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August 28 through September 3 is World Water Week, an opportune time for Tidbits to communicate some details about the clear, colorless, odorless liquid we know as water!

• Everyone has referred to water as H2O at some point, a reference to its chemical formula. Each water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen atom.

Water exists in three different states – liquid, solid (ice), and gas (steam or water vapor).

It’s the most common substance on Earth.

• About 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, about 326 million cubic miles of water. Of that water, 96.5% is salt water found in seas and oceans, and is not fit for consumption. Another 1.7% is in groundwater, another 1.7% in glaciers and ice caps, and a small fraction in other smaller bodies of water. Less than 0.3% of all fresh water is found in rivers, lakes, and in the atmosphere. Less than 1% of fresh water is available for human consumption. Over 90% of the world’s fresh water is in Antarctica!

• Every 2.2 lbs. of sea water contains about 1.2 oz. of dissolved salt. The more salt in the water, the lower the freezing point. Sea water with an average level of salt freezes at 28.4°F.

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• Water boils at 212°F at normal conditions at sea level. However, water’s boiling point changes according to the barometric pressure, boiling at 154°F on top of Mt. Everest.

• About 65% of the human body is made up of water.

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• Water intoxication, known as hyponatremia, occurs when a person drinks too much water too quickly. This is the result of the water diluting the bloodstream’s sodium level, causing an imbalance of water in the brain. A person might experience confusion, disorientation, nausea, and vomiting, which can lead to seizures, coma, and even death. About 6.3 qts. can kill a 165-lb. person.

• Ever wonder why ice floats on water? It’s because frozen water is 9% lighter than water!

• To be considered “saline” water, it only takes one-thousandth of the weight of water from salt, to be dubbed “salty.” ...continued

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• The U.S. and Canada are the world’s largest consumers of water. About 346,000 million gallons of fresh water are used across the U.S. every day. How are we using this water? About half of America’s water usage is related to the generation of thermoelectric power. The average home will use over 100,000 gallons in a year. It takes 70 gallons just to fill the bathtub.

Depending on the shower head, a five-minute shower will use between 15 and 25 gallons.

The largest use of water in the home is flushing the toilet, with the average use between 80 and 100 gallons per day for this activity. In fact, flushing the toilet just one less time per day could save a lake measuring 1 mile x 1 mile x 4 feet deep. Just one less gallon of water per shower every day would save 85 billion gallons of water in a year.

• It takes over 42,000 gallons of water to fill a 30x50-foot swimming pool. That pool will lose about 1,000 gallons a month to natural evaporation.

• Every day around the world, 2.5 billion gallons of water are used to irrigate golf courses.

• It takes about 6,800 gallons of water to grow one day’s worth of food for a family of four.

• If you think you’re saving water by washing dishes by hand, consider that this will use seven times more water than using your dishwasher.

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• About 85% of U.S. residents receive their water from the • The first water pipes were made from fireover 54,000 public water facilities across the country. The charred bored-out logs. Today, there are about average resident might use 175 gallons per day compared to one million miles of water pipes and aqueducts 5 gallons used by the average African family, who typically in the U.S. and Canada, enough to circle the walk an average of 3.7 miles a day to collect that water. globe 40 times.

Every day, 200 million hours are used by women collecting • Because the Earth’s water is being constantly water around the world. recycled, you might take a drink of water today • About 780 million people across the globe have no access that existed during the era of the dinosaurs. to an improved water source. About 80% of illness in de• If you have “hard water” in your area, this reveloping countries is water-related, with 3.4 million people fers to a higher amount of dissolved calcium perishing each year from water-related causes. Two hunand magnesium in the water. This doesn’t presdred children die every hour from unsafe water. ent a health issue, but hard water does contrib• Bottled water consumption continues to rise every year, ute to a mineral buildup in your plumbing fixwith the average American drinking over 30 gallons a tures and water heater, along with causing poor year. Total sales exceed $13 billion annually, yet out of all performance of soaps and detergents. the water used each year, bottled water accounts for only 0.01%.

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• It was 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire who made the following sage observation: "What's irritating about love is it's a crime that requires an accomplice."

• In 2012, a Swedish man named Henrik Ismarker was fed up with people speeding down the road in his Stockholm neighborhood, so he went to the local police department and asked them to crack down on drivers going too fast.

In response, a speed trap was set up, and Ismarker himself got a speeding ticket the very next day. He was embarrassed, he said, but added that he was "very satisfied with the police response."

• Thanks to extremely flexible jaws, the African egg-eating snake can swallow an egg that's much larger than the diameter of its head. It also can tell with a flick of the tongue whether an egg is fresh or not.

• Those who study such things say that if you start to lose your hearing, it's more than likely that you'll lose high notes before you lose low notes.

• According to a recent study, kids in the South have more playtime with their parents than kids in other parts of the United States. In a nationwide survey of parents with children ages 2 to 8, 76 percent of Southern parents say they play with their kids at least once a day. Compare that to the West at 46 percent, the Midwest at 40 percent and the Northeast at just 38 percent.

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• Another misconception about koalas is that they live in rainforests. They only live in eucalyptus forests in eastern Australian as well as some of that country’s islands. Although there are about 600 different species of eucalyptus trees, the koalas only choose about 12 of those for their habitat and food, preferring those that are at least 30 feet tall. They rarely leave the trees, sleeping for almost 20 hours a day, with their sharp claws gripping the tree. Their metabolic rate is half that of most mammals.

Koalas don’t have much of a social life, spending only about 15 minutes a day in any type of social interaction.

• Koalas are herbivores, subsisting only on the eucalyptus leaves. The fibrous, low-nutrition leaves require most of the koala’s energy to digest. These leaves are extremely poisonous to most animals; however the koala’s special digestive system allows them to remain unharmed by the toxins. A typical koala might eat 2½ lbs. of leaves a day, which causes them to reek of the aroma of eucalyptus oil. There is so much moisture in the leaves that a koala rarely needs to drink water, leading the indigenous tribes to name them boorabees, burrenbong, koolawong, bangaroo, and banjorah, words that translate in Aboriginal languages to “no drink.”

• The koala will grow to a height of 23.5 to 33.5 inches and weigh about 20 lbs. Those in southern Australia grow bigger and have thicker fur than their counterparts in the north. Their brain is very small, 60% smaller than other marsupials, weighing just 0.68 oz.

• A male koala has a scent gland in the middle of his chest that secretes a dark sticky substance. Whenever he enters a new tree, he “marks his territory” by rubbing his chest against the tree’s trunk or branches.

• The life expectancy of a koala in the wild is about 20 years. They have very few natural predators, only dingos and large pythons, plus owls and eagles that prey on their young. The number of koalas is decreasing because of the destruction of their natural habitat, as Australia’s industrial and urban development swallows up the eucalyptus forests. A single koala needs about 100 trees to stay alive. Many koalas die from collisions with vehicles and from attacks by large domestic dogs, about 4,000 a year. In the wild, a koala dies from starvation, as its teeth begin to wear down and they are unable to chew enough to feed themselves properly.

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• Although most of us refer to these animals as koala bears, they are not bears at all, but rather marsupials, or pouched mammals like kangaroos and wombats. Since their appearance is “bear-like,” they are frequently called bears in error.

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• A baby koala about the size of a jelly bean at birth, blind and furless, and is moved into the mother’s pouch shortly afterward where it will remain for six or seven months to continue its development. After it emerges from the pouch, the joey rides on its mother’s back for another six months or so. The young koala isn’t fully weaned until it’s a year old.

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WEST NILE VIRUS RISK FACTORS West Nile virus (WNV) is an infection transmitted by mosquitoes. The mosquito most common for transmitting this virus is one that is widespread throughout the Grand Forks region. This mosquito does not discriminate. People of all ages are susceptible to WNV infection, but the elderly are at higher risk for developing the more severe form of this disease (neuroinvasive illness). Children infected with WNV generally show no symptoms or may have a mild fever.

Risk factors for West Nile virus: • Time of year – The majority of WNV cases occur from July – September.

• Geographic region – The Dakotas have reported some of the highest cases per capita in the United States.

• Time spent outdoors not wearing protective clothing and mosquito repellent – If you work or spend a lot of time outdoors (golfing, gardening, hunting, etc.), you’re at a higher risk of being bitten by mosquitoes.

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• When kneading dough for bread or pizza crust, spray your hands with nonstick cooking spray.

• “To avoid a dirty-smelling hamper, place a single sheet of fabric-softener in the bottom of your laundry closet, or in the hamper itself.” — R.L. in New York • Need to safely carry a bow while you’re transporting a present? Place it inside a zip-lock sandwich bag, close partway, fill with air and seal. The bow will make it to your destination uncrushed, and you can stick it on at the last minute.

• Line junk drawers in the kitchen or bathroom with inexpensive sheets of cork board. Things don’t slide around as much, and you can even use pushpins or finishing nails lightly inserted into the cork to make custom compartments in the drawers.

• If you have trouble with dry shampoo because you have dark hair, look for one that is colored. Or try using dry shampoo at night to give it time to soak up oils and wear off.

• “Write your grocery shopping list on an envelope, so you can tuck coupons inside. Then you can have it all together at the checkout. I also put a sticky note on my debit card that says ‘COUPONS!’ Sometimes it’s the only way I remember to redeem them at checkout.” — A.A. in Florida • To avoid unsightly flour marks on the outside of a cake, just dust the pan with a bit of your cake mix.

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• On Sept. 7, 1911, avant-garde French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and jailed on suspicion of stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." No evidence surfaced, and Apollinaire was released. Two years later, a former employee of the Louvre, Vincenzo Perggia, was arrested while trying to sell the famous painting.

• On Sept. 11, 1921, Fatty Arbuckle, a silent-film era performer at the height of his fame, is arrested in San Francisco for the murder of aspiring actress Virginia Rappe. After two mistrials, the jury in Arbuckle's third trial found him not guilty and even issued him an apology.

• On Sept. 5, 1958, Boris Pasternak's romantic novel "Dr. Zhivago" is published in the United States. The book was banned in the Soviet Union, but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 after admirers smuggled out the manuscript.

• On Sept. 6, 1972, a West German police attempt to rescue nine Israeli Olympic team members held hostage by Palestinian terrorists ends in disaster. All nine hostages were killed. Terrorists from Black September had stormed the Israeli quarters in the Olympic Village in Munich early the previous morning.

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• During the 1400s and 1500s, the medicinal qualities of the mallow’s sap were discovered, and it was brewed to make treatments for sore throats, toothaches, coughs, digestive issues, and as a poultice to combat inflammation. The doctors of the 1800s cooked the plant’s roots with egg whites and sugar, then whipped the concoction into a meringue that hardened into sore throat lozenges.

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Marshmallows patented a system Answer: that pressed the mixture through tubes, then cut A VERY LARGE NUMBER it into equal-sized pieces.

• Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 • Inhe1954, the Just company was asked to Born come candy up with a name introfor a duced a machine that would mass-produce very large number: the numeral one, followed marshmallows likeasked baby his chicks, the by a hundred shaped zeros. He two and young famous Peeps were born.

The process required nephews what name they would suggest. a special nozzle Milton that moved back and forth • Nine-year-old suggested a name toout cutofthe marshmallow into the chick shape. the funnies. A cartoon strip character Prior to Barney this invention, took 27 Milton hours to crenamed was veryit popular. chose Barney’s lastyellow name for the number. ate one of the chicks.

The process today six minutes. wasn’t the •requires Kasner about announced the new Itname foruntil the big 1980s that the Peeps bunny made its debut.

Up number in his next book, altering the spelling. until 1995, found pink, white • Sixty yearsPeeps later,could Larrybe Page andinSergey Brin and yellow.

Lavender was introduced thatOther year, developed a new internet search engine. followed by blue searched in 1998. More than a billion search engines each webpage and ranked according how many times a Peeps arethem produced each to year. term appeared on them,Lucky but Page and • Inspecific 1964, General Mills brought Charms Brin designed their search engine to search for tothe thespecific grocers’ shelves, the find first out cereal conterm and then howtomany tain marshmallows.

Theled oatback cereal links there were that to was that mixed page, with pink hearts, yellow moons, orange which resulted in a better search engine. stars, green clovers,they and needed remaineda that way that un•and They decided name tilreflected 1975 when blue diamond marshmallows how many websites the search were added.

1983, purple horseshoes engine wasInsearching.

They took the joined name the balloonsvery in 1989, trees in of group, Edwardred Kasner’s large green number, only they misspelled it slightly, so itDifferent ended upshapes being 1991, and rainbows in 1992. spelled theover same have comeexactly and gone the way years,the but cartoon today’s character Barney permanent list has spelled eight. his last name. What’s it called? (Answer at bottom of page) • It takes about 60 minutes to create one marshCOMPUTER FACTS contains 25 mallow. Each large marshmallow •calories.

In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory ought to be enough for anybody.”

• Who doesn’t love s’mores, that combination •ofMoore’s Law states that computer performance a roasted marshmallow and a chocolate bar doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since sandwiched between graham crackers?

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1927 Girl Scout handbook “Tramping and •Training HP, Google, and Apple all with Microsoft, the Girl Scouts” was were the first started in garages. publication to list a recipe for the treat.

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