee koler I had"
so sed Walter Diemer hu invented it in 1928.
347. gun 5 kids/dae killed bi gun (akseedents+suiside)
gun in home 22 times as likelee tu be in akseedent as defend self.
firearm" suiside die > kill (suiside=17,108, kill=11,829)
29,569/yeer die bi handgun In US
guvt.. US guvt...see fed guvt
348. guvt United States federal guvt
all guvts=Fed + states + lokal
"Best guvt guvern leest" is quote oft attributed tu Tom Jeffersun.
But Henree D Thoro rote it in his "Sivil Disobediens", 1849.
1995 spend
-------trilyun $/yeer ------ ------ $/person -------
all guvts Feds state+lokal all guvts feds state+lokal
2.759 1.573 1.418 10,500$ 5,986 5,396
feds giv sum munee tu state & lokal, so numbers dont add up
********* guvt...state & lokal
Werkers (employees) 1998
state lokal total
1,541,500 4,481,800 6,023,300
********* guvt...number werkers ("employees" in krat speek)
sivilyuns (no military)
all guvts...Federal+state+lokal
yeer Feds all guvts
1816 4,837
1821 6,914
1831 11,491
1841 18,038
1851 26,274
1861 36,672
1871 51,020
1881 100,020
1891 157,442
**
1901 239,476
1908 356,754
1910 388,708
1920 655,265
1930 601,319
1940 1,128,000 4,474,000
1945 3,375,000 6,556,000
1950 2,117,000 6,402,000
1955 2,378,000 7,432,000
1960 2,421,000 8,808,000
1965 2,588,000 10,589,000
1970 2,881,000 13,028,000
349. hae hae fever not kauzed bi hae...pollen kauz nose tu swell
pollen kan kum from many plants. baddest=ragweed.
fascinating facts
350. haer human haer diameter=0.1 mm
haer gro bout 4 inch/yeer
1 strand av haer gro 2-6 yeers, then die.
normal: nu strand gro out the same hole.
bald: no nu haer gro wen old haer die
Men shed 40 ded haers/dae, wemen: 70
hav bout 100,000 haers on top av hed, but redheds oenlee 80,000
1 strand av haer kan hold up 100 grams (1 kandee bar)
Thus, yer hed haer kan hold up 10,000kg=10 metrik tons
Maeby yu shood NOT tri it.
Men hav more haer & more per square inch & it gro faster
***** haer The haer yu kan see & tuch is ded. Live part is under skin.
same for naels (both made av keratin=skin)
Haer dont rot. anamals kant dijest it. bakteria kant eet it
it will bern & water will sofen it.
wen haer get wet, it stretch.
Yu kan stretch dri haer 25%
***** haer av the dog that bited yu:
sum thank yu kyuer hangover bi take a drink
***** haer: wen did Amerikan wemen start shaving haer from armpit?
1915...first definite rekord...the muvee "Kleopatra" (Theda Bara)
WI???dont no, but bathing byutees started duing it in 1915.
Wemen R slaves tu trend setters. If "evreewon duit", em du 2.
WI duit tudae? apparentlee the eleetists kontrol it; its the "in thang".
maby konnekted tu "byutee" stuff such as make up.
Wemen will du NE-thang if em thank it will attrakt men,
or make other wemen jelus.
***** haer, lifted up bi:
lejendary tall tale: Baron Muchausen, on hoersbak, got stuk
in a swamp. Him save self bi lift self up bi pull up on his haer.
Now yuzed as paradee for a silly "solushun" tu problem x.
351. halloween name=hallo-eve=dae b4 all saents dae (1 Nov), from Saxon hallo=holy.
Started bout 0bc in Britian bi Kelts. Merged with Roman, then
Christian festivals. Also selebrate the ded, deth, end av harvest.
Straenj stuf bout withches, blak kats, & wot not kum from old
kelt superstitushuns.
***** halloween: US spend 2 bilyun $ for kandee for halloween
Wi blak & orange kolers? orange=harvest, blak=nite
Wi latern? Old Irish kuston tu lite kandels for the ded
Jak-o-latern started with Irish karv ternups. In Amerika, em
find the pumpkin is gooder.
Modern Amerikan vershun started in 1921 in Anoka, Minn
US kids, aej 5-13=36.4 milyun (2006)
106 milyun doors tu nok on
2,581 plaeses tu rent kostumes
take=19 bilyun $ av kandee
1 bilyun pounds av pumpkins groed in US
352. hamberger...wi no ham in hamberger? named for Hamberg, Jermany
Started in Hamberg, Germany as chopped beef kalled "hamberg stake"
1834: sum thank Delmoniko eeteree in Nu York had a "hamberger" on theer menu>
1884 Boston Evening Jernal menshun "Hamberg Stake".
1904 at werld faer at St Luis...first time "hamberger"
=grilled ground beef in bred buns.
******* hamberg...McDonalds sold bout 1.2 trilyun hambergers. Em stopped
publish the number bout 20 yeers ago
Sesame seeds on bun: McDonald sae em yuze nuff seeds/yeer so it wae
same as 2 loeded 747's.
French Fries...100 pounds av potatoes bekum 55 pounds av FF
Other 45 pounds: kows & pigs eet it.
1 faktree in Washington make 100,000,000 french fries/dae
(McDonald oen the faktree)
353. hand hu was first president tu shake hands? Tom Jefferson.
Washaington & Adams bowed.
Rite handed folks liv 9 yrs longer than left handed
Most akters (muvee stars) R left handed.
354. hanger Straten out a wire hanger=44 inch long
355. hart human hart ("heart" in krat speek)
***** hart: human hart bout same size as yer fist
bigger yu R, the bigger yer hart (& hand is bigger 2)
wate=1 pound
***** hart hav 4 "chambers"...2 for body & 2 for lungs.
1 box fill with blood that kum bak tu hart, next box pump it out
hart pump blood tu lungs, then tu body, then tu lungs, then....
(see hartrate...just belo)
**** hart: 1 beet send out bout 50 cc's av blood
Standard adult at rest, hart rate=70 beets/min
blood flo rate=3 liters/our=72 liters/dae=26,298 per yeer
US life "spektansee"=78 yeers...2,051,244 liters go thru hart.
or 12,900 oil barrels (158.984 barels/liter)
human adult hav bout 5 liters av blood...depend on how big yu R
yu hav bout 62,000 miles av blood pipes (arteries & vanes)
take 1.4 minuts for all yer blood tu go thru hart
hart atak...700,000 Amerikans/yeer hav theer first hart atak (attack in krat speek)
500,000 hav hart atak 2
**** hart: biggest "artery"=the aorta bout same size as 5/8 inch garden hoze
capilaries: small wons=1/10 the diameter av 1 haer
**** hart USA du 100,000 "majer hart surgery"/yeer=kut open chest, & dig intu hart
356. hartrate (hartbeet) ("heart" in krat speek)
sound dokters listen tu is made wen hart valves kloez
Standard for adult human at rest=70 beets/minut=100,800/dae
blood flo rate=3.5 liters/minut (at rest)
hard werk...bout 3 times that
human, adult mael averaej=36,816,000 beets/yeer
70 yeers=2.5 bilyun beets
adult femael averaej= 75 beets/minute=108,000/dae=39,446,000/yeer
baby =140 beets/minute=201,600/dae=73,632,000/yeer
teen = 90 beets/minute=130,000/dae=47,335,000/yeer
athleet = 60 beets/minute= 86,400/dae=31,556,000/yeer
max stress =220 beets/minute [yu wont last a dae at that rate]
ruby throet hummingbird, at rest=250 /minute=360,000/dae
wen it fli =1,220 /minute=1,757,000/dae
elefant = 28 /minute= 40,320/dae= 14,726,000/yeer
hedjhog =300 /minute=432,000/dae=157,800,000/yeer
mous =200 /minute=288,000/dae=105,188,000/yeer
wale = 9 /minute= 12,960/dae= 4,733,000/yeer
357. Harvard Kolleej...founded in 1636...had a wood wall around it tu keep out Indians.
kalled Kambridj at first. In 1638 Harvard donated 400 books & it chaenjed its name.
358. Hat 10-gallon hat hold 0.75 gallon
359. Hawaii alfabet hav 12 letters...a,e,i,o,u & h,k,l,m,n,p,w
Honolulu is kloeser tu Japan than tu Nu York Sitee
& drift tuward Japan at 4 inch/yeer
fascinating facts
360. Hedj Fund (hedge in krat speek)
Mutual fund that kan sell short=tri tu profit if stoks go down.
Most leverage the "investments"...borro munee so kan bi/sell
more stok. Leverage=more profit wen em ges rite, but also
bigger loss wen em rong.
Side effekt av the bust av the hous bubbel: Banks
luze so much munee, em insist hedj funds put up more kapital.
Hedj funds gotta sell "assets"...the "instruments" em oen tu
raes kash. Several hedj funds kant raes nuff $ & go bust.
trivia: March 2008: Hedj Funds hav 1.9 trilyun $ invested.
361. Heer Humans heer 20-20,000 cps sound waves
heer best: 1,000-4,000
362. Heet It took til 1955 for half the homes in United States tu hav sentral heet.
Sentral heet: furnans tu make heet + wae tu muve heet tu most rooms.
hous heeted bi bern wood...kids hav 5 times the lung/breeth problems
persun at rest put out bout 100 watts
363. helth ("health" in krat speek)
**** trivia: 45 milyun in USA dont hav helth inshuer (2007)
helth spend, 2006 report from Werld Helth Org
% av GDP $/persun
USA 15.2 5,711
Jermany 11.1 3,204
Frans 10.1 2,981
Kanada 9.9 2,669
Argentina 8.9 305
So Afrika 8.4 295
England 8.0 2,428
Brazil 7.6 212
******* USA helth spend (health expenditures in krat speek)
yeer bilyun $ % av GDP per persun
1929 3.65 29.49$
1940 3.99 29.62$
1950 12.66 81.86$
1960 26.7 5.1% 146.30
1970 73.1 7.0% 318.44
1980 247.3 8.9% 1,091.6
1990 699.4 12.2% 2,812
1995 993.3 13.7% 3,679
2000 1,309.9 13.3% 4,655
2001 1,426.4 14.1%
2002 1,559.0 14.8%
2003 1,678.9 15.3% 5,769
******* Helth kost, United States, 1967=100
yeer total drugs dokter hospital
1935 36.1 70.7 39.2 11.9
1940 36.8 70.8 39.6 12.7
1950 53.7 88.5 55.2 28.9
1960 79.1 104.5 77.0 56.3
1970 120.6 103.6 121.4 143.9
******* US Biz spend on gruep helth inshuer
2000 331 Bilyun $/yeer
2005 514 Bilyun $/yeer
******* USA...unpaed medikal kost av em without NE helth inshuer:
2006=43,118,528,000$ (43 bilyun $)
******* latest helth studees
lo fat diet dont help old wemen
kalsium pills dont help old wemen
364. helth kare, USA
averaej kost= 7,000$/persun (2006).
helth inshuer, famlee polasee...averaej kost=11,480 $/yeer
365. Hershee: 1894: Miltom Hershee found his milk-choklut faktree.
366. hevee (heavy in krat speek)
man: Joe Brower Minnoch... 635 kg(1400 pounds), Seattel hospital, March 1978
man alive tudae=Manual Uribe: was 1235 pounds, now down tu 700
(lost 535 pounds)
367. hikkups: Charles Osborn had kikkups 69 yeers
Best kyuer=breeth intu paper bag...it inkreez karbon dioxide
in lungs.
368. hippo is a pig. kan be up tu 4 tons.
kan open mouth 4 ft hi
skin is 1.5 inch thik & tuff...most bullets dont go thru it
369. histree ("history" in krat speek)
Alexander=king av Masadonia (just north av Grees)
Konkered Grees, then the noed werld (Sivilized werld=Middel Eest)
Died at 33 & his empier fell apart.
Roman empire=longest: 600 yeers av be the biggest & strongest
in Mediterrian area.
Amerika started as nuthang, fited off the most powerful kuntree & in time replaesed her.
Amerikan revolushun...replaes kings & despots with demokrasee. We R stil werkin onit.
Dark aejes=Yerrop after the Roman Empire Fell wen Atilda the Hun ravished it in 423ad.
Kuntrees broke up intu small peeses & smaller & smaller.
Sivilization died. Siens & engineering died. Wars the rule.
Kaeos evreeweer.
**** histree
England & the empire...biggest zampel av the underdog kum bak & win.
small wimp av nuthang gro intu most powerful kuntree & bild empire biggest ever.
bi 1900, em sae "sun never sen on Brit empire". It hav kuntrees all round the globe.
Thats wen dekae started. result...now English is the werld tung & England a wimp agin.
England is marked bi queen periods...Elizabeth 1 & Viktoria.
& 1 man=Winston Churchil.
Germany made 2 well noed men...Bismark & Hitler. Both noed bi the wars em started.
Greek =bekame senter av lerning. Later Yerrop diskuvered 2000-yr old Greek books
Latin & Greek bekame base av all lerning in Yerrop in Middel aejes.
wotever em sed=the gospil unless the pope sed sumthang different.
Iliad =faemus greek story bout the war ginst Troy.
Julius Caesar=Roman Jenral hu bekame diktater=King (Seesar=latin for king)
He terned Rome intu an empire...biggest & longest empire ever.
55bc: Julius okkupi south part av England.
king tut=faemus mummee in Egypt. Theeves did not find the tomb
so the tomb had all the stuff put theer with the ded king.
Kleopatra=Egypt ruler=faemus kauz her had affaers with Julius S & Mark Anthony.
Her was the last av the Greek rulers Alexander installed tu rule Egypt for him.
Middel Aejes=Yerrop after the dark aejes=1000-1500 ad.
The kaeos setteled down intu dreeree, drab, desperat life.
Mongals =hoersbak fiters sweep outta the "steeps" & okkupied China.
Gengis Kan sweeped thru most av Rushya, setup pupet guvts tu rule it.
later "khans" went west tu Poland & occupied parts av the Middel Eest.
Odysseus=faemus greek story bout 20-yeer wandering av 1 lost man.
Rennaisans...Latin for "rebirth"=kum bak tu life.
bout 1350 Yerrop diskuver life after the middel aejes.
started in wot is now Italy with "artists"=paenters such as Mikkelangelo.
then sitee-states rose bi trade with the moslums that ruled Afrika & the middel eest.
later siens rose & fited off the ignorans that ruled Yerrop.
siens tudae still tri tu fite the barbarians, with limited sukses.
**** histree
Rome bilt many big bildings. Faemus=the Colosseum=big stadium.
bilt about 70 ad. Hold 50,000.
All roeds leed tu Rome...Rome bild rok roeds so army kan hold empire tugether.
aquadukts bring water tu Rome & other sitees. Wen barbarians tare down
the water pipes, evreewon fled the sitees. Rome bekame a small pile av krude krud.
Vikings (Northmen)...raeders from the north, terrerized much av Yerrop round 700-1000 ad.
kame from Denmark+Sweden+Norwae in boets, go up big rivers tu sitees far inland.
(boet "water vehicle" in krat speek)
em looted, berned evreethang em didnt take, & karried awae all the good-lookin girls.
em setup kolonies in Normandee, Sicaly, Iesland, Greenland, & Labador.
em found North Amerika around 1000 ad. (em was outsiders, so Yerrop ignored that)
fascinating facts
370. historikal figgers
Abe Linkoln, Danyel Webster, Jon Marshal...never went tu law skuel
Einstein never went tu koleej (gotu teknekal skuel & faeled the entrans
exam on the first tri)
Jon Paul Jones (1747-92) faemus for win see fite over Brits
born a bastard, was an akter, yuzed assumed name most av the time
was a pirat & slave trader, wanted for 2 murders, tried for rape av underaej girl
died pennyless
Mark Twaen never got thru grade shuel
Napoleon was afraed av kats.
Paul Reveer was kort marshaled for koward. (kleered)
Tom Edisun never got thru grade shuel
Winston Churchil smoked 300,000 sigars
371. hiwae
see also...trans muve
USA hav 3,974,103 miles av hiwaes (2003)
interstate 46,508
other freewae 9,870
primary 383,392 ("arterial" in krat speek)
kollekter 788,926
lokal 2,745,411
**** hiwae... same hiwaes, brake it down dif
sitee 940,969 ("urban" in krat speek)
kuntree 3,033,138 ("rural" in krat speek)
**** hiwae... interstate hiwaes in US=46,837 miles (2004)
14,750 interchaenjes
55,500 bridjes
82 tunnels
longest rout=Seattel tu Boston=3,021 miles
most in 1 state: Texas=3,233 miles av interstate
**** hiwae..."Federal-aid"...US guvt pae bout 75% av kost tu bild
yeer miles $ spend in 1 yeer ("total disbursements" in krat speek)
1925 179,501 221 milyun $
1930 193,653 237
1935 219,869 242
1940 235,482 269
1945 308,741 101
1950 643,939 753
1955 749,166 1.287 bilyun $
1960 866,841 3.264
1965 908,722 4.569
1970 895,208 4.625
**
1990 75,408
1995 93,478
2000 122,697
2003 143,195
**** hiwae... how much states spend on hiwaes
yeer spend, milyun $
1915 90
1920 358
1925 783
1930 1,296
1935 1,330
1940 1,780
1945 1,449
1950 3,613
1955 5,794
1960 9,276
1965 12,531
1970 16,501
372. hobby we spend more on garden that NE other hobby
% av famlees that du this
garden 51%
kollekt koins 27%
needelwerk 22%
wood werk 21%
watch birds 17%
sweepstakes 14%
wine 13%
quilt 10%
kollekt stamps 7%
373. hoers sleep wile stand up
***** hoers trivia: hoers will go up strate staers, but not serkular staers.
Hoers eet 7 times it wate eech yeer.
"long on tooth"...As hoers get older, the teeth look longer...gums reseed
"on a hi hoers" kum from middel aejes wen rich or roaltee
had tall hoerses. Hoers hite=good gage av yer rank.
wi du riders get on hoers on left side?
In old daes, armed men had sord on left side (eezee for rite hand tu grab it)
with long sord, eezeer tu get on hoers with left foot in left stirrup.
***** hoers extinkt hoers ansester="eohippus" was size av medium dog.
hoersmeet...Pope Gregory 3 forbid eet hoers meet in 732 ad
kauz it was yuzed in pagan rityuals. Him dont like pagans.
hoersraes...the favorit win bout 30% av the time
hoersshue is lukky...many tales bout wi.
1 tale is blaksmith Dunstan (later bishop av Kanterbury)
told devil tu never enter a hous with hoersshue over the door.
wi du hoerses weer shues? Romans started it. Em made roeds paved with big roks.
rok 2 hard on hoers. Hoerses go "lame".
wild hoerses on the open raenj dont hav shues.
hoerses for werk, plae, raes, sport: gotta hav shues.
374. hoghed obsoleet US store box tu hold farm krops
most kommon hoghed was 2 US barrels...bout 238 liters
That "barrel"=beer barrel=31.5 US gallons
Warning...oil barrel =42 US gallons
375. holywood was founded bi a temperans sosiety in 1888.
for 20 yeers...no krime, no jael, no lokked doors.
376. home
stats bout housing, sales, price, bild rate, number houses in USA,
home lones, oenership rates, number forkloes, vakant rate, ets
klik heer tu see home/hous/housing
377. homeless...1.6 milyun homeless in USA (2008)
378. honee tu make 1 kg av honee, bees go thru 1 milyun flowers &
fli 100,000 miles
honeemoon: spend 3 times wot normal vakashuneer spend...1,400$
379. Hong Kong=a small ieland off koest av south China.
Former Brit kolony inkluded the "nu territories"=peninsula
next tuit. "honk kong"="fragrant flower"
England got it in 1842 ween defeet China in the opium war 1.
Kolony had 1,126 sq mile, but oenlee 410 was land.
Brits named the sitee "Viktoria" (queen Viktoria)
England gave it bak tu Red China (1 July 1997)
fascinating facts
380. hospital
USA hav 5,764 hospitals in 2003 (Amerikan Hospital Assos)
965,000 beds & 66% av beds in yuze
16,491 nersing homes. 82.4% av beds in yuze
110,216,000 "visits" tu emerjensee room
stomak (belly) 7,502,000 6.8%
chest paen 6,005,000 5.4
"fever"=sik 4,167,000 3.8
Bak prob 2,895,000 2.6
hed hert 2,895,000 2.6
koff 2,702,000 2.5
breeth prob 2,553,000 2.3
thro up 2,524,000 2.3
**** hospital: kost= 1,379$/dae in 2003 (averaej)
kost/stae=7,796 $
2 milyun/yeer get sik in the hospital=katch a dazeez theer
medikans invented a werd for it..."noscomial dazeez"
90,000/yeer die from it
(30,000 katch infekshus dazeez & die from it)
(60,000...dazeez em katch push sik persun over the edj)
2006...US guvt report sae hospitals make 1 drug mistake/paeshent-dae
& it hert 1,500,000/yeer (annually in krat speek)
yu spend averaej av 0.1 dae/yeer as paeshent in a hospital
****** hospital...number in United States (Am Hospital Assos)
yeer number number
yeer hospitals beds
1909 4,359 421,065
1918 5,323 612,251
1920 6,152 817,020
1930 6,719 955,869
1940 6,291 1,226,245
1950 6,430 1,456,912
1960 6,876 1,657,970
1970 7,123 1,615,771
381. hot natural on erth, rekorded=136 deg Farenhite, Libya
US...Deth Vallee=134 deg F in 1913
man-made...2 bilyun kelvin=3.6 bilyun farenhite
sun... surfus=6,000 deg sentigrade (11,000 F)
senter=15,000,000 deg S (27 milyun F)
382. hot dog USA eet 18 bilyun/yeer...nuff tu strech tu moon & bak.
=60/persun-yeer
spend 600 milyun $/yeer on em
weener oft kalled a frankferter kauz invented in Frankfurt, Germany in 1852
Germans oft kall it dachhund...long skinny dog
German immigrant in Nu York Sitee added the bun
kartoonist at NY Times invented "hot dog" kauz him dont no dachhund
383. hotel/motel: USA hav 47,027 (hotel+motel) in 1999
55,992 "lodjing plaeses"
Averaej: 40% av rooms vakant (nowon rent it) eech nite
384. hous & home
hous price, bild rate, size, stats
klik heer for home/hous/housing
USA hav 129.3 milyun houses (singel-famlee hous) (Sensus buro) March 2008
385. houshold Number "households"...as defined bi US guvt krats
yeer num HH size=num persuns/HH
1790 558,000 5.79
**
1850 3,598,000 5.55
1860 5,211,000 5.28
1870 7,579,000 5.09
1880 9,946,000 5.04
1890 12,690,000 4.93
**
1900 15,964,000 4.76
1910 20,256,000 4.54
1920 24,352,000 4.34
1930 29,905,000 4.11
1940 34,949,000 3.67
1950 43,554,000 3.37
1960 52,799,000 3.33
1970 63,401,000 3.14
1980 80,776,000 2.76
1990 93,347,000 2.63
1999 103,874,000 2.61
**
2000 97,840,000
2001 107,000,000
2006 112,000,000 (estimat)
**** trivia: averaej 2.8 persuns, 1.9 kars & 1.8 drivers per houshold
Warning...US guvt stats yuze "houshold" weer yu thank "famlee"
guvt "famlee"= married kupel + all kin hu liv with em
it exklude housholds av 1 persun & all grueps that R not kin
zampel...2000 sensus sae 71,787,347 famlees
97,840,000 housholds
****** houshold appliance:
USA thro awae 700,000 tons/yeer av small home appliances
****** houshold appliance: averaej life span (expectancy in krat speek)
aer kondishun 8-15 yeers
kondenser init 1-6
windo a/c 10
bathtub 40
briks 100
dishwasher 9
valve inside 3-5
drier, klothes 12-15
driwall 60
elektroniks 1-7
sell fone 3-4 (but 98% chans yu will luze it B4 then)
fauset 20
floor
karpet 8
laminate 15
seramik 75
vinyl 10-50 (different soerses kontradikt eech other)
wood 75 (if yu keep em in good shape)
freezer 10-20
furnus, gas 15
garage door opener 10
garbage disposer 12
gutters 25
kabnets, kitchen 20-50
lawn moer 7-15
lite switch 10
mikrowave 9
paent 15
refrigerater (fridj)8-15
roof, shingels 10-20
siding, aluminum 20-50
vinyl 50
sink, bath 40
kitchen 50
stove 15 (range in krat-speek)
toilet tank flush mekanism 5 yeers
trash kompakter 6
washer, klothes 8-15
water heeter 10
water pump 7-10
windo 30
386. human body is 60%-90% water [depend on hu yu beleev]
***** human blood: 10 pints
blood tubes (pipes)=bout 60,000 miles (arteries, vanes, kapalerees)
body replaes hole body evree 7 yeers
female ovaries make 2,000,000 aegs, but not all bekum a kid
braen...send out signals up tu 37 hrs after kut braen outta body
Hart will keep beeting after kut outta the body (limited time offer)
human ie kan tell apart 10,000,000 kolers
lungs breeth in 75 milyun gallons av aer (1 lifetime)
male eet 50-60 tons av food (in 1 lifetime)
650 mussels
nervs send signals at 180 MPH
skin...yu shed 40 pounds (1 lifetime)
stumak bild nu lining evree 3 daes
digest time: shugar=0 sekond, starch=2 hrs, fat=6 hrs
+ 4 hrs in small gut (intesttine in krat speek)
+ big gut...time vary widely
9000 taste buds
387. hummingbird, ruby throet wae 3-4 grams=0.14 owns (bout same as a pennee)
body temp=110 deg F
fli at 25 MPH forward. Kan fli bakward.
wings beet 75/sekond
nuborn=size av bumbelbee.
388. hunger
Werld: 1.2 bilyun go hungree most av the time
USA, 2006: 12.6 milyun housholds=35.5 milyun folks sumtimes hungree
389. hurrikane...big mass av spinning aer & klouds from the tropik see
***** hurrikane=Wind speed >=74 MPH=hurrikane. If < 74...tropikal storm.
most hurrikanes form in south Atlantik Oeshun, then muve west
sum veer north & hit North Amerika. Sum go intu Karibeean See
or Gulf av Mexiko. Warm see water suppli heet & wind get stronger.
Wind pile up see intu big wave=see surj (storm surj) wen it hit land.
Katrina storm surj was 28 ft hi. Yu dont wanna be theer wen it hit.
Senter av hurrikane is the ie...area without klouds & littel wind.
Max wind is the "wall" around the ie.
Wen hurrikane hit land, hi wind & hevee raen follo the surj.
It luze strength over land & winds dekreez. But kan spred hevee raen
far inland. Strong wind kan spred 150 miles out from the ie, so
wind kan be bad 6 ours B4 the reel storm hit.
Hurrikane seesun=June thru November. Max number storms in September.
Wen storm in South Atlantik is strong nuff, it is kalled "tropikal depresshun"
& guvt brass giv it a number. Wen wind >=40 MPH..."tropikal storm".
Then guvt brass giv it a name. In Sep, theer kan be 3 or 4 storm/hurrikanes
wandering round the oeshun at same time.
***** hurrikane trivia
USA...Averaeg ded=16/yeer from hurrikanes, but vary a lot from yeer tu yeer
in 10 minuts a hurrikane blo out more enerjee than in
all atomik bombs on erth.
most in Pasifik R kalled Tifoons
***** hurrikane: bad wons
baddest...Galveston, 8 Sep 1900...bout 10,000 killed
1909: Grand Iel, Luisiana...350 ded (20 Sep 09)
1915: Nu Orleens 275 ded ( Sep 15)
1969: Kamille hit Luisiana with 190 MPH=biggest blo yet
1992: Andru...Bahamas & south Florida, 15 ded (August)
***** hurrikane: resent hurrikanes & Tropikal storms
yeer name weer ded kost, bil $
1996 Aug Fran N Karolin 5
1998 Aug Bonnee N Karolina 31 1
1998 Sep Jorj Florida 31 3
1999 Sep Floyd N Karolina 31 6
2001 Jun Allison Texas 140 5 (tropikal storm)
2004 Sep Charly Florida 34 14
2004 Sep Ivan Alabam 52 12.0
2004 Sep Jeenne Florida 28 6.5
2005 Aug Katrina Nu Orleens 1,833 200
fascinating facts>
390. I most oft yuzed English werd wen yu talk is "I".
391. Id id theft in USA: 27,000/dae (1 per 3 sekonds) (2007)
estimated 11 milyun "affected"
26%=kredit kard fraud
18%=fone or utility
17%=bank fraud
12%=job
5%=lone
392. Ie ("eye" in krat speek)
***** ie: IRIS=the kolered part av the ie
Ostrich ie is bigger than its hed
human ie suppli braen with 95% av its input
human ie resolushun=1 mega pixels
best resolushun is just off senter...nerv bundel tu braen is at bak av ie
so strate-ahead is slitely outta fokus.
yu kan tell apart 8 milyun kolers (in side-bi-side test)
feeld av vyu=170-180 deg, but ie oenlee fokus in small area neer strate-ahed.
yer ies stae size it was at birth. Nose & eers gro. (& mouth 2)
retina=kerved surfas at bak av ie...weer yu detekt lite
it hav 125 milyun rods=see blak/wite
& 7 milyun kones=see koler...thats wi yu kant see kolers in dim lite
blue ies R more sensativ tu dim lite than brown or blak.
also more sensativ tu brite lite & UV.
It take ie 1 our tu adapt tu dark...then it see dim lite 100,000 times as good.
If yu kan find total dark, yu kan see a match 50 miles awae
warning...erth surfus is kerved...yu kant see 50 miles; yu gotta be hi up or wot yu look at gotta be.
in tudae's werld, very hard tu find plaes with no man-made lite in 50 miles av yu.
***** ie bags under ies...wot kauz em?
1. its just a shado kauzed bi overhed lite
2. heredity...its mother's fault
3. "fluid retention"...yer all wet
4. "ageing"...wot cha spekt wen yu get old? get pretteeer?
5. 2 many smile/frowns (evreewon sept Bob Nuhart)
** ie chart...wi duit hav a big e on top?
Dutch professer Herman Snellen put it theer in 1862
he was then the biggest bigwig in feeld av test how good ies kan see
***** ie biggest ie: giant squid
***** ie sum anamals hav ies that glo in the dark
sum anamals hav a reflekter laeer behind the retna...lite bouns bak.
this dubel the chans retna see the lite, so em see better in the dark.
but that laeer reflekt bak yer hedlites & make theer ies glo.
393. Ie glasses ("spektakels" in Brit)
2/3 av adults in US weer glasses or kontakts
400bc Greeks yuzed glass as magnifier
around 150ad Ptoleny xplaened rules, theree, & the shape the glas needed
nowon paed NE attenshun tu the greeks
Seneka av Rome (4bc-65ad) yuzed glass bowl with water init tu reed
1000ad monks in Yerrop yuzed glas speers as magnifier
1268 Roger Bakon=first noed riteup bout yuze lenses tu help folks see
1289 Italyun rote that him yuze ieglasses (spectaceles in British)
for folks huz ieballs R not shaped rite & thus kant fokus good
1600 first Yerropeon sientists figger out wot Ptoleny nu
394. Ieland
Bahama ielands...3000 ielands but sumwon liv on oenlee 20 av em.
biggest: Greenland, Nu Guinea, Madagaskar
395. Ies ("ice" in krat speek)
water expand 9% wen it freez, so ies is less dens & floet on water.
ies density=0.9167 water density (pure water)
Ies is the oenlee non-metal tu expand wen it freez.
surfus av ies is slippery sept at very kold temperatures.
Hi pressure will melt ies at moderat tempers...more pressure inkreez
freez temp.
396. Iesberg biggest iesberg broke off Ross ies shelf in anartika: 23 miles bi 183 mile
397. Ies kreem ("ice cream" in krat speek)
USA: eet 1.5 bilyun ies kreem kones/yeer
398. Iesland dont tip: its an insult
399. Immigrants intu USA
***** number legal immigrants intu United States
yeer number
1820 8,385
1830 23,322
1840 84,066
1850 369,980
1860 153,640
1870 387,203
1880 457,257
1890 455,680
**
1900 448,572
1910 1,041,570
1920 430,001
1930 241,700
1940 70,756
1950 249,187
1960 265,398
1970 373,326
fascinating facts>
400. imports
US import 100% av the folloing
mineral maen soers yuze it for
Arsenik China, Morokko preserv wood
Asbestos Kanada roofs, brakes
bauxite Jamika,Australia aluminum
Fluorspar China, S Afrika hydrofluorik asid
Grafite China, Mexiko Seramiks, batterees, lube
Indium China, Kanada Paent, elektroniks
Kolumbium Brazil, Kanada Steel alloys
Manganeez So Afrika steel, batterees
Quartz Brazil, Jermanee elektroniks
Rare Erths China, Frans Catalysis, metals, glass
Rubidium Kanada fiber optiks
Strontium Mexiko TV tubes
Thallium Beljum Medikal, radiashun
Thorium Frans Seramiks
Vanadium Czek Steel
Ytrium China lite bulbs, CRT
US import 99% av the folloing
mineral maen soers yuze it for
Gallium China Elektroniks
Jems (juels) Israel, India Juels
401. in a jiffy...10 milisekonds
402. independent: US deklare self independent av England 4 July 1776
Kontennental Kongress met in Filly, Pennsland in summer av 76
Em made a 5-man kommittee tu rite it. Tom Jeffersun rote
most av it. Redee on 2 July. Kongress insist on sum chaenjes.
Jefferson freed the slaves; South sae no.
4 July 1776: kongress voted for it. Nowon sined it then.
Sum soerses klaem Jon Hankok & Charles Thomson sined it on 4 July.
Many delegates (kongresmen) was not in Filly then.
8 July 1776: bigwig reed the paper from balkony av Independens Hall=
tell the publik.
Nu York sined on 9 July. Bi 2 Aug, most had sined it.
But 6 more names added over next 5 yeers.
Sum voted for it, but did not sine it.
Jorj Washington did Not sine it...him NOT a delagate.
403. India ink kum from China. It is karbon blak mixed with gum=solid.
Sam Pepys in England around 1665 yuzed "india ink" & its ben
part av English ever sins.
404. indoneshia...hav 694 tungs ("language" in krat speek)
hav 150 aktiv volkanoes=75% av erths'.
17,500 ielands more or less, but oenlee 6,000 hav name.
1,000: sumwon liv theer.
hav 3,500 speeses av reef fishes.
405. inflate (flate rate or "inflation" in krat speek)
Jermany had very hi flate rate in 1920's:
If yu had 1 mark in Des 1921, 1 yeer later, yu need 1,757 marks
tu bi same thang.
** free: If inflate is bad, wi du guvt sae deflate is bad 2?
**
****** inflate United States flate rate (Consumer Price Index in krat speek)
index: 1967=100
yeer index 1-yr yeer index 1-yr
1900 25.0 0.0%
1910 28.0 3.7
1913 29.7 2.4
1915 30.4 1.0
1920 60.0 15.8
1925 52.5 2.5
**
1930 50.0 -2.5% 1970 116.3 5.9%
1931 45.6 -8.8 71 121.3 4.3
1932 40.9 -10.3 72 125.3 3.3
1933 38.8 -5.1 73 133.1 6.2
1934 40.1 3.3 74 147.7 11.0
1935 41.1 2.5 75 161.2 9.1
1936 41.5 1.0 76 170.5 5.8
1937 43.0 3.6 77 191.5 6.4
1938 42.2 -1.9 78 195.4 7.7
1939 41.6 -1.4 79 217.4 11.3
**
1940 42.0 1.0 1980 246.8 13.5
1941 44.1 5.0 81 272.4 10.4
1942 48.8 10.7 82 289.1 6.1
1943 51.8 6.2 83 298.4 3.2
1944 52.7 1.7 84 311.1 4.3
1945 53.9 2.3 85 322.2 3.6
1946 58.5 8.5 86 328.4 1.9
1947 66.9 14.4 87 340.4 3.6
1948 72.1 7.8 88 354.3 4.1
1949 71.4 -1.0 89 371.3 4.8
**
1950 72.1 -0.4% 1990 391.4 5.4%
1951 77.8 9.4 91 408.0 4.2
1952 79.5 2.2 92 420.3 3.0
1953 80.1 0.8 93 432.7 3.0
1954 80.5 0.5 94 444.0 2.6
1955 80.2 -0.4 95 456.5 2.8
1956 81.4 1.5 96 469.9 2.9
1957 84.3 3.6 97 480.8 2.3
1958 86.6 2.7 98 488.3 1.6
1959 87.3 0.8 99 499.0 2.2
**
1960 88.7 1.6% 2000 516.0 3.4%
1961 89.6 1.0 01 530.4 2.8
1962 90.6 1.1 02 538.8 1.6
1963 91.7 1.2 03 549.0 1.9
1964 92.9 1.3 04 562.7 2.5
1965 94.5 1.7 05 584.0 3.8
1966 97.2 2.9 06 603.5 3.3
1967 100.0 2.9 07 615.3 2.0
1968 104.2 4.2
1969 109.8 5.4
**
1970 116.3 5.9%
406. inkum (median inkum)
USA 2008 median houshould inkum=54,800$
median houshold size=2.57 persuns in 2005
United States inkum after inflate...from 1979 tu 2005=up 13%
thats 26 yeers folks
13% over 26 yeers=0.47%/yeer
aent that wunderful?
Inkum after flate rate: 2000-2008=-0.2%/yeer
June 2009: 18% av individual inkum=guvt handouts
95% av US inkum is yu hu liv in std metro areas
**** inkum, resent yeers, per persun
Total USA inkum, bilyun $
yeer inkum taxes left
2000 8,429.7 1,235.7 7,194.0
2002 8,881.9 1,051.8 7,830.0
2005 9,731.4 1,203.1 8,528.3
****** inkum Inkum per persun ("per capita" in krat speek)
disposable=after inkum taxes
yeer inkum disposabel inkum
then dol then dol 2000 dol
1960 2,277$ 2,022$ 9,735$
1970 4,090 3,587 13,563
1980 10,134 8,822 16,940
1990 19,500 17,131 21,281
1995 23,078 20,287 22,153
2000 29,847 25,472 25,472
2004 32,907 29,372 27,240
****** USA median inkum per houshold (US sensus buro)
yeer inkum
1992 30,600
1993 31,200
1994 32,300
1995 34,100
1996 35,500
1997 37,000
1998 38,900
1999 40,700
2000 42,000
2001 42,200
2002 42,400
2003 43,300
2004 44,800
2005 46,326
****** Inkum tax
see also...num fed tax file
inkum tax, in 1914 averaej tax=0.41$ (wen started now vershun)
& 1% av yu-all had nuff inkum tu need tu file tax form
tudae werkers on averaej werk 35% av theer time for Unkel Sam
bribes & kidbaks R taxabel or deduktabel if yer not konvikted
(taxabel if get bribe, deduktabel if yu pae it)
407. inkumbunt...the 1 running for reelekshun win 96% av the time in US
408. insekt
insekts hav 6 legs & exoskeletun (outside the body)
outside laer is chitin=lite & strong, but rigid & dont gro.
wen insekt gro, it hafta remuve the skin, expand, & gro nu skin.
no lungs...hav holes tu bring in aer.
Body hav 3 maen parts: hed, middel, belly. Legs kum outta
the middel.
most R small, sum so small yu kant see em (mites)
**** insekt dazeez
fli spred more dazeez than NE other anamal
mosqueto is 2nd
**** insekt ies: kompound ies=many small ies in 1 bubbel
kommon tu hav 25,000-50,000 ies in 1
Many insekts hav radikal differ yung & adult fazes:
aegs hatch intu a katapiller, then it sleep in a kukoon,
then hatch intu adult.
**** insekt heer, smell
many insekts heer with haers, mae be on legs, sumtimes all over
Most smell with antenna.
butterflies taest with theer reer feet.
Sum insekts make sound bi rub legs tugether.
**** insekt rekords: strong, jump, lift
grasshopper jump up 500 times its hite
ant kan lift 50 times its wate.
bee muve 300 times its wate. Bee see in ultraviolet
flee jump 200 times its length or 130 times its hite
**** insekt 400,000,000 yeers old.
**** insekt speeses
Siens hav found bout 1 milyun speeses av insekts=many more than
all other speeses. Find bout 10,000 more/yeer.
number insekts > number av all other animals
bout 200 milyun insekts per persun on erth
wate av insekts bout 12* wate av all humans
**** insekt bees kill more folk than snakes
Hous fli kant survive in Alaska...2 kold, but du fine on kitchen seeling.
Mosquitos luv the swamps in north half av Alaska & kum out in hoerds in summer.
praeing mantis is oenlee insekt that kan tern its hed
409. inshuer ("insurance" in krat speek)
kar inshuer, 2006, kost in sum sitees...$/yeer
Detroit 5,894 Roanoke, Vir 912$
Filly 4,440 Chattanooga 980
Newark 3,977 Nashvil 1,040
Nu York sitee 3,430 Green Bae 1,042
LA, Kalif 3,303 Rawlee, NK 1,057
fascinating facts
internet...see werld wide net
410. interstate..hiwae first had rule...1 mile in 5 gotta be strate
so Air Foers kan yuze it as emerjensee airstrip
411. invent... straenj invenshuns
propeller-drived rokking chaer (22 Jun 1882)...also kuel sitter
412. IRA Individual Retire Akkount...save munee tu liv on wen yu retire
num housholds that hav IRA, milyun
yeer num % av hh
2001 43.0 39.7%
2002 43.2 39.5
2003 46.1 41.4
2004 45.2 40.4
413. jae walker..."jae" meen a kuntree bumpkin...him dont no waes av sitee slikker
him dont no yer spozed tu kross street at korners.
414. jeens Humans hav 23 chromosomes & 31,000 jeens
1 jeen=a string (dubel helix) av kemikals bonded tugether (1 paer)
also kalled DNA. Kemikals kalled A, C, G, T (short vershun).
If yu rite out human DNA in letters, book size=200 Nu York Sitee fone books.
most human chromosomes hav 3.2 bilyun such paers
all humans hav 99.9% av theer jeens the same
for kinfolk, its bout 99.99%
chimps hav 96-99% same jeens as humans(depend on hu yu beleev).
1 Human chromosome hav 3.2 bilyun base paers av the kemikals.
sum amoebas hav 200 times the number av jeens as humans.
Heredity dazeezes R kauzed bi errer in 1 jeen. Siens no av 4000 such
dazeezes, but dont no wich jeen for many av em.
Siens no wot bout 50% av the jeens du...long parts av DNA R a mistree.
415. jeep stand for "jenral purpus" or JP
sum klaem if yu sae "jp" fast & shorten it, it sound like jeep.
416. jellyfish is 95% water, human is 90%
417. jerkwater town: In the 1870: Traens had steem lokomotivs that needed
tu stop & take on water faerly oft. Not many towns in the west.
The raelrode had tu put up water tanks weer theer was water.
Oft no town, or maby a small town gro up around the water tank.
Traen man had tu grab a rope tu muv the water pipe over the
enjin, then jerk on rope tu start the water flo.
418. Jerman Silver: is NOT jerman & NOT silver
Its alloy av Kopper+sum nikkel & zink
Nikkel make it look "silver"
419. jet Jet engins suk in birds...kost aerlines 1.2 bilyun $/yeer
(bout 10% brake parts inside engin, so gotta fix or replaes)
Big jet aerliner yuze 4,000 gallons av fuel tu take off
fascinating facts
420. job, jobs ("employment" in krat speek)
see also...werk
job trivia: 2000 thru 2009: 44% av the months, num US jobs went DOWN
USA: July 2008: 142.2 milyun jobs
47% av Amerikan werkers are "satisfied" with his job
firefiters R most satisfied
leest happy: gas pumpers
50% av werkers admit em went tu werk sik 1+ daes last yeer
***** job
US...74 % av men hav a job
61 % av wemen hav a job
Bi aej=38, werkers hav had averaej av 10.2 jobs
kollej grads: 10.6
guvt offis that kount this ignore all jobs B4 yu R 18
Thus 10 jobs in 20 yeers...averaej job last 2 yeers
England: more werk in Indian eeterees than
steel makers+koal mines+ship bild
421. June weddings: Bak in middel aejes, most folks took theer yeerly bath
in Mae. Look better & katch a bride bi June.
Brides karry flowers tu kuver the bad smell av 1 month sins bath.
422. Juneau, Alaska is bigger than state av Rode Ieland
but Sitka is bigger: 4,812 square mile
423. kab 90% av NY sitee kabees R wetbaks (& maby a fyu legal "immigrants")
Nu York Sitee hav 40,000 kab drivers & em drive 1 milyun miles/dae
Wi R kabs yello? Jon Hertz founded Yello Kab Kumpanee in 1907.
Him red study at Shekago Univ that sed yello is eezeeest tu see.
424. kaffeen ("caffeine" in krat speek) yunit=miligrams (mg)
US...adults take in bout 200mg kaffeen/dae, most in drinks
*** kandy...1 hershee milk choklut bar (1.5 owns)=10-20 mg kaffeen
bakers choklut=20-25 mg/owns choklut
semisweet choklut (or chok-chips)=28mg/owns
choklut chips...52mg/kup
*** soft dink...std kode=35mg per kan
pepsi-koke =37mg per kan
*** koffee, tee, koko mg in 1 kup (8 liquid owns)
tee =50
std koffee =85
espresso =40
instant koffee=65
"dekaf" koffee=3-25
koko (choklut)=20
*** pills
nodoz (std)=100mg, xtra strength=200
excedrin =130
425. kalamitee, natural=storm, flood, erthquake, volkano, see waves
natural kalamitees affect 1 person in 40 in averaej yeer
426. kalander ("Calendar" in krat speek)
Roman kalander="Julian"...Julius Seesar started it in 46BC
modern kalander="Gregorian"...started on 24 Feb 1582 on orders
from Pope Gregory. At the switch, luze 10 daes:
dae after 4 Oct 1582=15 Oct tu offset 1600 yeers errers.
Also muved nu yeers dae tu 1 Jan from 24 March
Roman kalander:
Maby evree 200 yeers a Roman bigwig tri tu adjust it tu offset
the akkumulated errers. Never werk very good.
Modern:
1 yeer=365.2425 daes (365 daes 5hr 49 min 12 sekond)
=31,556,952 sekonds, or 31,556,563 sekonds, or...
427. Kalifornya...If it was a kuntree, its GDP wood be 5th
Named for a mith plaes in book bi Farsee Ordonez de Montalvo (1502).
A supposed blak kingdom in the Amazon. Kalif was ieland next tu
Paradise.
State anamal=Kalif grizzly bare: last 1 died in 1922.
But in 1953, state adopt it.
428. kalorees...yu bern more kalorees asleep than watch TV
Guvt gage kalorees in food bi bern food in kloesed box with water around it.
heet inkreez water temperature. 1 gram water bi 1 deg sentigrade=1 small kaloree
big kaloree=1000 small kaloree. Food labels alwaes yuze big kalorees.
Humans kant digest all the food, so guvt extrapolate kalorees we get
from food bi assume we dont digest 2% av fat, 5% av karbs, & 8% av proteen.
kalorees in food...1 gram karbs=1 gram proteen=4 kalorees.
1 gram fat=9 kalorees.
429. kamal ("camal" in krat speek)
hav 3 ielids
kamel spit...watch out
store water in the hump(s): not as water.
1-hump ("dromedary" in krat speek) in Afrika.
2-hump kamel in China/Mongolia: kan karry 600 pounds
fascinating facts
430. kamra 1900...Eestman Kodak sell the Brownee kamra=now evreewon kan take pikchuers
431. kan
***** trivia: tipikal aluminum koke kan=13.5 grams...34 kans=1 pound
1810: Peter Durand av London invent metal kan="tin kan"
1846: nu masheens made kans faster & cheeper, so kans more kommon.
dontno time: plate kans with tin so em wont rust=wi em are oft kalled "tin kan".
sins then, make better steel alloys that dont rust, so kans dont hav tin tudae.
1855: rumers klaem Robert Yeets (English) invent kan opener
1858: Ezra Warnet invente kan opener (Amerikan)
1925: modern stile kan opener: weel & flaps yu tern tu muve the blade
1957: Aluminun kans. Sins then, make bout 3 trilyun al kans.
1959: Ermal Fraze invent a self-opening kan top.
1962: ring yu pull on tu open hole so kan drink from kan
1965: reseelabel kan top
432. kanal =waterwae for ships ("canal" in krat speek)
Panama kanal...4% av werld kargo gotu Panama kanal (2006)
Panama kanal kross Panama from Atlantik tu Pasifik. (Karibean see tu Pasifik)
United States bild it...started in 1903, open 15 August 1914
bout 50 miles long. Require loks (not at see level). Hav the biggest
loks tu that date...33 meters wide (110 ft) & 300 meters long (1000 ft).
The loks limit max ship size tu bout 65,000 tons av kargo. Required 15 mile kut
thru hills. Man-made lake in the middel. French tried tu bild see-level
kanal in 1881-1888 & faeled. Maen reesun...werkmen died av Yello Fever.
US took over in 1904 & spended 2 yeers tu get rid av mosquitoes. Took 7 yeers
more tu make the kanal. Had 65,000 werkers. Muved 200 milyun kubik yard
av dirt/rok. Biggest problem=Culebra kut. Had a lotta landslides.
Found that the slope av the faes av the kut gotta be a lot less than spekted.
2005 traffik: bout 14,000 ships/yeer=200 milyun tons av kargo.
save bout 8000 miles kompared tu go round tip av South Amerika
It take 9 ours tu go thru the kanal.
Suez kanal...tween Mediterranean See & Red See...& then tu eest av Afrika
101 miles long thru sand at see level. Bout 300 meters wide.
Bilt bi French kumpany, hedded bi Ferdinand de Lesseps. Opened in 1869.
British bi nuff stok tu get kontrol & then Brit Guvt take over.
Much later: Egypt nashunalize it (grab it & thro out all em foriners).
Kanal was bilded tu redues distans from Yerrop tu India & eest Indies.
Yu dont hafta go round Afrika & the Kape av good hope.
Tudae, its a maen roed for oil from Middel Eest tu Yerrop.
tween Arabia & Turkee, it save 10,000 miles.
****** trivia: big kruiz ships pae 250,000$ tu go thru Panama kanal
such ships pae 33% av fees the kanal take in
433. kandee ("candy" in krat speek, domestic confectionery industree in super-krat)
1894: Hershee found his kandee bar kumpanee.
1896: Leonard Hirschfeeld sell Tootsee Roll (nik name av his dotter)
????: Peter Paul Halijian make Mounds & Almond Joyame av his dotter)
1921: Babe Ruth kandee bar
Mars kumpanee make 30 milyun kandee bars/dae
US: spend 84$/(persun-yeer) on kandee
US: eet 25 pounds kandee/(persun-yeer)
choklut=11.6 pounds
Denmark=most kandee/persun
Switz =most choklut/persun
*** kandee bar grams owns kal kal/owns
3 musketeers 60 2.1 260 125
Baby Ruth 60 2.1 280 133
Hershee Choklut bar 43 1.6 230 144
Hershee Good bar 49 1.7 280 165
Milky Wae 61 1.6 280 175
Reese's cup 45 1.6 240 150
Snickers 59 2.1 280 135
York peppermint pat 42 1.5 170 115
*** USA "confectionery industry"...2000 holesale biz sell=15.8 bilyun $.
434. kangarue ("kangeroo" in krat speek)
marsupial=mammal without placenta...baby dont gro inside mother
limited tu Austrailya & part av Nu Gineea
hav big bak legs...hop & jump a lot, dont run.
kant walk bakward (dont walk).
kan hop at 25MPH for 1 mile.
hav a pouch the baby klimb intu & attach tu nippel.
baby born aft 32 daes...is primitiv...front legs half-formed so it kan kraw.
is blind, reer legs not started, hed barelee hav mouth.
stae in pounch bout 9 months & depend on mother's milk for 18.
435. kanser ("cancer" in krat speek)
1 in 4 will get kanser
USA kanser # sik die (2006)
total 1,372,910 564,830
prostate 234,460 27,350
brest 212,920 40,970
lung 174,470 162,460
kolonrektal 148,610 55,170 (yer gut...stomak & intestines)
bladder 61,420
lymphoma 58,870 18,840
uterus 41,200
pankreeus 33,730 32,300
liver 16,200
ovary 20,180 15,310
**
about 200 tipes av kanser
karsinagen=a thang that kauz kanser such as sig smoke
***** kauz kanser:
aej...the older yu R, the more likelee tu get it
famlee tree...yer jeens deside
sum R "predisposed"=more likelee tu get it
body immune...If yer immune "system" is bad, yer in trubel
AIDS...kill the body's immune system, so yu hav good chans tu get kanser
Fat (overwate) if yer 25+% overwate, sumwot more likelee tu get gut kanser ("intestines" in krat speek)
Food sum klaem yu kan prevent 1/3 av kanser if yu oenlee eet yukky food
good... fruit, veggees, fiber
Vitamins A, C, D, E
sum tipes av oil (but others R bad)
Bad...fat, red meet, alkohol
Food additivs...many banned kauz em sho kanser in rat tests (in VERY hi dose)
zampel...SACCHARIN got bad rep many refuze tu tuch it
but yu kan eet a pound a dae & die av old aej (or maby the stomak giv up)
Virus...Theer R a fyu viruses than kauz sum tipes av kanser
436. kapital: Madrid is oenlee kapital in Yerrop not on a river.
US: first kapital was in Nu York Sitee: 1785-1790.
Then Filly.
1800: muv kapital tu Wash DC
437. kapone Al Kapone's biz kard sed him was yuzed-furniture deeler
438. kar ("car" or "motor vehicles" or "auto" or "automobile" in krat speek)
***** kar...trivia:
1905: bigwig in London sed max number kars ever=4 milyun
kauz then werld will run outta shofuers
more kars in South Kalifornya than kows in India
If line up all kars in US, gotu Moon & bak
(see erlee histree belo)
USA 89% av adults hav a kar. Werld:8% hav a kar.
kar drive: US averaej persun drive 9 hrs/week=468 hrs/yeer
2007: averaej 13,000 miles/yeer-kar
times 250,000,000 kars=3.25*10**12 miles
kar mileage: USA average (kar+lite truks) gas mileage=17 mpg
17 mpg...1.912* 10**11 gallons/yeer (kars & lite truks)
June 2008 at 4$/gal, kar gas kost 765,000,000,000$/yeer
at 303,000,000 folks...kar gas kost 2,528$/persun-yeer
Ford f150=13mpg, Honda sivik=35mpg
If switch, save 629 gal/yeer at 4$/gal=2,516$/yeer
& that dont kount the cheeper bi pries & less depresheate
***** kar, lone, USA
2007: averaej kar lone: time span=5 yrs 4 months
45% length >=6yeers
averaej borro=30,738$
averaej $ oe on kar/truk=4,222$ more than it is werth
kan get lones up tu 8 yeers long
***** kar, number in USA
number kars in USA
1960 74,431,800
1970 121,242,295
1980 161,490,159
1990 193,057,315
2000 225,821,241
2004 243,023,485
number in USA (1999) 132 milyun kars+75 mil "lite truks"
+ 4.2 milyun motorsiekels...sum=211 mil
number lisened drivers=198,889,000
2000...12.5milyun nu kars sold in US
that inklude 2.3mil leesed (18%)
2000...42 milyun yuzed kars sold
14.2 milyun/yeer R skrapped
2.4% av nu kars R reprossed=deeler grab it bak
91% R bot "on time"=bier borro munee
nu kar bier keep the kar 5.5 yeers (averaej)
1/230 stold eech yeer
nu kar deelers...sell averaej av 785 kars/yeer
hav 11,560 servis orders
fuel: take bout 0.5 owns fuel tu start kar, 1.6 owns/minut tu idel
werldwide...450-590 milyun kars (2002) (depend on hu yu beleev)
***** kar, number hav, 1997
1. USA 129,749,000
2. Japan 46,869,000
3. Jermany 41,372,000
4. Frans 25,900,000
5. England 21,881,000
6. Kanada 13,217,000
7. Mexiko 8,607,000
***** kar, number make, 2005
kars kars+truks
1. USA 4,325,702 12,018,043
2. Japan 9,016,735 10,799,659
3. Jermany 5,350,187 5,757,710
4. Red China 3,111,103 5,648,972
5. S Korea 3,357,094 3,699,350
6. Frans 3,112,956 3,547,839
7. Spaen 2,098,168 2,753,856
8. Kanada 1,406,963 2,664,749
9. Brazil 1,930,608 2,458,469
10. England 1,596,296 1,806,359
***** kar, number sell in United States, 2005
1. Toyota Kamrae 431,703
2. Honda Akkord 369,293
3. Toyota Korolla 341,290
4. Honda Sivik 308,415
5. Datsun Altima 255,371
6. Shevee Impala 246,481
7. Shevee Kobalt 212,667
8. Shevee Malibu 203,503
9. Ford Bull 196,919 ["tarus" in Mexikan]
10. Ford Fokus 184,825
***** kar, number sell United States, past yeers
yeer number sell
kars truk + bus
1900 4,100 0
1910 181,000 215
1920 1,905,500 321,700
1930 2,787,400 575,300
1940 3,717,300 754,900
1950 6,665,800 1,337,100
1960 6,674,700 1,194,400
1970 6,546,800 1,692,400
**
** total domestik imported
1990 9,300,000 6,897,000 2,403,000
2000 8,698,000 6,831,000 2,016,000
2003 7,610,000 5,527,000 2,083,000
****** kar histree... (timeline)
1769 Nik Cugnot (Frans) made steem powered trike...8000 pounds.
4 passengers & du 2 MPH [yu kan walk faster]
1860 Etienne Lenoir (Frans) made kar that bern koel gas...0.5 HP.
1862 DeRochas invented the Otto siekel, but did not patent it.
1871 raes tween 2 steem kars in Wiskonsin, 200 miles, winner averaejed 6 MPH.
1876 Nik A Otto made gas enjin. Otto siekel same as modern gas enjins.
him got patent, but aft much kort fite it was throed out kauz DeRochas was first.
1886 Karl Benz (Jermany) kar with gas enjin (gasoline).
Many sae this is the first "praktikal" kar.
1892 Rudolf Diesel invented his enjin (different siekel).
1893 Duryea brothers bild first gas powered Amerikan kar, 4 HP.
1895 kar raes in Shekago, Winner=Frank Duryea, aver speed=7.5 MPH.
1896 Henree Ford bild & sell his first kar (200$).
1897 first Stanlee Steemer (steem enjin)
*** 1900
1902 Ransom Olds opened a faktree tu make kars, start tuward assemblee line.
1903 first kar trip kross US, NY tu San Fran, took 2 months, kost=8000$
1904 Henree Ford made first model T
made 15 milyun til 1927 (model A replaesed it)
1906 Rolls Roys Silver Goest...6 silenders...top notch luxury.
1906 first hedlite, bern keroseen.
1908 Ford make model T, kost=850$
1924 Ford Model T kost 265$. Ford werkers get 5$/dae...take 53 weeks tu make 265$.
first president tu ride in a kar...Theodor Roosevelt.
**
kar krash...If yu kauz sumwon els tu krash, leggally yu R in a krash
deth rate from kar krash=1.466 per 10,000 folks
439. kar legal...Nu York was first tu require yu tu get kar plates, 1901
kar plate: Nu Hampshire slogan "liv Free or Die" on the plate.
Prisuners make em.
fascinating facts
440. kar travel..US drove kars 2.965 trilyun miles in 2005...10,000 mile/persun
441. karate kame from Okinawa. Em invented it as wae tu fite Japs without weppons.
then Japs adopted it.
442. karbon dioxide
karbon-dioxide emit...how much K02 sum kuntrees make bi bern fuel
bilyun metrik tons/yeer
1997 2010
kuntree tons projekted
werld 5.832 8.146
USA 1.489 1.787
China .785 1.457
Rushya .411 dontno
Japan .296 0.331
India .245 0.385
Jermanee .233 0.257
England .150 0.175
Kanada .136 0.160
S Korea .120 0.157
1 web site sed US put out 24 tons k02/yeer-persun
Red China: fires in koel mines bern 200 milyun tons koel/yeer
& that put out as much k02 as all kars in United States.
443. kards
Valentine kards started in the 1400's.
444. Kasablanka (the muvee): Humpree Bogart was # 7 in list av akters the
studio tri tu get tu pae "Rik" Ronald Raegen was #1.
445. Kasanova...was a librarian & died in library weer him werked. (Bohemia)
446. Kash-out refinance
Kash-out is wen yu refinans the morgage & take out kash.
This meen yu inkreez yer debt...yu oe more on yer hous.
Starting in 2000, this bekame a fad=part av the housing bubbel.
Hous prieses went up like a ski rokket. Many jump on the rokket.
Take munee out & spend it...liv like yer rich. Then the party end.
Stats from Freddee Mak, 2007, quarter 2 (Apr-June)
Freddee define kash out as refi's weer nu balans is at leest 5% > old balans.
Kash-outs in Q2=76.7 bilyun $ (Freddee's part av it)...Thats the $ yu-all
took out, not the lone volume.
The "property" behind the morgage...pries went up averaej av 23%
from original morgage til the refi.
Quarter 2...refi's=42% av morgages (down from 46% in Q 1)
Resent yeers: quarter 1 refi's at Freddee Mak:
yeer % av refi's that take out kash
2000 80%
2001 53%
2002 61%
2003 41%
2004 42%
2005 64%
2006 86%
2007 83%
447. Kasino: werd originally ment danshall.
First kasino in modern sens=Monte Karlo, 1861
first Vegas kasino=Arazona Klub: 1911
448. kat kat sleep half the time
kat kant taest sweet (shugar)
wen kat fall off hi plaes, the hier the gooder. Siens klaem
kat need 70 ft tu reakt & get redee tu land.
kat yuze tael tu tern uprite=put down feet.
kat lite nuff, it reech "terminal" speed in bout 50ft.
***** kat speed: max=cheeta=46 MPH (fastest human=18 mph)
***** blak kat...superstishun sae blak kat=bad luk
starting in 1500's in Yerrop, theer was periodik witch skares.
siekels av bern the witches at the stake.
NE old, uglee woman kood be a "witch", or NE-won sumwon got a grudj ginst.
old woman, oft had a pet kat. So dum folk klaem the kat help the witch.
many thank em oenlee tern intu witches at nite.
next rumor is the witch chaenj intu a kat at nite...a blak kat.
***** kat outta the bag=slang for tell a sekret or lues lip let slip sekret.
kum from time wen moslems okkupied part av Italy & prohibit pork (pigs).
blak market sell pork hid in bags.
But krooks sumtimes hav a kat in bag insted av pork.
In mishap, sak sumtimes fall open & kat jump out.
***** katgut is string made from sheep guts
449. ketchup 4 tabelspoons ketchup hav food value av 1 medium tomato
fascinating facts
450. kidnees filter 1 liter blood/minut
451. kids ("child" or children in krat speek)
***** kid max kids: 69 for 1 mother...16 twins, 7 triplets, 4 4's
***** kid trivia: "middel klass famlee" spend 182,000$ on eech kid bi aej=17
(US Farm Dept sed so)
averaej US kid get 230$/yr pokket chaenj
half the population av werld make less than that (inkum/yeer)
20% av kids R in povertee; for most, the famlee dont hav a father-at-home.
kids born tu yung mom liv longer
***** kid kost tu raes 1 kid thru first 17 yeers (US Farm dept)
if yer cheep, lo-down sun-av-a gun...182,920$
middel 250,530
eleetists 366,020
& yu thot the guvt liv on a planet in sum other yunivers!
***** kid skuel-aej kid=aejes 5-17...18.3% av yu-all (2004)
= 53,269,000 kids
91.1% av kids gotu skuel
***** kid number in skuel ("enrollment" in krat speek)
yeer total grade 0-8 9-12 kolleej
1999 68,096,000 38,323,000 14,891,000 14,881,000
***** kid birth (laber in krat speek)...first kid laber averaej 13 ours
see also...birth
452. Kilt dont kum from Skotland.
1600BC: Egypt nobels weer it.
Roman soldyers wore kilts made av lether & sum metal.
Histreeans thank skots got it from the Romans.
453. Kings & queens
King Authur
Richard 1 av England
wife av Richard the lion harted was never in England...staed in Italy.
Queen Elizabeth 1 never left England. Longest trip=111 miles.
was bald (from smallpox). Had 3000 dresses.
King Jorj 1 did not speek englis...Jerman & french
kame from Havover, Jermany. (English invited him
wen english line didnt hav a kid)
Jorj 3 was neer-sited very bad but yuzyually refuzed tu weer glasses
Kleopatra married her brother Ptolemy.
Luis 14 av Frans had 413 beds, 1,000 wigs (& 40 full time wig makers)
454. king kong...in original muvee, king kong was a 18 inch dummy.
455. Kleopatra...tested poisons on slaves
456. klok kum from French "cloche"=bell
***** klok trivia: broke klok is rite 2 times a dae
Erlee man judjed time bi weer in ski the sun is.
Next, bi weer in ski stars R. Then planets.
4236bc Egypt no yeer hav 365 daes.
2000bc Babylons kalendar hav moon months...alternate 29 daes/30 daes
Egypt sun klok...shado from oblisk tu tell time-av-dae.
1500bc Egypt sun dial...man size, dezined just tu kount ours during the dae.
600bc Egypt...first astronomikal tool="merkhet" tu find north bi look at Polaris
then note wen vareeus stars kross the north-south line tu gage time at nite.
500bc Sumerians had 30-dae months. dae divided intu 12ths.
325bc water kloks R kommon in Grees. Tri tu get konstant suppli av water drops.
first tipe yu kan yuze dae or nite.
In later yeers, had water muve mechanikal devises tu sho the time.
1300 Italy...mekanikal watch tower tu sho the time
wate provide power.
1504 first portabel "time pees"...Peter Henlein (Jermany)
spring provide power.
1577 Jost Burgi invented the minut hand (b4 that kloks had 1 hand...the our)
however, gotta wate til 1670 for maenline kloks tu add the minut hand.
1650 (or theerabout) Blais Paskal make wrist watch
tie pokket watch tu wrist with string
1656 Christian Huygens invent pendulum klok (more akkurat)
off bi 1 minut/dae=much more akkurate than NE prior klok.
1675 Christian Huygens made balans weel with spring...akkurat tu 10 sekond/dae
1761 Jon Harrison, Englan, "marine" "chronometer" tu gotu see in ships.
Akkurat tu 0.1 sek/dae.
put in box so ship roll & pitch wont bother it.
1787 Alarm Klok (mechanikal), Levi Hutchins av Konkord, Nu Hamp.
Seth E Thomas patent alarm klok that kan be set tu ring wen yu want.
yuze wind-up spring tu power klok.
1921 "free pendulum" klok for yuze bi astronomers. the "shortt klok"
1923 self-winding watch...Jon Harwood, Switzerland
1927 Warren Marrison at Bell Labs made Quartz kristal klok.
1949 Atomik klok...yuze mikrowave resonans in ammonia tu gage time.
1957 Cesium based atomik klok...bekame ofishal guvt wae tu gage time.
1967 sekond redefined tu be 9,192,631,770 ossilashuns av cesium atom.
This is now the standard sientifik wae tu gage time.
Akkurate nuff tu gage how erth rotate slo down kauze av tide drag.
1972 Universal Time defined. Yuze atomik klok.
Wen time based on erth rotate diverj from UT bi 1 sekond, yuze leep sekond
tu adjust UT.
457. kloud
**** kloud is water, water is heveeer than aer...so wi dont kloud fall?
It du fall, but very slo. Averaej water drop is 1 milimeter akros.
such small drops hav big area tu wate raeshio, so aer drag slo em down.
Klouds evaporate & rekondens all the time...size & shape chaenj.
Xtra true for kulumus klouds...thunderstorm makers.
** tipikal kumulus kloud hav 500 tons av water init
Note...hi Sirrus klouds R ies, not water...tiny ies kristals.
**** "on kloud 9"=slang for happy
kloud tipes was numbered bi how hi up em form, 1=at surfus, 9=hiest kloud.
thus, kloud 9 is as hi as yu kan get.
458. klub theer is a klub in Pennsylvania...yer name gotta be "Jim Smith" tu join.
theer R 1.3 milyun Smith's in USA
459. kode Julius Seesar invented the Seesar Sifer=oldest kode we no av
460. koest ("Coastal Counties" in krat speek)
Land the US guvt define as "coastal"
area =888,000 square mile=25% av US
number folks=152,900,000= 53% av US population (2003)
fascinating facts
461. koff ("cough" in krat speek)
wi du liquid koff medasin hav alkohol? No...not tu get yu drunk.
kauz the drugs dont dissolv good in water.
but the stuff is oenlee 5% alkohol...thats nuff.
Koff aer speed=60 MPH
462. koffee is a cherry tree & the "been" is a cherry=a seed
eech koffee tree make 1-1.5 pounds/yeer av green "beens"
= bout 2000 "beens"
Take 5 yeers from plant seed til make first "been".
US...52% drink koffee (maby 80% av adults)
US drink 400 milyun kups av koffee/yeer
Skandinavia drink most...26 pounds av ground/yeer
463. koin
**** koin trivia...defaes or kounterfit a koin=deth bi hanging (1792 law)
quarter hav 199 ridjes round the rim In old daes, quarter
was made from silver. krooks sliesed around rim tu get free silver.
ridjes added tu stop this (dime, quarter, & half-dollar)
silver doller hav raesed flanj around the rim insted.
**** koin
US mints at Denver & Filly make normal (circulation) koins
(www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/coins_production)
2006 united states circulating koin production
1-sent 8,234 milyun penny
5 1,502 nikkel
10 2,828 dime
25 2,941 quarter
50 4.4 50-sent pees
100 7.7 dollar
sum= 15.517 bilyun koins
San Fran & West Point mints make kollekter koins
2000 US mints made 28 bilyun koins.
This inklude 1.286 bilyun 1$ koins
wen was last time yu seed a US 1$ koin?
2006 state quarters 2,925,400,000 made
2007 washington 1$ koin 340,360,000
(I hav never seed 1 as av Aug 2009)
**** koin kost
penny: 2007: kopper pries so hi, kost guvt more than 1 sent tu make penny
nikkel:kost 7.5 sents tu make. metal init kost 5.6 sents
**** koin histree
First US koin=silver dollar, 15 Oct 1794
In old daes, dimes, quarters, & half-dollar had silver in em.
Rim shavers was a problem. Penee=kopper dont hav this problem.
silver dollar hav bout 0.93 troy owns av silver (alloi with 10% kopper)
US also made a "trade dollar" that had 1 owns av silver for yuze
in Aesya (mostlee China).
Gold koins: US made gold koins 1849 intu 1933 wen FDR outlaw gold
FDR told guvt tu konfiskate all gold (that inklude koins)
illegal for yu tu hav gold til Nixon legalize it agin.
**** gold koins
1,5,10,20$ gold koin. 10$="eegel", 20$="dubel eegel"
20$ gold koin bout same size as 1$ silver dollar.
Gold koins hav flanj round the rim insted av ridjes.
forin gold & silver koins was legal in US til 1857
Tudae: both guvt & privut mints make koins for kollekters
in silver or gold. All kost much more than the faes value.
privut koins R kalled "rounds"
sell em for wotever em kan get.
Guvt kollekter koins disapeer: yu never see em in "circulation".
464. koinsidens 2 or more thangs happen, so unlikelee it is stranjer than fikshun
zampel...Jon Adams & Tom Jefferson died on the same dae...4 July 1826
=50 yeers aft deklare Independens
465. koke first sold 8 Mae 1886, drug store in Atlanta. Was green.
And had a kork. Wen take out kork, it pop. Maby thats the
start av slang "pop" for "soda"...koke.
sellers klaemed it was "medisimal" & kure all sorts av ills
USA drink 50 gallons/person-yeer av koke (karbonated shugar water)
(600 12-owns kokes)
krats insist yu gotta sae "kola". Evreewon sae "koke" or "pop".
q1952: Diet koke "no-kal Beverage"
466. kokonut ("coconut" in krat speek)
wen a kokonut fall off tall palm, it hit ground (or yer hed)
at 44 MPH. bout 150/yeer die from kokonut on hed.
Werld output=20 bilyun/yeer
467. kokroech liv 2 weeks aft yu kut off its hed, starv tu deth
468. kold (the flu-like dazeez yu get in nose/throet, ies)
kold is infekshus dazeez spred bi koff, sneez, & tuch
Medikans sae bout 200 tipes av viruses kauz it
most kommon spred "vekter"...tuch sumthang & get virus, then tuch ie or nose
estimated 1 bilyun kolds/yeer in US (3-4 per persun)
52 milyun kids (aej <=16) get 1+ kolds eech yeer in USA
US spend 5 bilyun $/yeer on pills, spraes, ets tu fite kolds
+ 3 bilyun $/yr for the dokter
+ 2 bil for stuff dokter tell yu tu du
5.5 milyun dokter visits/yeer tu fite kold
warning...this impli dokter visit kost 545$...it dont kost THAT much
lost time...
miss skuel=60 milyun persun-dae/yeer kauz av kolds
werk= 50 milyun persun-dae/yeer
469. koler 7% av men R koler-blind, wemem: 1%
most kommon tipe=red & green look the same
human ie kan tell apart 10,000,000 kolers
fascinating facts
470. kolleej 56% av students R female (2000)
66% av students R full time
64% hav a job
57% av masters gotu females
1998: 15,546,000 kollej kids...7.4% av US populashun
Averaej pae av kolleej teech=56,000 $ (1999)
profeffer=71,000$, "instructer"=33,000$
471. komiks: Hu was the first tu talk? Alwaes is the 1 on the left.
472. kommershals...Wi R kommershal so loud? wi so strident? wi so shril?
Kauz the kumpanees that pae for em insist.
The sellers R positiv that annoying sell, irritating sell.
"obnoxus sell" is theer moto
yu mae remember nies kommershals, but em dont muve the stuf (sellers dont rake in the $s)
Em also yuze lektronik stuff tu make shure em stae loud all the time
(normal talk or sing hav lo & hi, soft & hard, ets)
Oenlee hope is...make shuer the "mute" button on yer remote werk.
473. kommission (commissions in krat speek)
US reel estate kommissions:
2005: 68 bilyun $
2007: 55 bilyun $
474. kommute (how yu get tu werk..."commute" in krat speek)
88% drive a kar & 76% av em=1 persun in the kar
averaej drive tu werk take 24.3 minuts
tipikal werker kommute 100 hrs/yeer
475. komplaen (gripe)
2006 komplaents tu feds (www.ftc.gov or 1-877-382-4357)
1. id theft =250,000=36%
2. shop at home = 46,995
3. sweepstakes = 45,587
4. internet & puters= 41,243
5. internet aukshuns= 32,832
70% had a "negativ expeereeans" in 2005...study sed so
40% sed the kumpanee did absolutelee nuthang bout the komplaent
average time tu "resolv a komplaent"...4 ours.
476. konstitushun...US is first tu rite down on paper the basik rules for guvt
477. kost "kost yu a arm & a leg" kum from 1700's wen no kamras.
Oenlee was for a pik was pae a paenter tu paent yer pik.
Paenters charjed for eech arm & eech leg.
Thus kommon tu hav person(s) sit behind desk or tabel tu
hide the legs. Or wemen weer dress that hide legs.
478. konsumers...United States
"konsumer units"...US guvt sae=housholds+kids awae at kollej
yeer how many inkum B4 tax spend aej persuns erners kars
2003 115,356,000 51,128$ 40,817$ 48.4 2.5 1.3 1.9
2004 116,282,000 54,453 43,395 48.5 2.5 1.3 1.9
2005 117,356,000 58,712 46,409 48.6 2.5 1.3 2.0
spend=5.446 trilyun $/yeer
servae: tipikal houshold pae sumthang 58 times a month
regular monthly bills: pae 49% with cheks, 24% online (2005)
479. kontinent
see also...oeshuns
area, sq mile %
Aesya 17,212,000 30.0% (asia in krat speek)
Afrika 11,608,000 20.3
No Amerika 9,365,000 16.3
So Amerika 6,880,000 12.0
Anartika 5,100,000 8.9
Yerrop 3,837,000 6.7 (Europe in krat speek)
Austrailia 2,968,000 5.2 (inklude neerbi ielands)
werld land= 57,308,738
see area= 138,236,600
fascinating facts
480. kootee Biologists ofishal name for 1 spesifik tipe av lies
kommon man yuze "cootie" as slang for NE bad insekt
481. kops USA hav kops (2005 data)
673,146 kops
295,924 "sivilyun" werkers (klerks)
sum=969,070
spred kros 14,291 "enfoersment ajensees"
482. kopyrite Mass pass a kopyrite law in 1672
483. Korduroy Kloth with ridjes & vales along the long direkshun.
Yuzeyually kottom. Kum from French: "kord du roi"=kings kloth.
484. Korea The Korea war is bi guvt dekree a "polees akshun"
06 Sep 2007: president Brush sae him wont end the korean war til
North Korea end its nuclear bomb projekts.
485. kottage chees...Weers the kottage in the cheez?
rumer hav it...farmers made in in theer farm hous in middel aejes.
kottaej is nuther werd for hous.
486. kountee USA hav 3,141 kountees (US sensus buro)
(different sorses giv diff kount)
Delaware=3 kountees, Texas=254
Rich kountees (as av 2000, US sensus buro)
inkum/persun ("per kapita" in krat speek)
USA 21,587$
1. Marlin Kountee, Kalif 44,962
2. Nu York Sitee 42,922
3. Falls Cherch, Virjin 41,052
4. Pitkin, Kolo 40,811
5. Fairfeeld, Konn 38,350
487. kow USA milk kow...averaej output=19,500 pounds av milk/yeer.
60 kows make 1 ton av milk/dae
most kows last 5-6 yeers, then output dekreez & its off tu the slotterhous.
bout 1 bilyun kows on erth
kow hav swet glands in nose & noweer els
***** kow graze 8 ours/dae=eet grass...100 pounds/dae.
dont hav front upper teech.
Gotta hav bacteria in guts tu dizest gras.
4 stumaks: rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum.
Rumen=biggest. Food ferment theer.
***** kow kows fart 100 milyun tons av methane/yeer
Methane is much stronger greenhous gas than Karbon dioxide.
**** wen is a kalf a kow? wen it eet grass insted av milk...bout 7 months.
kattel kings kall em "yeerling" wen 1 yeer old.
but normal folk kall a kow a kow & thats no bull.
**** Wi du kattel krossing werk?
Kauz kows R afraed tu step on sumthang that dont seem solid.
even wite lines on asfalt will du.
***** kow Yu kan leed kow upstaers but not downstaers.
488. kraeon 5 bilyun made eech yeer (crayon in krat speek)
489. kranberry: is ripe wen yu kan dribbel it like basketball.
fascinating facts
490. krap: Modern flush toilet named for Tom Krapper (England)
28 Sep 1836-1910. Him did NOT invent the flush toilet.
But him made it popular & krapper kum tu simbolize the toilet.
Krapper invented the ball floet that tern off the water
wen water in tank rise tu rite hite.
Brits invent all sorts av slang terms for it such as "loo".
Dont no weer em get the silly guvt werd nowon ever yuze.
1596: Joe Bramah in Yorkshire, England invent a "WC" (Brit for
"water kloset"). Oenlee Brits yuze such silly werds.
1852 Ed Jennings get patent for a flush tekneek.
1885 Prins Edward bi krappers & make em faemus. (later king Edward)
491. kredit
Feb 2009: US "konsumer kredit"=2.56 trilyun $, down 7.5 bil from Jan
(Fed Rezerv)
1730: first nuzpaper ad for kredit in USA
Christofer Thorton sell furniture & yu pae weekly
1920..."shoppers plate" store chaen offer first simbel av kredit
1950...Diners klub offer a kard (paper) so yu kan charj at 27 restaurants in NYS
yu had tu pae off the balans eech month, had tu bi the kard.
Later it charj interest. Now we hav bout 4 kredit kards/persun in USA.
****
US kredit, Trilyun $
yeer total houshold morgages konsume kredit
1974 2.0699 0.680 0.4193 0.2019
1975 2.2618 0.734.3 0.4590 0.2070
1980 3.9535 1.39603 0.9265 0.3580
1985 7.1232 2.2778 1.4496 0.6106
1990 10.8367 3.5978 2.5057 0.8244
1995 13.6738 4.8567 3.3344 1.1682
2000 18.1836 7.0107 4.8209 1.7413
2005 26.7762 11.7633 8.8757 2.3139
2006 29.2014 12.9678 9.8729 2.4183
2007 31.7234 13.8485 10.5427 2.5543
492. kredit kard
***** hiest kredit kard interest rate=80% (17 Des 2009): First Premier Bank
6 Apr 2009: averaej KK interest rate=14.17%
Mar 2009: US banks kanseled 20 milyun kredit kards
Des 2008: USA: KK kumpanees 2008 profit=30 bilyun $
Des 2008: USA: "konsumer" KK debt=972.73 bilyun $
Averaej houshold KK debt=8,329$
Averaej for HH that hav 1+ kredit kards: 10,679$ (Nilson servae)
Averaej per KK=1,157$
2008: US KK kumpanees take awae 8 milyun kredit kards in 2008
& drop the level av "approved" debt bi 320 bilyun $
***** trivia: bout 16,000 kumpanees in USA issue kredit kards
***** biggest kredit kard: Amerikan Express hav 86 milyun kards out
holders charj 650 bilyun $/yeer
Amex aem its pitch at rich folks hu spend more
***** Averaej balans on kredit kard: ($ per kard)
1972 600$
2005 7,300 $ or 8,940$ (different soers)
Jan 2006 9,159 $ per kard holder
2008: debt=9,840 $/houshold (was 2,966$ in 1990)
24% av kk holders alwaes hav balans (never pae it off)
***** 60% in US pae off KK balans evree month (but mae slip up now & then)
Kard kumpanees kall yu "dedbeets" kauz em dont make as much munee
***** kredit kard debt:
2002: 211 bilyun $
2007: 915 bilyun $ (Des 2007)...
March 2008: USA kk debt=957 bilyun $, up 8% from 2007
kunsumer kredit: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/....
"revolving kredit"=943.5 bilyun $ (2007)...37% av total debt
(most av it is kredit kard)
***** kredit kard default: 5.41 % R late (June 2008) up from 4.4% yeer ago
***** kredit kard fee
Most KK issuers kan chaenj the rules, fees, penaltees, interest rate
NE-time & dont hafta hav a reesun.
If yer late with 1 paement, most KK's inkreez yer interest rate
If yu get neer yer kredit limit, many kards inkreez the interest rate
"yuniversal default"...If yu get behind on pae bills tu NE-1, yer
kredit kard kan raes yer interest rate even tho yu paed it on time.
Sum KK's sae yer paement gotta be processed bi 10 AM on the due date
even if yer chek sat unopened 5 daes in KK's in hopper,
& em no mael man bring the mael in the afternoon.
If yu get a kash-advans, the % interest is hier than charj it, &
interest start wen yu get the kash, not after due date.
KK mae charj yu a fee tu du: kash advans, transfer munee, pae bi fone,
yuze KK oversees
***** kredit kard interest:
Kredit Kards hav hiest interest rate av NE lone a normal persun
ever hav...tipikal is bout 18%. Sumtimes up tu 36%.
Oenlee thang hier is "paedae" debt or yer freendlee mafia goon.
Tipakal famlee pae 1,200$/yeer interest on KK charjes
Sep 2009: averaej KK % interest=13.71% (was 11.94% in 2008)
***** kredit kard kost:
wen yu add interest, KK bi kost 112% more than kash
If yu pae minimun, tipikal KK take 22 yeers tu pae off balans,
provided yu never agin charj NE-thang. Interest=2.3 times $'s yu charjed.
servae: 23% admit em maxed-out evree KK em hav
11% was dunned bi kollekt ajensee
13% was 30+ daes late tu send in monthlee $ (1 or more times)
***** kredit kard limit
Sep 2009: in last 12 months, KK kumpanees kut kredit limit
from 4.6 Trilyun $ tu 3.4 tril
***** kredit kard loss & riteoffs
Okt 2007: Kredit Kard kumpanees rite off 961 milyun $
as beyond hope av ever get theer munee.
Kredit Kard debt >=30 daes late=17.3 Bilyun $
=4% av KK debt
10% hav ben 1+ paements behind on a kredit kard (servae)
Des 2007: 7.6% av KK akkounts R 60+ daes late
2006: 6.4% R late
*** number kredit kards
Sep 2009: USA: 555 milyun KK akkounts, down 72 mil in 1 yeer
=down 18% from 2008
US hav 1.5 bilyun {kredit+debit+gift} kards (5 per persun)
averaej adult 8.6 kards
158 milyun in USA hav 1+ kredit kards (50% av populashun)
***** kredit kard offers
Banks spend 2 bilyun $/yeer in USA to send out "solisitations"
2008, quarter 1...30% av offers target yung that R behind on pae theer bills
KK offer speshal lo rate on $ yu transfer from other KK?
but if yu yuze theer kard, the rate is much hier, maby 30%
& wen yu send in $, it go tuward the lo% debt.
***** kredit kard penaltees
KK's charj yu a "fee" or penaltee if
yer paement is processed late (even tho it got tu em in time)
go abuv yer kredit limit. Note: KK let yu duit so em kan get munee.
KK kood stop yu so yu kant go abuv limit, but em dont.
***** kredit kard profit
2006:
kard kumpanee profit=16 bilyun $
penaltees users paed=14.8 bilyun $
fees = 3.5 bilyun $
2007:
penaltees 18.1 bilyun $
***** Spend on Kredit Kard:
Wen yu get kredit kard, yu spend 23% more (US averaej)
9% got nuther kredit kard tu pae off debt on old kredit kard
bout 20% av kard holders max out evree KK em hav (estimate)
bout 24% av "personal expenditures" (spend) in on {kredit+debit+"retail"}kard
***** kredit kard transakshuns...big sekret, kard kumpanees wont sae
*** estimates from servaes & studees (2005-2006)
debit kards: 19.7 bilyun trans at 37$=729 bilyun $
Kredit kars: 19.1 bil at 84$ 1,604 bil
493. kredit Report=rekords av yer past borro & pae histree
25% av kredit reports hav seereeus errers...bad nuff bank
will deni yu a lone if yu want 1.
494. kredit skore: a kumpany rate how good yu pae bak lones.
USA averaej kredit skore=661 or 693 (2008)(depend on hu yu beleev)
Yu get a number grade based on yer spend & borro histree.
Original skore was from Fair Isaak Korp. It keep rules sekret &
oenlee giv out "the number". For many yeers it was the oenlee
plaes that rate yu with a number skore. Then it tell.
Now, 3 biggest kredit raters (kredit buro) put out a FICO skore.
If yu wanna borro munee (get lone), bi hous, get kredit kard,
the biz first chek yer skore (grade, number). Yu gotta
be abuv a minimun number (kutoff skore) tu get sumthang.
max skore=850
13% hav 800+
27%: 750-800
18%: 700-750
15%: 650-700
12%: 600-650
Eech banker hav a "kutoff skore": if yer belo that, him wont lone
yu munee. Kommon kutoff=600.
The hier the number (skore), the more likely yu get a lone.
With hier skore, banker yuzeyually offer loer interest rate.
Or mae loer the points him charj yu.
With skore=800+, yu mite get morgage for 6.4%
At skore=550, if yu kan get morgage at all, interest=9-15%.
495. kremlin is Rushyun for fort.
496. krime most krime is up wen moon is full. But not murder.
2005: 978,120 kars stold ("motor vehicle theft" in krat speek)
******* krime *****
violent =murder, rape, robbery, assault
property=burglar, theft, steel kar
yeer total violent property
1957 1,422,000 199,000 1,224,000
1960 2,020,000 286,000 1,734,000
1970 5,581,000 733,000 4,848,000
1980 13,409,000 1,345,000 12,064,000
***
1990 14,476,000 1,820,000 12,656,000
1995 13,863,000 1,799,000 12,064,000
1998 12,476,000 1,531,000 10,945,000
2000 11,608,000 1,425,000 10,183,000
2003 11,817,000 1,381,000 10,436,000
**
*** ******* krime rate bi area...2003 *****
1%: 1 krime per yeer per 100 populashun
United States Metro Area sitees rural
rate=4.75% 5.17% 3.85% 2.02%
**
*** ******* violent krime rate bi sitee, 2003 *****
(number krimes reported tu kops in 1 yeer/populashun)
Tueson Ara 9.191%
Okla Sitee Ok 9.123
Alanta Jorj 8.869
Memfis Tenn 8.494
Seattel Wash 8.035
Dallas Tex 7.957
Kansas Sit Mo 7.953
Kolumbus ohio 7.758
Portland Oreg 7.694
Detroit Mish 6.985
Nashvil Tenn 6.965
Tulsa Okla 6.919
Miami Flor 6.909
San Antone, Tex 6.844
Sharlot NK 6.667
Sakramento Kali 6.427
Milwaukee Wisk 6.360
Albuquerque, NM 6.249
Omaha Nebr 6.102
Mesa Ara 5.985
Hueston Tex 5.879
Baltimore Mary 5.813
******* krime...Madrid
31 Okt 07...Madrid traen terrerists...giltee & sentensed tu 43,000 yeers in prisun
497. krokadile swallo food hole...it dont chu
kroks kill more folks than lions
tu exkape from krok, push yer thumbs intu its ie
provided it dont chomp off yer hands first
sperts klaem it kant maneuver good on land...if 1 chase yu, run zig-zag
(yu du trust sperts with yer life dont yu?)
498. kromwell, Oliver: Brits hanged him 2 yeers aft him died
499. krops
see also...farm
til 1883, Hemp was biggest farm krop
Jorj Washington groed hemp & Ben Franklin made paper from it
US farm output, 2005
krop bilyun $/yeer trilyun tons/yeer
1. korn 32.56254 280.228 ("maize" in krat speek)
2. beef 23.04064 11.140 ("indigenous kattel meet" in krat)
3. milk 21.31509 80.150 ("Kow milk, hole, fresh" in krat)
4. chicken 18.69771 16.030 ("indigenous chicken meet" in krat)
5. soybeens 18.04566 82.820
6. pork 9.17967 9.065 ("indigenous pig meet" in krat)
7. weet 8.90732 57.105 ("wheat" in krat)
8. aegs 4.62758 5.330 ("hen eggs" in krat speek)
9. tomatoes 3.02465 12.766
10. grapes 2.97574 6.415
11. potatoes 2.77206 19.111
12. trukee 2.68871 2.460 ("indigenous turkey meet" in krat)
13. ries 1.13270 10.012 ("paddy rice" in krat)
14. lettus 1.69204 4.976 ("lettuce" in krat)
15. oranj 1.45271 8.266 ("oranges" in krat)
**
***** krops: United States output av refined farm krops
US flour barrel=196 pounds
US beer barrel=31.5 US gallons, bout 117 liters
flour shugar beer
yeer milyun bilyun bilyun
barrels pounds barrels
1860 39.8 0.788
1865 42.5 0.733
1870 47.9 1.196
1875 54.4 1,542
1880 64.3 1.988
1885 74.0 2.912
1890 83.3 3.233 30.50
1900 105.8 4.858 39.5
1910 107.2 7.317 59.5
1920 130.4 9.478 9.2
1930 123.6 12.376 3.68
1940 110.9 12.098 54.89
1950 115.4 14.665 88.81
1960 130.4 16.710 94.55
** In Yerrop, beer barrel=50 liters
** oil barrel=42 gallons
** Brits hav several "barrels" with yuneek sizes
***** United States Farm krop prieses
1967=100
yeer pries
1913 43.7
1915 43.7
1916 51.7
1917 78.9
1918 90.6
1919 96.4
**
1920 92.2
1921 55.7
1922 57.4
1923 60.4
1924 61.1
1925 67.1
1926 61.3
1927 60.8
1928 64.8
1929 64.1
**
1930 54.2
1931 39.7
1932 29.5
1933 31.4
1934 40.0
1935 48.1
1936 49.5
1937 52.9
1938 42.0
1939 40.0
**
1940 41.4
1941 50.3
1942 64.8
1943 75.0
1944 75.5
1945 78.5
1946 90.9
1947 109.4
1948 117.5
1949 101.6
**
1950 106.7
1951 124.2
1952 117.2
1953 106.2
1954 104.7
1955 98.2
1956 96.9
1957 99.5
1958 103.9
1959 97.5
**
1960 97.2
1961 96.3
1962 98.0
1963 96.0
1964 94.6
1965 98.7
1966 105.9
1967 100.0
1968 102.5
1969 108.8
werld wide farm krops (agricutural {commodities, produce, production} in krat)
tomatoes=60 milyun tons/yeer
banana 44 mil
fascinating facts
500. kross yer fingers...spozed tu bring good luk.
started bi erlee Kristians as sekret wae tu make the sine av the kross.
em was persukuted a lot, so didnt want tu draw tenshun.
501. kuff on pants for many yeers pant legs had yuzeless kuffs...bottom terned up tu katch trash.
around 1880 in hi-sosiety wedding in Nu York, English Nobelman=big wig
street had puddels, so him roll up pant legs so em wont get wet.
evreewon see it & kopy it. Dum klods thot it was hi fashun in England.
so we suffer thru 100 yeers with junk on pant legs.
502. kumpanee (corporations in krat speek)
biggest US kumpanees in 2005
"gross revenue"=bilyun $ em take in in 2005
take in profit
1. Exxon 339.938 36.13
2. Wal mart 315.654 11.23
3. Jenral Motors 192.604 -10.60
4. chevron 189.481 14.10
5. Ford 177.210 2.02
6. Konoko 166.683 13.53
7. Jenral Lektrik 157.153 16.35
8. Sitigruep(bank) 131.045 24.59
9. Amerikan Inter 108.905 10.48
10. IBM 91.134 7.93
503. kuntree ("national" in krat speek)
hiest=Tibet...averaej hi=14,800 ft (4500 meter)
***** "yerropeon Yuenyun" num folks=490,426,000 (July 2007)
kuntrees ranked bi number folks (2007)
1. Red China 1,321,851,888
2. India 1,129,866,154
3. United States 301,139,947
4. Indoneesya 234,693,997
5. Brazil 190,010,647
6. Pakistan 164,741,924
7. Bengal 150,448,339
8. Rushya 141,377,752
9. Nigeria 135,031,164
10. Japan 127,433,494
11. Mexiko 108,700,891
12. Filippines 91,077,287
13. Vietnam 85,262,356
14. Jermany 82,400,996
15. Egypt 80,335,036
16. Ethiopia 76,511,888
17. Turkee 71,158,647
kuntrees ranked bi area (size) sq mile
1. Rushya 6,562,112
2. Red China 3,600,946
3. United States 3,537,437
4. Kanada 3,511,023
5. Brazil 3,265,077
6. Austraelya 2,941,299
7. India 1,147,955
8. Argentina 1,056,642
9. Kazakstan 1,030,816
10. Algeria 919,595
small kuntrees area, sq mile
1. Vatikan 0.44
2. Monako 1
3. Nauru 8
4. Tuvalu 10
5. San Marino 24
6. Leichtenstein 62
7. Marshal Ielands 70
8. Saint Kitt 101
9. Maldives 116
10. Malta 122
strong kuntrees...GDP (gross domestik produkt)
gross domestik produkt bi kuntree
1. United States 12,236 bilyun $
2. Red China 8,859
3. Japan 4,018
4. India 3,611
5. Germany 2,504
6. England (UK) 1,830
7. Frans 1,816
8. Italy 1,698
9. Rushya 1,589
10. Brazil 1,556
********* rich kuntrees...GDP/(persun-yeer) (per capita in krat speek)
1. Luxemberg 55,600 $/persun
2. Guinea 50,200
3. United Arab Emirates 43,400
4. Norwae 42,300
5. United States (US) 41,800
6. Ireland 41,000
7. Iesland 35.600
8. Denmark 34,600
9. San Marino 34,600
10. Kanada 34,000
**
11. Austria 32,700
12. Switzerland 32,300
13. Australia 31,900
14. Japan 31,500
15. Belgium 31,400
16. Finland 30,900
17. Netherlands (Holland)30,500
18. Germany 30,400
19. England 30,300
20. Frans 29,900
********* poor kuntrees...GDP/(persun-yeer) (per capita in krat speek)
1. Timor 400 $/persun
2. Malawi 600
3. Somalia 600
4. Komoros 600
5. Kongo 700
6. Tanzania 700
7. Burundi 700
8. Sierra Leon 800
9. Guinia-Bissau 800
10. Kiribat 800
11. Afganistan 800
********* flate rate, loest first
1. Nauru -3.6%/yeer
2. Vanuatu -1.6
3. San Marino -1.5
4. North Mariana -0.8
5. Barbados -0.5
6. Dominika -0.1
7. Israel -0.1
8. Niger 0.2
9. Japanl 0.3
10. Kiribati 0.5
11. Seychells 0.7
12. Antigua 0.9
13. Greendland 1.0
14. Liechtenstein 1.0
15. St Vinsent 1.0
16. Taiwan 1.0
17. Singapoer 1.0
18. Sierra Leon 1.0
19. Brunei 1.1
20. French Polyneshya 1.1
21. Bahama 1.2
22. Switzerland 1.2
28. Red china 1.5
29. Frans 1.5
34. Jermany 1.7
40. Kanada 2.0
49. Hong Kong 2.2
50. South Korea 2.2
52. Italy 2.3
53. Norwae 2.3
58. United States 2.5
60. Guam 2.5
71. England 3.0
89. Brazil 3.0
99. Mexiko 3.4
104. Spaen 3.5
109. Australia 3.8
136. Kuba 5.0
140. India 5.3
150. Filippines 6.2
188. Rushya 9.8
189. Turkee 9.8
190. United Arab Emir 10.0
207. Indonesya 13.2
217. Iran 15.8
218. Venezuela 15.8
219. Afganistan 16.3
221. Burma 21.4
222. Guinea 29.0
223. Iraq 64.8
224. Zimbabwe 976.4
504. laeoff in US
mass laeoffs from big kumpanees...maby bout 10% av all laeoffs
2000 1,094,211
2002 1,272,331
2003 1,216,886
2004 993,909
2005 884,661
2006 894,739
505. lake biggest area
name area, sq mile max deep, ft
Kaspian See 143,244 3,363
Superior 31,700 1,363
Viktoria 26,828 270
Aral see 24,904 220
Huron 23,000 750
the "see"=no outlet. Thus water evaporate & make water salty.
Area vary based on how much water kum in & how hot the summers.
deepest lake=Baikal in Siberia, 6,365 ft deep
Seperior is biggest "fresh water" lake.
506. land United States:
**** land area (2004)
USA area=3,717,796 square mile (1,944,130,000 akers)
land =3,536,278
water = 181,518 (inklude grate lakes area=60,052)
**** land federal area (2004)
USA land area, akers (xklude water area)
total federal %
USA 2,271,343,000 654,885,000 29.6%
Nevada 70,264,000 58,375,000 91.9
Alaska 365,482,000 243,847,000 66.5
Idaho 52,933,000 35,136,000 66.4
Utah 52,697,000 35,025,000 64.5
Wyoming 62,343,000 31,532,000 50.6
Arazona 72,688,000 36,495,000 50.2
Oregon 61,599,000 30,639,000 49.7
Kalifornya 100,207,000 46,980,000 46.9
Kolorado 66,486,000 23,174,000 34.9
Nu Mexiko 77,766,000 26,518,000 34.1
**** land rek area (2004)
naeshunal parks=49,892,000 akers
rek areas 3,391,000
other 25,740,000
sum 79,023,000
**** land "urban/rural" in krat speek
rural=1,393,760,000 akers=71.7% av total area
milyun akers (2002)
---------- "nonfederal rural land" ---------- developed water federal
rural krops pasture range forest other
1,378.1 368.4 117.3 405.3 404.9 50.6 107.3 50.4 401.9
**** land water (2000)
inland water = 79,018 square mile
koestal water= 42,241
grate lakes = 60,251
"territorial"= 77,777 (me thank that meen see water)
tot 259,287
**** land trivia
land under Shekago, Ill was wons a tropikal koral reef
anartika...hav fossils av tropikal ferns
Mount Everest is limestone that was wons at bottom av the see
507. laser: Laser at Lawrens Livermore Lab put out more enerjee than US
elektrik jenerate kapasity, but oenly for 0.1 nanosek.
508. law
silly laws
1840 Boston law...yu gotta get dokter preskribe tu take a bath
1845 Brit law...if yu tri tu kill self, guvt will hang yu
1943 on 18 Jan 1943, fed guvt outlawed sliced bred [yu mite thank it hav tu du with WW2]
bankers had tu sell hole loef. Nowon ever splaen reesun for this.
Edward 3 av England ruled...max av 2 meels/dae
******** silly kort results:
Holland: kort let bank robber dedukt 2,000 Yeros for kost av the gun
from the 6,600 tu be reterned tu the bank him robbed.
509. lawn
US hav 32 milyun akers av lawns
US yuze 67 milyun pounds bug killer on lawns per yeer
3 milyun tons fertilizer per yeer
1/3 av sitee & town water gotu water lawns
In dri areas (deserts), up tu 70% av water gotu lawns
fascinating facts
510. lawyer 1970 Arazona lawyer Russel H Tansie sued God for his sekratary & won
kauz defendant didnt sho. No rekord av how much munee him got for this.
511. leech wen mate: sperm deposited on skin & eet its wae thru, then gotta find a aeg.
eech leech hav both sexes, mae akt as mael or female wen mate
512. left 12% R left handed
40% av muvee akters R left handed
513. lemon Lemon hav more shuegar than same wate av strawberrees
514. letter
English hav 26 letters but 44 sounds
e is most yuzed...bout 12% av the lettes in NE text file (book, wotever)
US mael 167 bilyun letters/yeer=43% av werld mael
515. liberty statue...dedikated 28 Oct 1886
ofishal krat name="liberty Enlitening the Werld"
made in Frans as gift tu US...1875-1884 (dun on 21 mae 1884)
munee raesed bi Franko-Amerikan Union=privat org (no guvt munee) (F de Lesseps=hed av the yuenyun)
dezined bi F A Bartholdi (Frans). He asked A G Eiffel tu dezine the structure.
made in Frans, then disassembeled. Shipped tu USA in 1885 as 350 peeses, got tu NY in June.
**
Guvts in USA refused tu hav NE-thang tu du with liberty statue
paed bi privat munee, mostlee from rich men at events (art, theater (stage))
werk started on foundashun 5 Aug 1884...on Bedloe ieland in NY harber (renamed Liberty Ieland)
site av former immigration entry point
pedestal dun Apr 1886. Statue assembeled in 4 months. dedikated 28 Oct 1886.
15 Oct 1924...bekame National Monument=US guvt property
***** liberty size
152 ft tall (from base), 225 tons, steel frame, kopper skin bout as
thik as 2 penees.
305 ft tall from ground...stone werk bilt in US...the "pedestal"
Is it in Nu York or Jersee?...no, its Federal propertee
516. library
*** Library av Kongres is larjest library in werld
hav 134 milyun thangs & add bout 10,000/dae
biggest kollekt=the kopyrite offis
law library hav 2.5 milyun thangs
530 miles av shelfs
29,550,914 books (2003), maby 32 milyun now
United States hav 16,549 publik (guvt) librarees (2004)
517. life
***** life trivia: 27% av male kollej students sae life is "meeningless hell"
90% av spesees R extinkt.
90% av wotz left is insekts
Life on erth started bout 3.3 bilyun yrs ago.
First life on land=400 milyun yrs ago
518. lifespan United States...for nuborn babe: how long til yu die, yeers
"expectation av life" or "life expectancy" in krat speek
www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifeexpec.htm
yeer men wemen tot
1900 48.2 51.1
1910 49.3 52.5
1920 56.3 58.5
1930 59.1 62.7 59.7
1940 62.8 67.3 62.9
1950 66.3 72.0 68.2
1960 67.4 74.1 69.7
1970 68.0 75.6 70.8
1980 70.0 77.4 73.7
1990 71.8 78.8 76.1
**
2000 74.3 79.7 77.0
2003 74.7 80.0 77.4
2004 75.2 80.4 77.9
519. lily Kalla lily is 8 ft hi & 12 ft wide
fascinating facts
520. linen kloth made from flax plant (similiar tu kotton)
521. Lingo tung ("language" in krat speek)
***** lingo trivia: sum klaem erth hav 2,700 tungs+7,000 dialekts
but half av werld speek 1 av top 15 tungs
almost all tungs: werd for mother start with M.
US...even kollej grads dont yuze 99% av werds in std dikshunary during normal talk
English:
shortest sentens="no" or "go" or "out"
runner up..."I am" (long form av "me")
menshun:"me 2"
More Chineez (in China) study English than Amerikans hu speek english
** Lingo rited tung: av lingos that hav a rited vershun, 90% av the
rited vershun was invented bi mishunarees as a wae tu
translate the bibel intu theer tung (Zampel: Hawaiian)
** Lingo
number hu speek this as his "native tung"
Madarin 873 milyun
English 325
Mexikan 322
Arab 206
Hidi (Hindu) 181
Portugees 177
Bengal 171
Rushan 145
Jap 122
Jerman 95
** Lingo: number kuntrees that aksept this as "aksepted tung"
English 45
French 30
Mexikan 20
Arab 20
** Lingo: number hu no this tung
Chineez 1,351,738,000
English 1,143,219,000
Mexikan 512,037,000
French 387,821,000
Arab 340,548,000
Portugeez 234,099,000
Jap 128,646,000
Jerman 96,025,000
Korea 74,811,000
** number English speekers
as "native tung"...325,000,000
as 2nd tung 900,000,000
** number on internet hu yuze this
English 327 milyun
Chineez 153
Jap 87
Mex 86
Jerman 58
French 54
Portugeez 34
Korea 33
** number av tungs spoke in 1 kuntree
Indoneshia 694
Nu Guinea 673
Nigeria 455
India 337
Kameroon 247
Australia 226
Kongo 206
Mexiko 188
China 186
USA 165
Filippines 115
** Lingo number in USA that speek tung x (1990)
English 198,600,798
Other 31,844,797
-----
Mexikan 17,339,172
French 1,702,176
Jerman 1,547,099
Italy 1,308,648
Chineez 1,249,213
Filippino 843,251
Pole 723,251
** Lingo die rate...liberal press klaem 3,000-4000 tungs
"R in danjer av dieing out in next 100 yeers"
nuther 1 sed half the tungs will die out in next 20 yeers
nuther sed 90% will die out (dont no wen)
like NE-1 kare
** Lingo ded tung or klassik tung
Skolars pretend its a reel lingo...big status simbel for em.
zampels...Latin, sanskrit, gothik
US: 3 times as many kollej kids study Latin as Arabik
note...5000 yr old Greek is same as "modern" greek=all greek
** miss...In Frans, 96% av kids study English, even tho French Guvt dispise English
522. Linkoln had size 14 feet
got 80 deth threts.
. Linkoln Bedroom: was a normal offis or werk room til Truman put beds theer.
523. lipstik most hav fish skales init
524. lite, litebulb
trivia: kommon bulb ("incadescent" in krat) is 5% effishunt
fluorescent=20%, thus same watt=4 times the lite
"Compact Fluorescent Lamps"=CFL=fluorescent bulb that skru in
like old lite bulbs
***** lite output: lumens/watt
kommon 13
halogen 15
std fluorescent 60-65
hi-efficient fluor 90
CFL 69
***** litebulb histree ("history" in krat)
1801 Humpree Davy send lektrons thru platinum tu make it giv off lite
1840...Warren DelaRue (Brit) put platinum inside vakyuem tube
1841...first patent...Fred Moleyns (England), yuzed powdered charkoel
1851...Robert Houdin...had all the basik parts av modern lite bulb
1879...Edisun got patent for his lite bulb
***** litebulb: replaes 1 kommon lite bulb with fluorescent=save 500 pounds av koel
at power plant, or equivalent enerjee av oil or natural gas
525. lite, traffik:
1868: Brit J P Nite made traffik lite with red & green lites.
put in front av Kommons Hous tu kontrol folks & buggees.
1910: Shekago: Ernest Sirrine got patent for automatik with
2 words (stop & proseed)
1912: Salt Lake Sitee: Lester Wire...signal with elektrik lites
526. litening
***** litening trivia: 20 time more chans tu get hit bi litening than
rattelsnake bite yu
Old saeing" litening never hit same plaes twice" is RONG.
Litening tend tu hit hi points & tu hit same 1 many times.
Empire State Bilding get hit bout 7 times/yeer.
litening...number hert & killed, number reported tu guvt
USA...kill 80/yeer & hert 300 (bout same as tornadoes) (www.nws.noaa.gov)
***** trivia: litening hit erth 100/sekond
Roy Sullivan survived 7 litening hits
hit sumwon...83% R men (men hav 5 times chans tu be hit)
Litening make 10 milyun tons/yeer av nitrogen kompounds ("fix" nitrogen)
eech kommershal aerplane get hit bi litening bout 1 time/yeer
wile up in the aer, yuzeyually neer a thunderstorm.
**
oenlee bout 1% av litening hit sumthang. Most litening is tween klouds.
Litening kan be 100 milyun volts
Tipikal kurrent=50,000 amps. Enerjee=500 mega jues.
litening yuzyually hit tallest thang in area...tree or bilding.
kan kill 60 ft from weer it hit.
If hit water, lektrons go thru water & kan stun yu 1 km awae.
Yer safe in a kar...metal skin kondukt lektrons tu ground.
*** plasma: Lektrons bern theer wae thru aer & ionize the aer
(strip off lektrons). Heet lokal aer tu 60,000 deg F.
Sientists kall ionized aer "plasma". Its a good kondukter.
Lektrons muve fast. Hot plasma gro & gro zig-zag path thru ski.
But lektrons luze enerjee fast or the bolt hit sumtrhang that
draen the lektrons. As a result, litening go a a seerees av "strokes".
First=leeder. It go in steps av bout 30 meters. First in
1 mikrosekond, then pauz 50 mikros. repeet.
averaej speed=(3/5) megameter/sekond...0.002 av the speed av lite.
Then theer is retern stroke & maby several bak & forth.
527. liter (portabel byutane liter)
sig liter invented B4 matches
1816: Dobereiner (Jermanee) invent it. Yuzed hydrogen gas.
& platnium tu lite it (no flint).
It kost 2 much for kommon man & 2 big tu karry around.
1918: flint liter bekum small & praktikal.
1920: flint weel liter: yuze thumb tu flip the weel.
1930: Jorj G Blaisdel dezined the ZIPPO:
1. metal with holes around the flame=wind dont bloe out flame.
2. flip top tu kloes it wen not in yuze.
1940: Ronson introdused Butane in its liters.
(older 1's yuzed naftha=oily liquid)
USA...20 July 2007...Nashunal safety bord take awae 22,000 liters/dae
from passengers hu tri tu get on a plane
BIK sae it sell 1.5 bilyun butane liters/yeer.
528. littel ies aej ("ice age" in krat speek)
a kold time in Yerrop from bout 1500 tu 1850.
Siens thank hole north half av erth was kold, but all our
data kum from Yerrop & a littel from North Amerika.
sum hints around 1250 AD: pak ies in the north & glasheers in
Greenland muv south.
Koldest: 3 deg F kolder than tudae.
1315-1317: grate famin: kold & wet kauz krops tu fael.
1400: Kolonees in Greenland starv=evreewon ded.
1607: Thames River freez neer London.
1658: Baltik See freezed & konnek Poland tu Sweden.
1695: ies blok all ports in Iesland.
1780: Nu York harber freezed.
1816: yeer without summer
529. liver =3.5 pounds=heveeest organ in yer body
fascinating facts
530. lizard many lizards hav tung longer that its body...yuze it tu katch insekts.
531. lone ("loan" in krat speek)
Oktober 2007: banks set aside 20 bilyun $ for subprine lone losses
over next 18 months, US guvt spend 2 TRILYUN $ tu save banks.
532. Los Angeles (LA): full name="el Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
Los Angeles de Porciuncula"
"sitee av angels" in nonkrat
533. lost dekade:
Historikal: 1980's in Latin Amerika
1990's in Japan wen hous+stok bubbel krash
US: 10 yeers: 1 Jan 2000 thru 31 Des 2009 (the "grate Ressesshun")
US werker pae go down.
Total jobs same in Des 2009 as Jan 2000, even tho number
adults hu kan werk go up 30,000,000.
2 stok market krashes
Housing bubbel krash & kauz werld-wide big bad times
US guvt spend 5 Trilyun $ tu save big bad banks.
stok market: oenlee 10-yr time span the S&P 500 go down
533. lottery lottery sales, United States
sell state profit
yeer bilyun $ bilyun
1980 2.393 0.978
1990 20.017 7.703
2000 37.201 11.404
2002 41.979 12.478
2004 47.697 15.094
534. loud loudest nois...krakatoa=volkano neer Java bloed it top in 1883
herd in Australia, 5000 km awae. 36,000 died.
see also...volkano
535. lumber United States ("saw timber" in krat speek)
1970: 2.420 trilyun bord feet
trees=649 bilyun kubik feet ("volume av groeing stock" in krat speek)
wen kut down tree, guvt kall the log "roundwood"
per persun yuze av logs
yeer lumber plywood pulp fuel other
bord-ft bord-ft kubik ft kube-ft kube-ft
1970 193 36.4 21.5 2.6 2.1
536. lung yu breeth 15 times/minut at rest (yu dont du nuthun)
area av lung aer-absorb=size av tennis kort
see also...breeth
537. lungfish kan survive 3 yeers outta water.
538. mael ("mail" or "post" in krat speek)
see also...post kard/post offis
United States:200 bilyun letters in USA in 2000
Best stamp=Elvis (1993)...122.3 milyun sold
**** frank mael: Kongress get tu send "ofishal" mael free.
kall this the "franking privledj"
Taxpaer pae for it...kongress appropriate x$/yeer tu send
tu post offis tu pae for franks.
WW2: soldyers got tu send mael free.
***** mael...kost tu send "first klass" letter
mael rate, letter..."first klass" in krat speek
1799 8 sents/letter up tu 40 miles, more based on distans
1816 6 sents/letter up tu 30 miles, more based on distans
1845 5 sents/letter up tu 300 miles, then 10 sents
1851 3 sents/letter up tu 3000 miles, 5 sents if COD
1855 3 sents/letter up tu 3000 miles
1863 3 sents/0.5 owns
1883 2 sents/0.5 owns
**
1917 3 sents/owns
1919 2 sents/owns
1932 3 sents/owns
1958 4 (pries went up on 1 Aug 1958)
63 5
68 6
71 8
74 10
75 10 (first owns)
75 13
78 15
81 18
81 20
85 22
88 25
91 29
95 32
99 33
2000 34 (23 sents for eech xtra owns)
2002 37
2005 39
2007 41
12 Mae 2008: 42 sents
2009 44 sents
******** aermael (airmail in krat speek)
15 Mae 1918...24 sents/owns
15 July1918 16 sents/owns
15 Des 1918 6 sents/owns
18 July 1919 2 sents/owns
1 July 1924 8 sents/owns-zone
kuntree had 3 zones. If go tu dif zone, gotta pae more
1 July 1925 8 sents/owns for daetime, 10 sents for overnite
15 Feb 1926 5 sents/owns-zone+ a distans charj
01 Feb 1927 10 sents/0.5 owns (no zones & all distanses)
01 Aug 1928 5 sents for first owns, 10 sents for xtra owns
06 July 1932 8 sents for first owns, 13 sents for xtra owns
01 July 1934 6 sents/owns
26 Mar 1944 8 sents/owns
01 Okt 1946 5 sents/owns
01 Jan 1949 6 sents/owns; aer post kards=4 sents
01 Aug 1958 7 sents/owns; aer post kards=5 sents
07 Jan 1963 8 sents/owns; aer post kards=6 sents
07 Jan 1968 10 sents/owns; aer post kards=8 sents
***** priority mael
parshal-post is 4th klass=slo
"priority mail" is a semi-1st klass for pakaejes
1st klass=letters=top priority.
1. priority mail treet pakaej almost like letters, but gotta du evreethang bi hand.
nowadaes, post offis yuze masheens tu kansel & sort letters...that speed em up sum.
masheens sort letters bi zip kode.
2. if box is bigger than shue box or > 2 pounds, gotta yuze deliver truk
insted av regular delivery. True for all boxes...priority or not.
3. many guvt werkers treet all boxes like boxes (not like letter)
539. mael-order ads...wi du em alwaes sae "let 6-8 weeks for delivery"
Kumpanees duit tu protekt self from guvt law & yuzer komplaents.
most kumpanees ship the stuff 3-5 daes after em get yer order.
mael mite take a week if its parshel-post.
Folks in this biz sae yu shood get it in 2-3 weeks.
katalog plaeses sae 90% av orders get tu yu in 2 weeks.
many plaeses farm out the shipping tu "fulfillment hous"
thees "houses" sae ternaround is yuzyually 2-3 daes for theer part av it.
if yu pae with a chek, em mae waet til chek kleer the bank...mae be 1 week.
A big part av the problem is Fed guvt (FTC) in 1974 made rule that sed
bier kan komplaen if it dont kum bi time kumpanee sed in theer ad.
naturally, all kumpanees pad the time in theer ads tu redues komplaents.
fascinating facts
540. magazine Nu Yorker Mag hav more subskribers in Kalifornya than Nu York
541. Magellan did NOT sael round the werld. Him died in the Filippines.
(Maktan Ieland, off Cebu Sitee) wile fite lokals (27 Apr 1521).
trip:20 Sep 1519 tu 6 Sep 1522.
1 av 5 Spaen ships (Viktoria) made it bak home aft 3 yeers.
Sebastian de Kano komanded wot was left af the expedishun.
If yu wanna split haers, Magellan's slave was a Malae.
The slave was on that 1 ship. So wen ship get tu Malaya,
the slave saeled round the werld=first man tu duit.
Magellan found the straets at south tip av South Amerika
at Tierra del fuego (land fire). Then sael 96 daes west in
the Pasifik til find a small Ieland (Jan 1521).
March 1521, find Guam, then the Filippines.
542. malaria kum from French mal aria...bad aer
543. mall
USA hav 1,100 malls (2009) [exklude "strip mall"]
& 1.1 milyun stores
1 soers sae 150,000 stores will go bust in resesshun av 07-11
544. mammals 4525 speeses (much less than fish or birds)
gestation period=how long take fertilized aeg tu get born
opossum =13 daes & 8 kids
mous 20 4
rat 22 8
rabbit 31 8
kangaroo 33 1
dog 60 6
kat 63 4
pig 114 8
bear 219
chimp 227 1
man 280 1
kow 280 1
hoers 340 1
wale 360 1
kamal 406
elefant 625 1
lifespan, yeers (normal)
mous 4
rabbit 10
monkee 15
wolf 16
beever 19
zebra 22
tiger 25
buffalo 30
baer 32
chimp 40
hippo 49
hoers 50
elefant 65
man 75
545. man
Time's man-av-the-yeer in 1938...Hitler
averaej adult man in USA hav 2.5 kredit kards
546. manhole wi is manhole kuver round?
best ges is kauz if yu tern a flat thang edjwise, round wont go thru round hold its size.
(all kuvers hav a lip, so it is an inch or 2 bigger than the hole).
square, rektangel, elipse, ets will fall thru the hole.
sum folks dont beleev this. Sum sae it was just eezeeer tu make em round.
or that krats standardized it that wae bi pure chans.
547. Mania
see also...bubbels
Charles Mackae rote book "extraordinary delusions & the madness av krowds" (1841)
that sho zampels av how men go mad for munee, bi sumthang til pries
go thru roof, then it kollaps & most luze all theer munee.
548. Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on 1 foot
549. Marko Polo..left Italy for China in 1271. Get bak tu Italy in 1295
Wot was the bizeeest port in the werld then? Venis
French riter Rustichello rite book "Deskripshun av the Werld"
from wot Marko tell him. Book sweep thru Yerrop.
fascinating facts
550. marbel Taj Mahal is all marbel (bild=1632-1654)
551. marriage
Marry in June was kommon in Yerrop from middel aejes kauz folks
took theer yeerlee bath in Mae=smell better & that leed tu kortin.
The flowers for the bride was tu hide the bad smell (1 month sins last bath).
rate...% hu get wed (married)
yeer % av all % av nonwed females
1920 1.20% 9.20%
1930 0.92 6.76
1940 1.21 8.28
1950 1.11 9.02
1960 0.85 7.35
1970 1.06 7.67
********** averaej aej on first wed
yeer men wemen (male/female in krat speek)
1890 26.1 22.0
1900 25.9 21.9
1910 25.1 21.6
1920 24.6 21.2
1930 24.3 21.3
1940 24.3 21.5
1950 22.8 20.3
1960 22.8 20.3
1970 23.2 20.8
552. MASH trivia: Jamee Far (klinger)=oenlee akter hu was a reel soldyer
in the Korean war
553. match =small paper or wood with chemikals on end tu start a fire.
Rub hed kros ruff surfus & frikshun heet kemikals & it bern.
most kommon kemikal=fosferus ("phosphorus" in krat speek)
safety match=yu gotta rub it ginst preped strip on the box or book.
Rome had sumthang like a match that yuzed sulfer.
China: 477ad: had pine stiks soeked in sulfer.
1805: modern match: K Cansel (werk for professer Thenard in Paris)
hed hav potsssium chlorate, sulfer, shugar, rubber. Tu lite,
haft did it in bottel av sulferik asid. 2 akward & kost 2 much.
1826: "frikshun match": Jon Walker for professer Thenard in Paris)
Hed had antimony sulfide, potassium chlorate, gum, & starch
Sam Jones got patent for match him kall "licifer".
1830 Charles Sauria (Frans) added with fosforus, tu kut the stink.
had tu keep it in aer-tite box kauz fosforus absorb water.
The fosforus kan kill yu, so sum wanna ban the match.
1836 "noisless match" Hungarian student Janos Irinyi.
replaes potasium chlorate with led dioxide. Him sell rites
tu Hungarian Istvan Romer (druggist) hu got rich on em.
` 1844 "safety match" Sweed: Gustaf Erik Pasch & later Jon Lundstrom.
got rid av the wite fosforus..."safe" in sens it wont poison yu.
Yuze red fosforus insted av wite.
1850 modern "safety match": put the fosforus on a strip on
the box, with powdered glas tu make it ruf.
This match wont lite if yu rub it ginst floor or shu or wotever.
Match hed=50% potasium chorate+gum+starch+glue+sand.
1898 Frans: Savene & Cahen invent strike NE-weer match.
It yuze fosforus sesquisulfide & potassium chlorate.
Note: US guvt ban thees matches on kommershal aerplanes.
554. materials...United States make/extrakt raw materials
bilyun $/yeer
enerjee=koel, oil, gas, wood that is berned, wale oil
fizikal=bild material, input tu faktrees, farm stuff yu kant eet
yeer total food enerjee fizikal
1900 17.358 10.448 2.447 4.463
1910 23.075 12.952 3.867 6.256
1920 26.706 14.405 5.285 7.015
1930 29.890 16.830 6.071 6.989
1940 34.901 18.985 7.261 8.655
1950 45.532 22.672 10.384 12.476
1960 53.644 26.636 15.532 13.476
1969 68.590 32.275 19.170 17.145
555. McDonalds..46 milyun eeters/dae
hav sold bout 100 bilyun bergers
open nu store evree 4 hrs [but em dont subtrakt klosed stores]
bizeeest:40,000 eeters in Moskow
556. McKoy "the reel McKoy" was kid Mckoy=lite-wate box champion 1890-1900
he was popular, so imataters oft klaemed tu be him tu bring in the krowds.
557. medikal USA: nowon paed the medikal bill:43.1 bilyun $ in 2005
(broke & dont hav medikal inshuer)
558. meel In middel aejes in Yerrop, normal=2 meels/dae
559. meet USA eet 110 pounds/(persun-yeer)
Yerrop: bout half that
fascinating facts
560. melt hiest melting temperature=Tungsten...6,200 deg Farenhite
561. memorial dae...was originally tu oner the ded from the Sivil War.
then kalled Decoration Dae
now for all wars.
Many konsider it the start av summer...time off, take a vakashun.
562. men/wemen...wi R men happy? Ignorans is blis.
men see smaller print. Wemen heer better
563. Mercedes never made a kar. Emil Jellinek, raes kar driver in
Austro-Hungary yuzed his dotter's name ("Mercedes" in Mexikan).
1900: him got Daimler tu dezine a raes kar for him & kalled
it Mercedes. Wen Daimler merjed with Benz, em agreed tu
kall the kumpanee "Mercedes-Benz".
564. metal US person will yuze 45,000 pounds av metal bi dae him die
Lithium is the litest metal, half as dens as water.
its in the "alkali metal" gruep
Tungsten hav hiest melting temperature=6,200 deg Farenhite
565. meteor, meteorite
see also...asteroid
***** meteor trivia:1993: meteor hit Yerropeon satellite & kill it
1. meteor=solid (not gas) matter in spaes...roks, metal chunks
2. shooting star=the streek yu see in nite ski wen meteor hit erths's aer & bern up
3. meteorite=NE solid remaens av a meteor yu find on erth
bout 200 tons/dae av meteor dust (space dust) hit aer & bern up
(latest NASA ges)
** if yu kood get a 1 kubik km nikel-iron meteor down tu erth intakt, be werth 5 trilun $
suppli werld with 200 yrs av nikkel & 15 yrs av iron
larjest meteorite found so far=55 tons.
wen meteor hit erth, it make krater
meteor kraters on erth up tu 60 miles kros seeabel on land.
seeabel from spaes...185 mile kross in South Afrika
566. migrant "migrants" sended 300 bilyun $ bak "home" in 2006
so sae international fund for farm development
Thats munee we dont get tu see heer
567. migrate Sum birds migrate: south in winter, north in summer.
Artik tern go 11,000 miles, 2 times a yeer:
Labrador tu Anartika & bak. Its alwaes summer wen it land.
(gotu Labrador wen summer theer, then go south kum fall)
568. mikrobe mikrobe=1-sell "organism" that mite make yu sik
mikrobe density...
desk 20,961 mikrobes/square inch
fone 25,125
keebord 3,295
toilet seet 49
dishtowel hav 1 bilyun mikrobes
eeteree tabel hav 2 times the mikrobes as
tabel in publik bath dedikated tu chaenj baby diaper
569. mile kum from latin "milia passum"=1000 paeses.
in 1575, Elizabeth 1 chaenjed it tu 8 furlongs (1 furlong=660 ft)
1 foot was then defined=length av king's foot, but not liz's foot
tudae: 1 ft=12 inch & 1 inch defined =2.54 cm
fascinating facts
570. military
salute...Roman soldyers greet eech other bi raes rite arm & sho emptee hand.
sum sae this is the start av military salute in the west.
middel aejes...nites in armer, wen meet, raes viser tu sho part av faes
so kan see huz in theer. Sum sae this is the start av salutes.
******* US military spend
yeer bilyun $
1980 134.0
1990 299.3
1995 272.1
2000 290.6
******* number troops in United States military bi yeer
yeer total
1789 718
1795 5,296
**
1800 dont no
1805 6,498
1810 11,554
1814 46,858 War av 1812
1815 40,885
1820 15,113
1825 11,089
1830 11,942
1840 21,616
1848 60,308 Mexikan war
1850 20,824
1860 27,958
1865 1,062,848 Sivil war
1870 50,348
1880 37,894
1890 38,666
1898 235,785 War with Spaen
**
1900 125,923
1910 139,344
1918 2,897,167 WW1
1920 343,302
1930 255,648
1935 251,799
1940 458,365
1945 12,123,455 WW2
1950 1,460,261
1952 3,635,912 Korea war
1960 2,476,435
1970 3,066,294
571. milk USA eet 582 pounds/(persun-yeer) av milk & stuff made from milk.
cheez =38%
milk =32%
butter =13%
ies kreem=8.5%
Milk is heveeer than kreem...less fat
***** milk... pries (kost) av 1/2 gallon milk (delivered)
yeer $
1890 0.136
1895 0.136
1900 0.136
1905 0.144
1910 0.168
1915 0.175
1920 0.334
1925 0.278
1930 0.282
1935 0.234
1940 0.331
1945 0.312
1950 0.412
1955 0.462
1960 0.520
1965 0.526
1970 0.659
**
2007 2.22$ (organik milk=3.65$)
572. milky Wae Galaxy...hav bout 250 bilyun stars. Is a barbed spiral.
***** tipikal galaxy hav 100 bilyun stars, so milky wae is abuv averaej
bout 100,000 lite-yeers in diameter, 1000 lite-yeer thik.
hav halo av globular klusters av stars in speer around it.
kluster diamerter=200,000 lite yeers.
bout 13.6 bilyun yeers old.
hav 4 majer spiral arms (logrithmik spirals) Sun is bout
26,000 lite-yeer from senter=half wae out. At inner edj
av the Orion arm. Take bout 250 milyun yeers for sun tu go
round the galaxy senter (orbit it), speed=217km/sek.
**** lokal gruep: Milky wae&Andromeda R the 2 big galaxees at the hart
av the lokal gruep. Andromeda is biggest. Several smaller
galaxees in the gruep...bout 50 in all. Other eezee tu see:
Big & small Magellanik klouds= non regular galazees. Em orbit
round Milky Wae, so kloes em graze edj av Milky wae.
Resent astronomy: thank Milky Wae & Andromeda will run
tugether in 4 bilyun yeers.
**
estimated 100 bilyun galaxees in yunivers
573. milipeed...hav 4 legs/segment. most hav < 100 legs
Max number legs=750
574. milyun werld hav 7 milyun milyunaers ("millionaires" in krat speek)
2008: US had 9.2 milyun milyunaers based on theer assets but
xklude the hous (B4 the hous bubbel pop).
2009: num milyunaers down 27% tu 6.7 mil: stok market drop 50%
575. mine a deep mine pump in 16 tons av aer for evree 1 ton av ore it take out
576. minister: name kum from Saxon "mynster" & meen Cherch or monasteree.
577. minoritees
Minoritees R the majoritee in 4 states (2006) bi wae the guvt
define em. Biggest minoritee=Mexikans.
akording tu fed stats, wites R < 50% av population in 4 states
Hawaya, Kalifornya, Nu Mexiko, Texas
Hawaya...77% minoritees, 58% "aesyuns" [guvt krats ban
the werd "oriental"] ("japs" in non krat)
22%=NHPI (nativ Hawaians & Pasifik ielanders)
Nu Mexiko...57% mexikan
Kalifornya 43% mexikan, 6% "aeshyuns"
next in line...Arazona, Nevada, Maryland, Miss, Jorjya
578. Mint
***** mint tibit: in 2007 it kost US guvt 1.7 sents tu make a penny
& 9.5 sents tu make a nikkel (metal pries went wae up)
United States mint make all US koins
Started 2 Apr 1792 as indepent ajensee. First was under Jefferson.
Took 3 yeers for mint tu make first milyun koins. Made 1 at
a time bi hand.
Kongres not happy.
Not nuff koins, so many folks yuzed Spaen peeses-av-8.
1873...mint is part av Treasury Dept
2 mints now...Denver & Filly. Had mints in San Fran & Karsun Sitee
Sins 1970, Kongress make laws for the mint tu make dollar koins
tu tri tu foers us off paper munee. All such koins flop.
Sum keep a dollar koin as a momento; nun yuze it as munee.
Best tri was the Eisenhower silver dollar...its now a kollekter item.
2007: Latest guvt 1$ koin=the "president seerees". Spozed tu put dif
president on the front evree 3 months.
579. Mirrer brake mirrer=7 yeers bad luk=old superstishun
in old daes em thot mirrer reflekt yer sole.
if brake mirrer, sole kant retern tu body, so yu hav bad luk.
7 yeers kum from Rome beleev evreewon's forchun go in 7 yeer siekels.
fascinating facts
580. Mite tipikal bed hav 6 bilyun dust mites
581. Mole kan dig 310 ft/nite
582. Mona Lisa dont hav iebrows...that was fashun bak then in Italy.
the paenting hav 4 laers...all av the same woman.
583. moon Erth's moon muve awae 1.6 inch/yeer
Jupiter hav 63 moons & Saturn hav 60 (as av 20 July 2007)
Erth's moon is biggest relativ tu its planet
moon mass=0.0123* erth mass (1.2%)...biggest ratio av NE moon tu its planet
[erth mass=5.9736*10^24 kg]
moon diameter=3,474 km=27% av erth diameter=biggest ratio av NE moon
gravity on moon=17% av erth surfus gravity (32.174 ft/sek**2)
meen distans from erth=238,855 miles, min=221,560 mile
***** full moon is 30% briter wen moon is kloes tu erth than at max distans
Feb 1999 did not hav full moon (31 Jan & 2 March)
584. morgage ("mortgage" in krat speek)
klik heer for morgage
585. morn the ded...In moslem areas, wite is the kolor av deth (not blak)
586. Moses Michelangelo paented horns on Moses kauz av bad translate
Hebru werd for rae & horn R same. Original Hebru had raes av lite from Moses's hed.
587. mosquito 1 drink=1.5 times its wate (oenlee females drink blood)
liv fine in tropiks & artik. Kan survive at north pole.
wing beet=1000/sekond
588. motel US motels reserv 2.8 milyun rooms/dae
589. moth dont eet yer klothes in the kloset...the katapillers duit.
fascinating facts
590. mother kults wership mother in Aeshya miner bout 1000BC
Romans kalled it Hilaria & time ="ides av March" (15 March)
Later Kathlik cherch tri tu konvert it tu "mother av god" on
4th sundae av lent. This bekum "mothers dae".
1907: US: Anna Jarvis av Grafton, W Virjinya konvinsed sum
lokal guvts tu set aside a dae as Mothers dae.
Yunjest mother: 8 yrs old, China, 1910.
591. mountins
hiest=Mount Everest (himalayas, Tibet) 29,035 ft hi
2,250 hav klimed tu top (31 Mae 06)
mountain chaens:
1. Himalaya is tallest
2. Andees
3. Brooks range in Alaska
hiest bi kontinents
1. Aesya Mount Everest 29,035 ft Nepal-Tibet border
2. Afrika Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 19,340 ft
3. Anartik Vinson Massif 16,864
4. Australia Jaya, Nu Guinea 16,500 ft
5. North Amerika Mount McKinlee 20,320 ft (also kalled Denai)
6. South Amerika Aconcagua, Argentina, 22,834 ft (Andes mounts)
7. Yerrop Mont Blank (alps) 15,771 ft Frans-Italy border
selekted kuntrees
USA McKinlee, Alaska 20,320
loer 48: Whitnee, Kalif 14,494
Kanada Logan, Yukon 19,551
Mexiko Pico de Orizaba 18,619
592. mous liv about 1 yeer.
female hav bout 10 "litter"s av bout 10 eech. 3 weeks tu birth.
593. Mudd Dr Sam A Mudd set the broke leg bone av Jon W Booth (hu killed Abe Linkoln)
He did not no NE-thang bout Linkoln got shot, but many didnt beleev it.
him got a lotta skorn from the publik.
this led the the expreshun "mi name is mud"
594. munee
***** munee: sumthang others will aksept tu sell yu sumthang
***** munee joke...if munee dont gro on trees, wi du banks hav branches?
gag joke...pikture av elvis on 5$ bill
***** munee trivia: more monopoly munee made eech yeer than guvt munee
at end av sivil war, half the paper munee was kounterfit
if hav munee problems, 2 times as many spekt tu get help
from kin as from guvt
***** munee: Skolars thank "munee" kum from Rome tempel av Hera.
or maby from greek "moneres" wich meen "alone"
***** munee:
Total munee in werld=60 Trilyun $. Divide bi 6.7 bilyun folks
=8,955$/persun on erth.
Today, all munee is fiat...guvt define it as "legal tender" &
make laws that sae yu gotta yuze it. It is paper munee or
elektrons on bank disks that sae yu hav $ in the bank.
GUVT sae munee=dollar bills (paper munee)+koins (reel munee)
"circulation"=munee that go from hand-tu-hand. (more detaels belo)
30 June 2006...797.13 bilyun $=2,666$/persun in USA
US guvt (Fed Rezerv) yuze M3="munee in circulation"+
all cheking akkounts+all save akkounts.
Total US munee (M3)=1.654 Trilyun $ (July 2009)
(www.federalreserve.gov)
United States...the mint make koins, buro av engraving & printing make bills (paper munee)
both part av Treshuree dept
1934: US made 100,000 $ "gold sertifikut"
estimated 60% av USA munee in "circulation" is oversees (outside the united states)
**** munee: faes on dollar bills
1$ 8,727,723,173$ Washington
2$ 1,491,099,638$ Jefferson (wen was last time yu see a 2$ bill?)
5$ 10,000,017,840$ Linkoln
10$ 15,130,638,610$ Hamilton
20$ 113,156,355,720$ Jaksun
50$ 60,897,930,250$ Grant
100$ 550,820,807,700$ Franklin
500$ 142,435,500$ McKinlee
1000$ 165,701,000$ Kleevland
**** munee: 2$ bill: 2007: hav 1,116,091,458$ av 2$ bills in US but 0 in kash drawers
guvt made 590,720,000 serees 1976 2$ bills
most resent vershun=12 Sep 1996 (serees 1995)
How kum yu never see a 2$ bill? Big retaelers such as WalMart
limit kash drawers tu oenlee hold 1,5,10,20$.
Em thank if had more, casheer make more mistakes & mae giv
out 2 much chaenj.
**** paper munee...(buro av engraving & printing)
2006 (fizikal yeer) US made 33 milyun $/dae =529 milyun $/yeer
1$=54.8% av the bills
95% replaes old bills, 5%=more munee
kost guvt 5.7 sents/bill
1 pound=490 bills
biggest=100$ tudae (guvt dont print 500 or 1000$ NE-more)
Up tu 1946, guvt printed 500, 1000, & 10,000$ bills
also made 100,000$ "gold sertifikate", but oenlee inside Federal Reserv
weer...kan bend bill bak & forth 4000 times b4 it rip (lot better than reel paper)
**** munee, paper (kont)
United States guvt started printing paper munee in 1861 (b4 then it was private banks)
size was 50% bigger than tudae
faes value...3, 5, 10, 25, 50 sents
tudae's size=2.61 inch * 6.14 inch * 0.0043 inch
1 mile hi pile av bills hav 14.5 milyun bills
the "paper" is 25% linen, 75% kotton
yuze 18 tons/dae av ink tu print em darn thangs
avraej lifetime av paper munee
1$ 22 months
5$ 16 months
10 18 months
20 24 months
50 55 months
100 90 months
**** munee: print prosses
rotary press make 8000 sheets/our
32 bills on 1 sheet
printed in 3 steps...
1. blak ink on front, green ink on bak
2. green ink for serial number & seel
3. overprint with sekerity stuff
kut & put intu "unit" with 100 bills, then a "brik" av 40 "units"
**** munee: serial numbers
evree bill hav serial number at 2 plaeses on front...yuneek number
1996: nu dezine: 2 letters+8 digits+1 letter (13 chars)
old dezine had 1 letter in front
letter 1=the seerees...A wen start it, B wen redezine it
letter 2 (letter 1 on old bills)=Federal Rezerv Distrikt
It also hav number for the distrik sprinkled around at random spots
distrik letter sitee
1 A Boston
2 B Nu York
3 C Filly
4 D Kleevland
5 E Richmond
6 F Atlanta
7 G Shekago
8 H St Luis
9 I Minneapolis
10 J Kansas Sitee
11 K Dallas
12 L San Fran
letter at end=arbitrary tu inkrees the kombos
result=2.5 bilyun
***** munee: first paper munee
first in North Amerika=1685 French kards made from plae kard blanks
***** munee: koins=metal munee
first munee was koins=metal objekts with inherent value
koins last 30 yeers (weer out or folks luze em)
3000bc: Mesopotania had the shekel.
It was werth preset volume av barlee.
600 bc: stamped koins in Lydia. First gold & silver koins.
2007...kopper now kost so much it kost guvt >1 sent tu make the penny
Til 1861, oenlee ofishal guvt munee was koins.
sept first fyu yeers, had not yet made nuff koins,
so was legal tu yuze forin koins.
******************* munee in circulation *****************
595. munee circulate...how much go from hand tu hand
see also...munee problems
****** munee in yer hands ("currency in circulation" in krat speek)
paper: "certificates" or "bank notes" or "U. S. currency" or "US notes"
or "tresury notes" or "federal reserve notes" in krat speek
("minor koin" in krat speek=penny, nikkel, dime, quarter, half-dollar)
("frakshuns"...paper notes less than 1$)
** how much in "circulation"...milyun dollars
yeer gold gold silver silver other US naeshun state frakshuns
koins paper dollars paper silver notes banks banks
1800 10.5
1810 28.0
1820 44.8
1830 61.0
1835 103.7
1840 106.97
1845 89.61
1850 131.37
1860 207.30 207.10
...............................................................................
1865 148.56 8.71 378.92 146.92 142.92 21.73
1870 81.18 32.08 8.98 324.96 288.65 2.22 34.38
1875 64.45 17.55 22.14 349.69 340.55 0.96 37.90
1880 225.70 7.96 20.111 5.79 48.51 327.89 337.42 0 0
1885 341.67 126.73 39.087 101.531 43.70 331.22 308.63
1890 374.26 130.83 56.279 297.556 54.03 334.69 181.60
...............................................................................
gold gold silver silver other US naeshun treshury small fed reserv
koins paper dollars paper silver notes banks notes koins notes
1895 479.638 48.381 51.986 319.623 60.35 319.09 206.95 115.943
1900 610.806 200.733 65.889 408.466 76.161 319.09 300.115 75.304 26.080
1905 651.064 485.211 73.584 454.865 101.438 332.42 480.029 9.272 35.458
1910 590.878 802.754 72.433 478.597 135.548 334.79 683.660 3.663 46.328
1915 587.537 821.869 64.499 463.147 159.043 309.79 782.120 2.245 58.516 70.810
1920 474.822 259.007 76.749 97.606 248.863 278.14 689.608 1.656 90.958 3,064.742
1925 402.297 1,004.823 54.289 382.780 262.009 282.58 681.709 1.356 100.307 1,636.108
1930 357.236 994.841 38.629 386.915 281.231 288.39 650.779 1.260 117.436 1,402.066
1933 320.939 265.487 27.995 360.699 256.865 268.81 919.614 1.186 112.532 3,060.793
...............................................................................
gold silver silver other US naeshun treshury small fed reserv
paper dollars paper silver notes banks notes koins notes
1934 149.740 30.013 401.456 280.400 279.608 901.872 1.189 119.142 3,068.404
1935 117.167 32.308 701.474 295.773 285.417 704.263 1.182 125.125 3,222.913
1940 66.793 46.020 1,581.662 384.187 247.887 165.155 1.163 168.977 5,163.284
1945 52.084 125.178 1,650.689 788.283 322.587 120.012 1.150 291.996 22,867.459
1950 40.772 170.185 2,177.251 964.709 320.781 86.488 1.145 360.886 22,760.285
1955 34.466 223.047 2,169.726 1,202.209 319.064 64.239 1.142 432.512 25,617.775
1960 30.394 305.083 2,126.833 1,484.033 318.436 55.652 1.142 549.367 27,093.693
1965 13.209 481.698 829.177 2,355.380 301.978 22.167 0.042 824.585 34,823.233
1970 3.731 481.675 220.061 4,519.799 296.784 20.271 0.011 1,126.617 47,626.751
***** munee...circulation brakedown, paper munee, bi dollar bill size
* bilyun $ av eech
31 Des 2006 1$bill 2$ 5$ 10$ 20$ 50$ 100$ all
9.0 bil $ 1.5 10.5 16.0 119.2 62.8 564.1 783.5
***** munee
2007: United States munee in circulation=820 bilyun $
596. munee problems
next...mutual funds
maen reesuns Amerikans hav munee problems
1. kredit kards
Half yu-all with kredit kards pae it off evree month...no problem.
The other half oft get deep in debt, sumtimes 100,000$
Interest rate so hi, hard tu even keep up with interest.
Then yu luze yer job & it take 2+ yeers tu find nu job.
Or sumwon get sik & hospital bill=100,000$
Dont pae on time, kard kumpanee charj 50$ "late fee"
2. liv 2 hi on hog (spend 2 much)
yer "must-hav" spend gotta be < 50% av yer take-home pae or yer sunk.
For most the biggest spend is the hous or rent. Maby yu need
tu muve tu cheeper plaes. Sumtimes the yutilitees R outta-wak
such as spend 300$/month for TV+fone+internet+muvees+GPS+...
3. raed the retire fund tu pae liv now...the latest fad.
Dont hav munee for down-pae on the 700,000$ hous? Eezee, take out
140,000 from the 401k or IRA'S. Then it bekum habit.
Next yeer yu raed the retire fund tu pae of kredit kard debt,
then yu run up wopping debt agin. Yu'll never brake even this wae.
4. paedae lenders (get munee B4 the paechek kum)
The fees yu pae kum tu 400% interest rate. No wunder yu hav problems.
5. no emerjensee fund...Wen sumthang bad happen, yu dont hav no munee.
most kommon problems: 1 luze job, then 2. Big medikal bill
dubbel wammy. Yu need munee in bank tu hold yu over til yu get ban on feet.
Guvt Buro av laber Stats sae oenlee 30% av yu-all hav NE kash yu kan grap
wen big problem hit. Konsidering all the bad thangs that kan happen
yu need nuff $ in bank for 6 months bare-bones spend. For most this is
2 much tu hope for...so tri tu save up 3-months werth.
munee problems...
6. hang onto hous yu kant afford. This is very resent nukummer.
So many got took in bi the housing bubbel...all em nu fangeled bangels
Lone sharks made it sound like yu kan muv intu 500,000$ hous.
Many bot nu bank "innovashuns" such as ARM or opshun lones yu dont understand.
Yu start with teeser interest rate set tu redikulus figger such as 2%,
At end av honeymoon, ratchet up tu maby 7 or 8%. yer hous paement go
from 500$/month tu 2000$.
Now yer oenlee opshun is forkloes hous (banker take awae yer hous),
or go bankrupt. First time yu dont send banker the hous paement on time,
him notis & tell kredit buros, so it mae hert yu. But banker wont tell yu.
Alredee, yer in trubel & dont noit. If 90 daes go bi without pae
on morgage, yer a "problem lone"...banker file "notis av default" at
the kountee korthous. Normally him now send yu a nasty letter that sae
paeup or els. & now banker add his "kosts" tu debt yu oe him.
The notis is publik & krooks (skam artis) see it & flood yu with
"how-tu's" tu get out from under this problem. Eventually, the bank
will sell yer hous at publik aukshun on the korthous step.
Best thang tu du is kontakt the bank as soon as yu get behind.
Most bankers dont like tu go thru this legal hassel & will tri tu
werk with yu. If yu kan pae sumthang, it mae tide yu over so yu keep hous.
Banker mae offer a "werkout" or "lone modification".
If yu kan afford it, take it. But yu gotta get seereeus.
Make a budget...analyze yer reel inkun & outgo. & be reelistik.
Yu gotta deside if yu kan afford the hous. If yu kant, muv out
& find sumthang cheeper.
munee problems...underwater, upside down, short sale
Resent problem if "upside down"...Yu bi hous for 700,000$ & now
if yu tri tu sell it, the oenlee offer is 500,000$ (or no offers).
yu oe more on morgage than the hous is werth. Yu kan tri tu sell the
hous tu banker & then banker rite it off as a bad debt.
Maby banker will aksept a "short sale"...yu sale hous for wotever it
will bring in & banker agree tu take that. Banker mae not duit.
Legally, yu oe evree penee the lone doks sae yu du. If yu sell hous
for less than yer debt tu banker, yu stil oe banker the dif.
If banker forgiv sum av the munee yu oe him, that is a taxabel gift from him.
Him send yu a 1099 next yeer & yu gotta pae fed inkum tax onit.
If yu let the forkloes go thru, yu still oe banker a lotta do.
Banker sell yer hous & the take is less than the $ yu oe banker.
Banker kan still kum at yu & tri tu kollekt all the munee...make yer life
living hell.
7. Borro yer wae outta debt. Oft this start with a "lone konsoladashun"
Maxed out 8 kredit kards? Take out 1 simpel eezee-pae lone & pae em off.
Maby yu borro ginst home. Next thang yu bak deep in debt &
luze hous. Basik problem with such skeems is yu...yu keep on spend
just like B4. Thats how yu maxed out the kredit kards.
Thats how a yeer later, yu maxed em out agin.
Anuther problem is most so-kalled lone konsoladaters R krooks.
597. mutual funds
USA: 54 milyun famlees hav munee in mutual funds
80% hav stok funds, 49% munee fund, 44% bonds
tipikal fund persun...inkum=68,700$, hav 48,000$ in funds
total assets=125,000$
48 yeers old
half R kollej grad
598. muve (move in krat speek)
In normal times, 4% av US muve tu different addres eech yeer
muve tu different state (Sensus Buro)
2006 2.2 milyun
2007 1.6 mil
599. muvee Holywood has made 19 Drakula muvees
in 1939, holywood made 2 muvees/dae
India make more muvees than Holywood
India make bout 1000 muvees/yeer (3/dae)
***** muvee in muvee "Don Juan", Jon Barrymore kissed 191 times
Gon with the wind...studio intervyued 1,400 for the part av Skarlet O'Hara, found 1
Jimmy Steward terned down part av Ret Butler...sed film wood be a disaster
no muvees in Saudi Arabia...banned
***** muvee stars...Graes Kelly was first on a stamp...April 1956 wen wed Prins Raeneer av Monako
Mary Pikford was Kanadian, reel name=Gladys Mary Smith.
Jakkee Gleesun 1st muvee plae Minnasota Fats in "Hustler"
***** muvee take ("gross receipts" in krat speek)
1. Titanik (1997) 600.8 milyun $
2. Star Wars 4, hope (1977) 461.0 (original Star Wars)
3. Shrek 2 (2004) 436.7
4. ET=XtraTerrestral (1982) 435.0
5. Star Wars 1 (fantom Menas) (1999) 431.1
6. Pirats Ded Mans Chest (2006) 409.1
7. Spider man (2002) 403.7
8. Star Wars 3 (Sith Revenj) (2005) 380.3
9. Lord av Rings: king retern (2003) 377.0
10. Spider man 2 (2004) 373.4
11. Pashun av Krist (2004) 370.3
fascinating facts
600. muzeem Smithsonian was started bi munee James Smithson left in his will.
Smithson was never in Amerika.
muzeem hav 30 milyun fossils & 24 milyun insekts
601. muzik Mozart died at 36, broke. Dont no weer burreed, but sum sae in a paupers grave.
602. naels fingernaels gro 4 times as fast as toenaels
Toenael take 5 months tu gro out length that sho
603. name pen name, stage name, nik name
Pretend name av akters (stage, muvees, TV)
staej name reel name
Alan Alda Alfonso D'Abruzzo
Woody Allen Allen Konigsberg
Julee Andrues Julia Wells
Ann-Margret Ann-Margret Olson
Fred Astair Fred Auserlitz
Lauren Bakall Betty Joen Perske
Jack Benny Benjamin Kubelsky
David Ben-Gurion David Green
Irving Berlin Israel Baline
Mel Brooks Melvin Kaminsky
Vikter Borge Borge Rosenbaum
Richard Burton Richard Jenkins
Chubby Checkers Ernest Evans
patsy Cline Virginia Patterson Hensley
Claudet Colbert Lily Chauchoin
Joen Crawford Lucill La Sueur
Doris Dae Doris von Kappelhoff
Rodney Dangerfeeld Jacob Cohen
Kim Darby Derby Zerby
Jon Denver Henry Jon Deutschendorf jr
Bo Derek Mary Cathleen Collins
Marleen Dietrich Maria Magdalena von Losch
Filis Diller Filis Driver
Kirk Douglas Issur Danielovitch
Greta Garbo Greta Gustaffson
Judy Garland Fransis Gum
James Garner James Bumgarner
Whoopi Goldberg Caryn Johnson
Kary Grant Archibald Leech
Charlton Heston Jon Charlton Carter
William Holden William Beedel
Bop Hope Leslie Townes Hope
Michael Keaton Michael Douglas
Tony Kurtis Benard Schwartz
Veronica Lake Konstance Ockelman
Gypsy Rose Lee Rose Louise Hovick
Madonna Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Barry Manilow Barry Alan Pincus
Deen Martin Dino Krosetti
Walter Matthau Walter Matuschanskayasky
Marylin Monroe Norma Jeen Baker
Mikkee Roonee Joe Yule
Minnie Pearl Sarah Ophelia Cannon
Mary Pikford Gladys Mary Smith
Elvis Preslee Elvis Preslee
Ginger Rogers Virginia McMath
Roy Rogers Leonard franklin Slye
Omar Sharif Michael Shalhoub
Dinah Shore Franses Shore
Rudolf Valentino Rudolfo D'Antonguolla
Jon Wayne Marion Morrison
Natalee Wood Natasha Gurdin
Loretta Young Gretchen Michaels
***** other fake names:
Joe Stalin Joseph Dzhugashvili
604. navy USA navy ship names:
battelships after states, subs after fish, kruizers after sitees, destroyers after navy heroes
sepshun: Nautilus...it was name av Robert Fulton's steem boet
& name Jules Vern yuzed for sub in 20,000 leegs under see.
605. neanderthal man had bigger braen than modern man
606. ners "nurse" in krat speek
number nerses in United States (grad & hav a job)
yeer number
1955 430,000
1960 504,000
1970 700,000
nersing home: most old folks in nersing homes die from dazeez em katch theer
607. nervs humans hav bout 45 miles av nervs. No wunder yer nervus.
see also...braen
Nerv sells liv as long as yu. If it die or get killed, dont gro bak.
signals go along nervs up tu 250 MPH
608. niagara falls=100,000 kubik feet/sekond
609. nikel US koin, modern vershun=8.33% nikel, 91.67% kopper
wate=5.00 grams=0.01102 pounds...90.7 nikels/pound
diameter=0.835 inch (21.21 mm), 1.95 mm thik
fascinating facts
610. nite nites in armer, wen pass in revyu, raesed theer viser so king kan see hu it is
this led tu the military salute
611. Nose nosee werds: snarl, sneer, sneez, snikker, snif, snipe,snivel, snob
snoot, snore, snooty, snort, snot, snout, snub, snuf, snuffel
612. Nova "nova"=greek for nu. Siens: nova=star that suddenly send out much more lite.
Supernova...super-sized nova
Britest supernova put out 1 millyun times as much enerjee as our galaxy
613. numbers wi du we kall em "Arabic" numbers wen Arabs dont yuze em & never did?
"arabic" numbers kum from India. Sum Indian ritings was
translated intu Arabik with the numbers left as Indians rite em.
Yeropeons got em from Arabs & assumed the numbers was also arabik.
614. Nuts squirrels start several milyun trees a yeer bi bury tree seeds
615. Nuzpaper almost half R published in USA
nuzpaper tare veritkal a lot eezeeer than sidewise
kauz the wood fibers that make up the paper R alined vertikal.
wen make paper, the wet pulp go ontu muving belts. The jerk wen belt
muve the pulp kauz most fibers tu aline along the belt.
** USA, 2003: reed nuzpaper 149 ours/persun-yeer
**** nuzprint=the paper em put ink on
1970: USA yuze 9,836,000 tons nuzprint
616. NY Sitee
1626: Dutch bi Manhattan from indians for 24$ werth av trinklets
Sentral park is bigger than Monako (843 akers)
617. oeshun ("ocean" in krat speek) or see ("sea")
***** oeshun: deepest=Mariana Trench=36,198 ft (6.9 mile), neer Filippines
Pacifik oeshun surfus area > area av all land abuv see level
Max deep weer nuff lite tu see: 240 ft
averaej deep=2 miles
***** oeshun area, sq mile aver depth, ft
Pasifik 64,186,300 12,925
Atlantik 33,420,000 11,730
India 28,350,500 12,598
Artik 5,105,700 3,407
** sum=131,062,500
South China See 1,148,500 4,802
Karibbean 971,400 8,448
Mediterranean 969,100 4,926
Bering 873,000 4,893
** sum= 3,962,000
Mexiko Gulf 582,100 5,297
Okhotsk see 537,500 3,192
Japan see 391,100 5,468
** sum= 1,510,700
Hudson Bae 281,900 305
Eest China See 256,600 620
Andaman See 218,100 3,667
Blak See 196,100 3,906
Red See 174,900 1,764
North See 164,900 308
Baltik See 147,500 180
Yello See 113,500 121
Pershia Gulf 88,800 328
Kalifornya Gulf 59,100 2,375
** sum= 1,701,400
total area av sees=138,236,600 square mile
618. oil
***** oil is the dekomposed remaens av old plankton, milyuns av yeers old
werld yuze bout 1 kubik mile av krude oil/yeer
Oil kum in grades based on how much sulfur init. sweet=lo sulfur.
2008: US oil yuze averaej 19.4 milyun barrels/dae, down 6% from 2007
2007: US imported 3,661,404,000 barrels av oil in 2007
biggest supplier=Kanada, then Saudi Arabia, Mexiko
trivia: 1 gal yuzed oil kan ruin 1 milyun gal fresh water
USA yuze 24.5 barels/(persun-yeer)
2005...werld get 84.34 milyun barrels av oil outta the ground
berned 83.84 milyun barrels
*************** oil output bi kuntree, latest estimate (2004-2006)
werld 83,000,000 barrel/dae
1. Saudi Arabia 9,475,000
2. Rushya 9,400,000
3. United States 7,610,000
4. Iran 3,979,000
5. Red China 3,631,000
6. Mexiko 3,420,000
7. Norwae 3,220,000
8. Kanada 3,135,000
9. Venezuela 3,081,000
10. Arab Emir 2,540,000
11. Nigeria 2,451,000
12. Kuwait 2,418,000
13. Iraq 2,130,000
14. England 2,075,000
15. Libya 1,720,000
see also...enerjee
619. OK sum sae "ok" started with nikname "old Kinderhook"
for president Martin Van Buren (born in Kinderhook, NY).
Others sae if kum from Andru Jaksun "old korrekt".
Jaksun spelled thangs his wae & refuzed tu duit like the
dam aristokrats on the eest koest insist yu gotta.
Later, Harrison yuzed slogan "old Korrekt" & named the bar
weer him lived "OK tavern"
Harrison defeeted Van Buren, so I ges it pae tu liv in a bar.
fascinating facts
620. OK Korral: 26 Okt 1881: Gunfite in Toombstone, Arazona was NOT at the
Ok Korral. It was emptee lot bout 100 ft eest av ok korral.
621. old folk...number folks in US 65+
1900 3,080,000 4.1%
1950 12,270,000 8.1
1960 16,560,000 9.2
1970 20,066,000 9.9
1980 25,549,000 11.3
1990 31,242,000 12.6
2000 34,992,000 12.4
2005 36,790,000 12.4
2050 86,705,000 22.1 (projekted)
**** old folks...median inkum av 65+=16,443$/yeer (2006)
SS =40% av theer inkum
wages=25%
**** old folks...hav 25% av US "assets" (value av stuff minus liabilities)
**** old: old werkers...% av 65+ men hu still werk
1890 68.5%
1900 63.1
1920 55.6
1940 41.8
1960 33.1
1970 26.8
1980 19.0
1990 16.3
2000 17.7
2005 19.8
** old ironsides=nikname for ship=Konstitushun...enemy iron balls bouns off the side
its made from oek
622. on the wagon in 1800's kommon tu hav water wagons=big wood tank with weels
Later slang "on the wagon"=sumwon hu tri tu quit drinking
623. organ Skin is body's biggest organ
Liver is biggest organ inside body
624. orient Guvt krats ban the werd "orient", sae yu gotta yuze "aeshiatik"
sae orient & Amerika thank China or Japan.
In Yerrop, em thank India
625. ostrich =biggest bird, 8 ft tall, up tu 280 pounds...dont fli
it is a fether-kuvered ball with 2 long legs & 1 long nek with small hed.
kan run at 40 MPH
ostrich ie (ieball=eye in krat speek) is bigger than its braen
1 ostrich aeg=24 chicken aegs=3 pounds
sum sae ostrich burry its hed in the sand. Rong.
sumtimes it put hed in lo spot or even in a hole...looking for water.
626. pae ("compensation" or "salary" or "earnings" or "wages"
or "renumination" in krat speek)
Werld: 20% make < 1$/dae
United States (USA) ("compensation av employees" in krat speek)
("wage & salary disbursements"...different krat)
********** USA take home pae, Feb 2008: 430 bilyun $/month
but during housing boom (2003-2006), folks take out from hous:
40 bilyun $/month...xtra 9% & spend all av it
** pae kollej grad pae in 1980=40,000$ (konstant dollars)
in 2004=43,500$
wow!!! yer pae go up 8.7% in 24 yeers...0.35%/yeer
June 2007: Averaej werker pae=589.52 $/week (guvt sae so)
pae go up 36.5% over last 10 yeers
flate rate 33.7% over same time span
However, medikal kosts (even with kumpanee inshuer) go up
so much, yer pae after medikal bills is DOWN
** pae stats from US buro av laber stats...pae rates in US (Des 2006)
privat non farm averaej pae=17.05$/hr
bilders 20.55
faktrees 18.34
finans 19.22
manufaktcher 17.10
mines 20.42
other servis 14.85
professhunal 19.69
puters, comm, info 23.89
retael 12.52
teech 17.68 ("instructional staff" in krat speek)
trades 15.39
tuerist trade 10.03
yutilitees 27.43
** pae trivia
USA wemen get paed bout 76% av men
(raw number, not adjusted tu kompare male & female with same job)
sept...female kollej professers, not married & hav never had an artikel published
R paed 145% av wot male profs get
temp & part time females R paed 10% more than males
investment bankers...females get 16% more
never-married wemen get 6% more than never-married men
female Aesyun kollej grad make 16% more than nonaesyun female kollej grads
** pae Sitee werkers...United States
manufacture postal
yeer ours/week $/our ours/wk $/our
1890 60.0 0.199 48 0.352
1900 59.0 0.216 48 0.371
1910 56.6 0.260 48 0.420
1920 51.0 0.663 48 0.739
1925 50.3 0.645 47.2 0.836
** pae nonfarm
** pae all full-time "nonagricultural" werkers in United States
** pae after adjust for times outta werk (unemployment in krat speek)
yeer $/yeer 1914 dollars
1914 555 555
1915 547 541
1916 647 595
1917 647 586
1918 972 648
1919 1,117 648
** pae nonfarm
1920 1,236 619
1921 1,009 566
1922 1,067 639
1923 1,231 725
1924 1,196 702
1925 1,253 717
1926 1,310 743
1927 1,312 759
1928 1,297 759
1929 1,405 793
** pae nonfarm
1930 1,368 725
1931 1,275 657
1932 1,120 554
1933 1,048 526
1934 1,091 569
1935 1,137 584
1936 1,184 633
1937 1,258 704
1938 1,230 641
1939 1,264 699
** pae nonfarm
1940 1,299 754
1941 1,443 861
1942 1,709 1,025
1943 1,951 1,190
1944 2,109 1,289
1945 2,190 1,284
1946 2,359 1,205
1947 2,589 1,108
1948 2,786 1,164
1949 2,844 1,156
** pae nonfarm
1950 2,992 1,237
1951 3,217 1,279
1952 3,402 1,331
1953 3,581 1,391
1954 3,667 1,375
1955 3,851 1,461
1956 4,055 1,519
1957 4,230 1,534
1958 4,375 1,550
1959 4,594 1,592
** pae nonfarm
1960 4,743 1,620
1961 4,884
1962 5,065
1963 5,243
1964 5,503
1965 5,710
1966 5,967
1967 6,230
1968 6,657
1969 7,095
**
1970 7,564
** pae FARM werkers...United States
yeer $/month
1818 9.45
1830 8.85
1850 10.85
1860 13.66
1870 16.57
1880 11.70
1890 13.93
1900 14.56
1910 21.30
1919 41.52
1929 40.40
1940 28.05
1948 91.00
** pae teecher ("instructional staff" in krat speek)
"publik elementary & secondary dae skuels"
yeer $/yeer
1910 485
1915 543
1920 871
1926 1,277
1930 1,420
1940 1,441
1950 3,010
1960 5,174
1970 8,840
** pae kollej teecher "annual salary"
yeer $/yeer
1929 3,056
1930 3,065
1935 2,666
1940 2,906
1945 3,277
1950 4,354
1952 5,106
1956 5,243
1960 6,711
1965 8,163
1970 11,745
** pae Military offiser enlisted
yeer $/yeer $/yeer
1865 717 202
1898 2,101 205
1918 2,141 417
1945 2,442 856
1955 5,004 1,672
1960 5,972 2,013
1965 7,130 2,310
1970 9,861 3,399
fascinating facts
627. Paedae lone
a fyu dollars, short term..."til paedae" lone
small "store-fronts" lone the desperat based on pechek or kar titel
For yu hu hav a hard time tu get bi til next paedae
Tu get a lone, yu sho pae stub from prior paedae.
Similar stores: giv em titel tu the kar (if yu hav 1).
1 zampel in Kleevland...effektiv interest rate=396%
Ohio hav more paedae lone stores than (McDonalds+BurgerKing+Wendys)
Sum insist yu rite em a chek for the 100$ lone+ 15$.
If yu dont pae off the lone next week or 2, em deposit the chek.
If yu kant pae, em roll it over & charj 45$.
The study in Kleevland sed average lone rolled 12-15 times.
Bout 10 milyun folks got a paedae lone in 2006.
628. Paent most paed for a paenting=135 milyun$ Nu Galeee, NYS, 19 Jun 2006
1907 pik bi Austrian Gustav Klimt.
seller=Mary Altman av Austria
629. Palindrome=a sentens the same forward or bak
zampel: a man, a plan, a kanal...Panama
he lived as a devil eh?
red rum, sir, is murder
fascinating facts
630. Panama
From mountain top, yu kan see sun kum up on Pasifik & set on the Atlantik (Karribean See)
Panama hat=straw hat from Kolumbia. From bak wen panama was part
av Kolumbia. Lotta Amerikans bi it in shops in Panama.
Lokals kall it a planters hat.
Panama Kanal: open in 1914. Bout 51 miles long.
If yu go thru Panama kanal from Atlantik tu Pasifik, yu go
mostlee south & a littel eest (not west).
From Nu York tu San Fran: save 7,800 miles bi kanal insted
av go thru straets av Magellan at south tip av South Amerika.
631. Panda nuborn=4owns (less than a mous)
631. Paper USA yuze 360 pounds av paper/persun-yeer
***** Paper trivia: US yuze wood+paper per yeer =a tree 100 ft tall with 16 inch trunk.
"paper & paperbord production"...milyun tons
yeer total paper paperbord bords
1990 80.45 39.36 39.32 1.77
2000 96.05 45.52 48.97 1.56
2003 89.81 40.37 48.02 1.42
how much paper US yuze ("consumption" in krat speek), milyun tons
yeer total nuzprint paper "package" "tissue"
tu rite on (kardbord) (toilet paper & kleenix)
1990 49.49 13.41 25.96 4.72 5.90
2000 57.13 12.92 32.99 4.27 6.95
2003 53.19 11.05 31.00 3.96 7.18
632. Paper klip...Jon Vaaler got patent in 1901 & get kredit, even tho
Will Middelbrook av Waterbury, Konn got patent in 1899.
Vaaler was from Norwae & had drawings from 1899 (Norwae did not hav patents then)
1901 GEM kumpany invent the 2-ovals we hav tudae.
633. Parachute invented in 1783, Luis Lenormand. Tu save sumwon hu jump outta bering bilding.
1797...Jak Garnerin jumped from balloon with a parachute.
634. Parent yungest parents...aejes=8 & 9, China, 1910
635. Park United States
Biggest sitee park=South Mountin Park in Fenix, Arazona:
16,000 akers.
USA hav 391 nashunal parks, monuments, historikal plaeses
beeches, wild life preserv, ets
this dont inklude forests
yeer number size visits
mil akers
1850+ 1 0.001
1880+ 2 1.921 [yellostone]
1890 3 2.889
1895 10 3.287
1900 12 3.300
1905 15 3.471 141,000
1910 44 5.998 199,000
1915 49 5.880 335,000
1920 63 8.452 1,058,000
1925 82 9.987 2,055,000
1930 99 10.581 3,247,000
1935 129 15.115 7,676,000
1940 160 20.762 16,755,000
1945 168 22.126 11,714,000
1950 179 23.836 33,253,000
1955 182 23.924 56,573,000
1960 187 25.704 79,229,000
1965 214 26.549 121,312,000
1970 282 28.543 172,005,000
1970:35 nashunal parks, 85 monuments, 120 historik sites
5 parkwaes, 13 rek areas, 7 seeshores, 8 kapital parks
rek="recreational"=fun plaes
636. Parking
parking...Mahattan hav 16,400 parking meters
parking meter invented in 1935, Karl Magee, Okla Sitee
637. Patent
1 site sae...Abe Linkoln=oenlee president tu get a patent
dif site sae Jefferson invented the hideawae bed, kalander klok.
Edisun filed 1,093 patents, 34 for fones
141 for batterees, 150 for telegraf,
389 for lite & power
in 1894 Edisun make film for kamras (replaes glass plates with kemikals)
USA has issued 94 patents for shave mugs
Resent prolifik: Shunpei Yamazaki hav 372 patents (1997)
**** patent...2 cheefs av US patent offis rekmended the offis be kloesed
kauz em klaemed evreethang that kan be invented has ben.
******** number patents...appli & issue, United States
---------- appli ------------- number
yeer total invent dezine plants issued
1790 3
1795 12
**
1800 41
1805 57
1810 223
1815 173
1820 155
1825 304
1830 544
1835 752
**
1836 400 111
1840 765 477
1845 1,246 502
1850 2,193 986
1855 4,435 1,992
1860 7,653 4,589
1865 10,664 6,490
1870 19,171 13,518
1875 21,638 14,769
1879 20,059 13,364
**
1880 22,395 21,761 634 12,903
1885 35,559 34,697 862 23,285
1890 40,930 39,884 1,046 25,313
1895 40,608 39,145 1,463 20,856
**
number patents...appli & issue, United States
---------- appli ------------- number
yeer total invent dezine plants issued
1900 41,898 39,673 2,225 24,644
1905 54,815 54,034 781 29,775
1910 64,448 63,293 1,155 35,141
1915 69,872 67,138 2,734 43,118
1920 82,375 81,915 4,660 37,060
1925 84,290 80,208 4,082 46,432
1930 93,752 89,554 4,182 16 45,226
1935 63,917 58,117 5,728 72 40,618
1940 69,484 60,863 8,530 91 42,238
1945 75,964 67,846 8,066 52 25,695
1950 64,108 57,264 6,739 105 43,040
1955 83,070 77,188 5,764 118 30,432
1960 84,246 79,590 4,525 131 47,170
1965 100,150 94,632 5,413 105 62,857
1970 109,052 102,868 5,996 188 64,427
**
1990 99,200
1995 113,800
2000 176,000
2004 181,300
638. Pawn shop
wi R 3 gold balls (or rings) the simbel for pawn shop?
from the Medici famlee in Italy in middel aejes.
It was the famlee symbel. Em put the symbel on theer shops, stores, ets.
In time em had a lotta pawn shops & folks kame tu thank it stood for pawn shop.
639. PBX is a lokal fone "system"...fones on the lokal bus kan kall eech other
many hotels/motels/resorts/kasinos, ets yuze em
em yuzyually set the fone number tu the room number.
most biz's hav a pbx at eech plant or site
yuyually yu input 9 tu get outside line.
9 bekause less likely tu konflikt with room number
sum plaeses set 8 for long distans kalls
sum wont let yu kall long dist, not even tu a 800 number.
number digits for inside kalls depend on how many fones.
fascinating facts
640. PC=personal puter
number pcs (2006)
1. United States 230.4 milyun
2. Japan 73.7
3. Red China 63.5
4, Jermany 50.4
5. England 38.6
6. Frans 32.4
7. S Korea 28.4
8. Italy 26.0
9. Kanada 23.8
641. pee ("urine" in krat speek)
Yu pee 1.5 quarts/dae or 12,000 gallons in 70 yeers
642. peenut is not a nut. It is in legume famlee wich inklue beens & pees
** peenuts (komiks) Charlee Brown's dad is a barber
643. Peeping tom...lejund sae Tom the taeler drilled hole thru shutter tu
look at Godiva as her ride bi on hoers
644. Pen USA thro awae 1.6 bilyun ball point pens/yeer
645. Penguin oenlee bird that swim & kant fli
sum birds dive intu water tu katch fish
sum birds paddel with feet=muve along the surfus
646. penee modern US penee is 97.5% zink with kopper koet
if yu flip a penee many times, yu get more taels than heds
The hed side buldj out a littel & off-balans the koin
penee=2.50 grams, so hav 181.4 penees/pound=1.81$
diameter=0.75 inch, 1.55 mm thik (0.06 inch)
647. penshun % av "private-sekter" werkers hu hav a "defined-benefit" penshun
1974 43.7%
2004 16.8%
648. pensil First pensil was a brush av haers inside a reed.
1 pensil kan draw line 35 miles long, or rite 50,000 werds
US yuze 2 bilyun pensils/yeer
1 tree=wood for 170,000 pensils
tests alwaes sae tu yuze a #2 pensil. Wotz a #2?
pensils kum in hardness, 1=soft, 2=medium-soft, 3=sumwot hard, 4=hard
in praktis, all pensils yu find in stores R # 2
1564: England: wrap string round grafite stik tu make pensil.
Jermans first tu put grafite rod inside wood stik.
1765: Nicolas Konte in Frans mixed grafite with klae kauz
Frans lakked good soers av grafite. Put it in kilm tu dri
the klae. Same as pensil tudae.
1858 Hyman Lipman in USA patent: put rubber eraser on end av pensil.
649. Pentagon
***** pentagon trivia: It is in Virjinya, wich had segregrate laws bak in 1942
& thus bilt with 2 times the normal number av bathrooms
tu provide for separate blak & with toilets
eech outside wall is 921.6 ft long
take 20 minuts tu walk round the outter hall
base area=29 akers+ senter kortyard av 34 akers
bilt in 16 months... 11 Sep 1941 tu 15 Jan 43
17.5 miles av halls
3,705,793 sq ft av offis
200,000 fone kalls/dae
24,000 werkers
691 water drink spot
284 bathrooms
3 eeterees+6 snak bars
parking...16 lots with 8,770 slots
post offis...(separate bilding neerbi) 1,200,000 (letters+pakkaejes)/yeer
subwae...has most traffik av NE exit in Wash DC area
fascinating facts
650. Perl Harber: 7 Des 1941: US destroyer Ward sank Jap midjet sub off Perl Harber
at 0645. This leed sum tu klaem US started the war bi fire the
first shot. Jap planes drop first bombs bout 0800.
But jap planes took off, formed up, & hed for PH bi 0500.
7 Des 1944: Jap kamikaze planes sink the Ward in Filippines.
651. Perls perls dissolv in vinegar
652. Persunal ad...35% av persunal ads R maerreed
653. Pet USA + Yerrop spend 17 bilyun $/yeer on pet food
654. Pet rok 1,000,000 pet roks sold in 1975. 1 man in Kalifornya mae 1,000,000$ from it.
655. pi as av 2005, most presise value av pi is tu 1.24 trilyun plaeses
pi=4*[1-(1/3)+(1/5)-(1/7)+(1/9)-(1/11)+...]
656. Piano hav 88 kees, 55 wite & 33 blak
657. Pig most kommon meet folks eet all over werld...pig meet (pork)
China hav half the pigs on erth.
"swet like a pig" is nonsens...pigs dont swet
658. Pijun ("pigeon" in krat speek)
Theer was 2 bilyun passenjer pijuns in USA in 1880
In 1914 theer was 0.
659. pilgrim (pilgrum)
relijus disidents from England land in Mass in Des, 1620
see also: plymouth
fascinating facts
660. Pineappel is not a pine & not an appel & dont taest like it eether
started in Brazil & Paraguay
was kommon in Sentral Amerika wen Kolumbus kame
mostly tropikal but survive breef freez. Tolerate wide raenj av raenfall.
prefer asid dirt (ph=5-6)
kanned in 1901.
in 1911 Henree Ginaca invented masheen tu remuve the outter shell & inner kore.
Hawaii suppli 60% av kanned pineappel
yu gro it bi budding from krown av old plant.
Take 18 months tu make fruit.
nutrishun...no fat, no chlosterol, lo sodium, hi Vitamin C
45 kalorees/owns. 1 kup kanned with juis=510 kal
pineappel hav enzime "papain" that brake down proteens
yu kant add pineappel tu jello mix kauz it digest the gelatin
yu kan yuze kanned pineappel kauz the heet wipe out the enzime
661. Pinokchio...is italian for "pine ie"
662. pipeline longest is gas pipe from Rushya's Siberia tu West Yerrop...bout 6 megameters.
663. piramid Piramids in Egypt hav nuff rok tu make wall 5ft*10ft from Nu York tu LA (pyramid in krat)
664. piramid skeem...a krooked wae tu make munee bi sell fools on komishun.York tu LA
("pyramid scheem" in krat speek)
Founder make a % av wot others sell (a kommisshun)
All sellers make a % av sales av others em rekruit tu sell more.
It depend on ever more salesmen hu sell tu ever more biers
It mae werk at first so founders get rich. But most luze munee.
665. pizza Amerika eet 18 akers/dae
666. plae
Many thank Humpree Bogart sed "plae it agin Sam" in muvee
Kasablanka. Rong. Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa) sed:
"Plae it, Plae 'As Time go bi'"
The akter at the piano ("doolee" Wilson) did not plae.
Him sing. Studio dub in the piano later.
667. plae kard...for kard games such as poker
**** plae kard...Pershya & India had em around 1150...had 48 kards
invented bout 900ad in India or China
kings R historik
diamont=Julius Seesar
hart=Charlemane
klub=Alexander the grate
Spade=David
no mustach on harts
*** poker...std 52 kard dek yeeld 2,598,960 5-kard hands
1,088,240 hav 1 paer
123,552 2 paers
54,912 3 av a kind
10,200 strates
5,108 flushes
3,744 full hous
624 4 av 1 kind
36 strate flush
4 royal flush
***** plae: "dont plae with a full dek": in England many yeers ago:
Guvt tax the aes av spades, so sum bi a dek without that kard.
The hi & miteee klaem em 2 cheep, ie "plae without a full dek"
Hav sins kum tu meen dum ("stupid" in krat speek)
668. plaeg (blak plaeg) ("plague" in krat speek) also kalled the blak deth.
Medikans kall it "blubonik plaeg" & "numonik plaeg"
estimated 75 milyun ded. Yerrop: 20 milyun ded=bout 1/3 av all.
blak plaeg hit Konstandnopel on the waterfront in 1347.
Sweep thru Yerrop in waves in dif areas & bout 25 yeers apart.
Look like it died out in Yerrop in the 1700's.
***** plaeg: Weer did it kum from?
Best ges: Mongols got the plaeg first & spred it evreeweer em went.
infekted rats in kargo ships from India spred it tu Yerrop.
It swept Yerrop in waves thru the 1771 plaeg in Moskow.
At peek, bout 50% died. estimated 75 milyun ded.
The 1300's was a period av famin, wars, & the "littel Ies Aej"
with much kold & raen that ruined krops...many starved.
evreewon was hungree=week & less rezistant tu dazeez.
London, 1665: 7000/week die av blak deth. Then fire bern down London.
Rebild London with briks=get rid av thach roofs & never agin is
the blak deth a problem in London.
1907...bubonik plaeg kill 1.3 milyun in India
**
Rats karry the dazeez but R immune. Then flees transfer it tu mankind.
vekter=bakteria Yersinia pestis.
*** now kalled the bubonik & numonik plaeg. kommon form=bubonik.
bubonik...lymph nodes swell: "buboes" on skin uez pus & blood=dark blotches.
yu die in 4-7 daes. deth rate=50%.
numonik vershun kan be spred wen yu koff if sumwon breeth the bakteria in the aer.
Then dazeez is in lungs & throet & result look very different.
deth rate=95%.
669. planets all planets revolv round sun in same direkshun and neer the same plane
most planets rotate same direkshun as revolv
Venus rotate in oppisit direkshun from most planets
Neptue axis is 85 degrees tu orbit plane (very straenj)
biggest=Jupiter. Jupiter volume > sum av all other planets+asteroids+komets+moons
hav 63 moons as av Des 2006. first 4 R big=Galileo moons.
****** extrasolar...astronomers look for planets around other stars
or "exoplanet"
2006...193 planets round 96 stars
2007...230 planets
most R inferred bi planet chaenj path av the star (perturb)
this find big planets best. Much harder tu find small planets.
smallest found so far=5 erth masses...as av 25 April 2007
Star=Gliese 581=a red dwarf, 20.5 lite yeers awae
planet very kloes tu star=a dwarf that giv out very littel lite.
so predikted planet temperature=bout same as Erth.
fascinating facts
670. plants 85% av plant life is in the sees (oeshun)
671. plastik take estimated 50,000 yeers tu dekae
Werld yuze 100 bilyun plastik bags/yeer
672. platinum good grade ore...2 milyun pounds av ore tu get 1 pound platinum
673. platypus or duk-billed platypus
straenj mammal in Austraelya: it look like duk & lae aegs.
Mammal kauz it hav milk. It hav bill tu skuep up streem bottom.
Webbed feet. No eers, no teeth.
674. plymouth, Mass: pilgrums land Des 1620. Em kall it Plimouth
Des 1620: 102 Pilgrims land on beech at "plymouth rok".
next spring: 55 left (rest die)
no "plymouth rok"...em land on sand beech.
1607: Jorj Popham started a settelment in Maen at mouth av the
Kennebek River. Mae 1607: em giv up & sael bak tu England.
14 Mae 1607: Jamestown, Vir=first permanent English settel in North Amerika
1 web site sae pilgrums brot kows over in 1611 (RONG)
675 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis=blak lung dazeez in medikan speek
676. poem Emily Dikenson rote 900 poens, but oenlee got 4 published wile alive
677. poinsetta named after Joe R Poinset=Amerikan minister tu Mexiko around 1870
678. politiks kost...US...Nov 2006 lekshun kost 2.8 bilyun $
based on data the kanidates hafta report tu feds
527 "issue advokatsee grueps" registered with the feds
** politikal kartuen...Ben Franklin, 1754...sho snake kut in 8 peeses.
679. poll 1981 poll:
Yerropeons hate & feer Ronald Raegan more than Hitler, Bresnev, & Qaddafi
fascinating facts
680. pollute averaej hous pollute more than averaj kar
We need aer pollute, kauz water in aer gotta kondens on sumthang
tu make raen. Water mostly kondens on dust in the aer.
681. Pony xpress didnt hav ponys, it yuzed hoerses
from Apr 1860 tu Oct 1861...then the telegraf put it outta biz
took 10 daes in summer,