lol
books
'CEO' (confessions of an english opium eater), by Tom De Quincey
finished Emma, by Jane Austen
finished Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
also, finished George Carlin's 'Napalm and Silly-putty'
also, am perusing The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
space
-the universe (ours, anyway) is 13.77 billion years old
(13.798 +/- 0.037B years, to be precise)
-the sun is 4.6B years old
-the earth is 4.54B +/- 0.05B
-mars, minimum distance from earth, is 34.6M miles away
-the OU (observable universe) is 46B light years in radius
(93B light years in diameter)
-200B galaxies, 300 sextillion stars (3x10 to the 23rd)
(each galaxy with between 10M to 1T stars)
population
- the population of the USA is 317M
-the population of Earth is 7.1B
penal system
-the jail/prison population (of the US) is 2.3M
(behind bars/incarcerated, in federal or state prisons, or county jails)
-743/100,000 (highest rate in the world)
-7.2M are incarcerated, paroled, or on probation
-46% black (12% of which is black muslim), 36% white, 16% hispanic, 1% american indian
-12% of america's population is black
water
0.5% of earth's weight is water
70% of earth's surface is covered in water
97% salt, 2% glacier ice, 1% fresh
the human body is 60-70% water (55-65% of weight)
(up to 78% of infants)
globesity
u.s. 31% obese (1/3), 63% overweight (2/3)
earth, roughly 500M obese adults
(10%M, 14%F)
1.6B either overweight or obese, globally
overweight is bmi of 25-29.9
obese is bmi 30 or over
59% of non-hispanic black women are obese
33% of non-hispanic white women are obese
79.8% of american black women are overweight
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