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August 14 - 20, 2015 Issue 00235

by Janet SpencerIT’S A FACT

• Water will stay 9 days in the atmosphere; 2 weeks in rivers; 10 years in the largest lakes; 3,000 years in the ocean; up to 10,000 years in deep groundwater; and 10,000 years in the polar icecap.

• Water on Earth acts like water in a pan: turn the stove burner on under a pan that’s dry, and the pan will scorch and melt. Turn the burner on under a pan of water, and the water absorbs the heat and keeps the pan in good condition. Without water, our planet would be a scorching desert, unable to regulate the heat of the sun.

• There is a total of 369 quintillion gallons of water on Earth. If all the water were split evenly among the residents of the Earth, we would each have about 85 billion gallons.

• The amount of water on Earth has not changed since the beginning of time. It covers 3/4 of our planet. It’s the only material that passes through the three stages of liquid, solid, and gas within a range of temperatures that can sustain human life. It is also the only substance that becomes less dense when it freezes. Otherwise, there would be no life on Earth, because the oceans would freeze from the bottom up.

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WATER (cont’d)

• Water dissolves more chemicals than any other substance, including sulfuric acid. This is a leading factor in pollution, because water dissolves and carries contaminants.

• The average faucet flows at a rate of 2 gallons (7.5 l) per minute. At 1 drip per second, a faucet can leak 3,000 gallons (11,000 l) per year.

• There are approximately one million miles (1.6 million km) of water pipeline and aqueducts in the U.S. and Canada, enough to circle Earth 40 times.

• If you poured all of the water of all of the Earth’s oceans into a huge baggie, it would be one-third the size of the moon.

• If all the water in the oceans was spread evenly over the surface of the Earth, it would be 6,000 feet (1,828 m) deep everywhere.

• If all the groundwater in the world were pumped to the surface, it would cover the Earth to a depth of 100 feet (30 m).

• If all the water in the atmosphere fell at once as rain, the Earth would be submerged to a depth of only one inch (2.5 cm).

• There is 30 times more water underground than in all the world’s rivers and lakes.

BODY BITS• 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water,

and about 65% of the human body is water.

• Blood is exactly the same salinity as the ocean.

• Blood is 92% water, and bones are 31% water. Tooth enamel, the hardest substance in the human body, is only 2% water.

• The human brain weighs about 3 lbs. (1.4 kg), but if all the water were squeezed out of it, it would weigh only 10 oz (283 grams).

• Baby’s bodies contain a higher percent of water than grown-ups.

DOWN THE DRAIN• Americans as a whole use more water per capita

than any other country.

• Every day, residents of New York City use over 1.5 billion gallons. Although New York and London are about the same size, New York uses about three times as much water.

• California uses more water than any other state, but Alaska uses the most per capita.

• Americans use an average of 200 gallons (757 liters) of water in the home daily. That includes 5 gallons for every flush; 3 gallons for brushing teeth if the water is running; 40 gallons for a bath; 10 gallons to wash dishes; 8 gallons

to clean house; 30 gallons to wash clothes; 30 gallons for lawns and pools; and a mere 2 gallons for drinking and cooking.

• If you include industrial and agricultural uses as well as home use, the average American uses 1,900 gallons (7,192 l) of water per day.

• 40% of water used in the home is flushed down the toilet. The average toilet is flushed eight times a day.

• It takes 13,000 gallons (49,000 l) of water to carry away 165 gallons (624 l) of body waste per person each year.

• People living in cities that charge a flat rate for water have been found to use twice as much water as people in cities that meter water use. In Tucson, Arizona, water use per person dropped from 200 to 140 gallons a day when the price was raised significantly.

• It takes 40 gallons (151 l) to produce one egg; 80 gallons (300 l) for an ear of corn; 150 gallons (567 l) for a loaf of bread; 230 gallons (870 l) for a gallon of whisky; 2,500 gallons (9,463 l) for a pound of beef; and 100,000 gallons for a new car.

• More than 700 chemicals have been found in drinking water, but most municipalities typically test their water for fewer than ten.

FAST FACTS• Hoover Dam holds as much water as would flow

through the Colorado River in two years.

• Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone gushes 33 million gallons of water each day— enough water to provide for a city of 300,000 people.

• Niagara Falls has eaten its way seven miles (11 km) upstream since their formation 10,000 years ago. At this rate, they will disappear into Lake Erie in about 22,000 years.

• The waterfall with the greatest flow used to be Guaira Falls in Brazil. At 1,750,000 cubic feet per second, it would fill the Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C. in 3/5 of a second. It was submerged by a dam in 1982.

• 45-foot Khone Falls on the Mekong River on the border between Laos and Cambodia, is now the

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He continued to experiment with it, inventing many uses. However, the DuPont Teflon team was disbanded in 1957. Bill begged his bosses to let him continue to work with Teflon, but was turned down.

• He took Teflon home with him, experimented with it in his basement after work, and established his own company. His son Bob joined him, and in 1969 they discovered that Teflon would stretch if it was heated and then pulled slowly. They wanted to stretch it into a fabric, but time after time – while heating it and pulling it slowly – they failed.

• Finally in frustration, Bob heated it and then yanked it. That was the secret. Teflon, when heated and stretched quickly, expands to 1000% of its original size and forms fabric.

• Normally raincoats are made out of two layers: the outer layer is polyester or nylon, and the inner layer is polyurethane. Bill and Bob found that when sheets of this new Teflon fabric were inserted between the two layers, the raincoat was porous enough to breathe, but tight enough to be waterproof.

• The fabric contains over 9 billion microscopic pores per square inch. Whereas the pores are

• Arctic waters freeze at 30°f. (-1.1°C) instead of 32°f. (O°C) because of their high salt content. A person who falls into water this cold will become unconscious after only two minutes. This is one of the reasons why so many people drowned when the Titanic sank.

Noteworthy InventionsROY PLUNKETT

• On April 6, 1938, chemist Dr. Roy Plunkett was experimenting with coolant gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners at the DuPont laboratories in New Jersey. From the freezer he removed a tank of experimental gas he’d been working with, called tetrafluoroethylene. He expected to find a container of very cold gas, but when he turned the valve to let some gas out, nothing happened.

• He weighed the tank, which showed it should be full of gas. He checked the valve, but it worked fine. Perplexed, he cut the tank in half to find out what happened to the gas. He was surprised to see the gas had congealed into a solid, waxy substance.

• Plunkett ran some tests. The new material was impervious to chemicals and heat; it did not absorb things and nothing absorbed it; it was colorless and odorless; and it had an extremely high melting point.

• Plunkett had accidentally discovered what is popularly known as the slipperiest substance on Earth, equivalent to two wet ice cubes rubbing against each other in a warm room. The molecules of the substance are some of the largest molecules known.

• Three years after Plunkett’s accidental discovery, the process of manufacturing the substance was patented. Four years after that, it began to be sold on the market, mostly for military applications at first.

• Fifty years later Plunkett was inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame. Today the product has hundreds of uses. It’s used on windshield wiper blades, it’s in fingernail polish, it forms a scratch-resistant coating on eyeglasses, it covers cookware, it protects fabrics, and it covers lightbulbs to make them shatterproof. The list is nearly endless. What is it commonly known as? (answer below)

Answer: Teflon.

Noteworthy InventionsBILL & BOB

• Bill was one of the researchers working in the DuPont lab when Teflon was invented.

biggest waterfall by volukm. It runs with twice the flow of the Niagara.

• The Amazon River carries more water than any other river— more than the Mississippi, the Nile and the Yangtze rivers together.

ICE FACTS• Ice cubes will freeze clearer if they start out as

warm water, which prevents tiny air bubbles from freezing inside.

• The Antarctic ice cap contains about 66% of the world’s fresh water. At its thickest point the ice cap is over 2.6 miles (4.3 km) thick.

• Each year, some 430 cubic miles of ice become icebergs, enough to fill the annual water needs of 5 billion people for a year.

• If the Antarctic ice cap were melted at a uniform rate, it would fill the Mississippi River for more than 50,000 years, or all the rivers of the world for 750 years.

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howling named it ‘begle’ which is French for ‘open-throated’ or ‘bugling.’ That breed became the beagle.

• ‘Schnauzer’ comes from the German word meaning ‘snorer.’

• An Airedale is a breed that originated in the dale of the Aire, a river in England.

• Cocker spaniels were bred to flush woodcocks in Spain.

• A German dogcatcher named Louis Doberman set out to develop a watchdog by crossing terriers and pinschers.

• Terriers were bred to dig in the earth to snatch small animals from burrows. The Latin word for earth is ‘terra.’

• ‘Dachs’ means badger in German, and ‘hund’ means dog: dachshund.

• Poodle comes from the German word ‘pudel’ meaning splashing in water.

IT’S A DOG’S LIFE• A dog’s nose prints are as distinctive as our

fingerprints and can be used for identification.

• When dogs wag their tails, it squeezes their anal scent glands and fans their signature smell all around.

• Puppies don’t learn to wag their tails until they’re between 30 and 49 days old.

• Free-roaming dogs spend up to three hours every day re-marking their scent posts.

• All dog breeds are genetically compatible: Great

about 20,000 times smaller than a drop of water, they are also 700 times bigger than a molecule of moisture vapor. Therefore, water droplets cannot get through the fabric, but gases and water vapor can easily escape. It was superior to any outerwear on the market.

• Bill and Bob were granted a patent in 1976, the product line hit the market in 1989, and Bob was inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2006. The name of the fabric is based on Bill and Bob’s last name. What’s it called? (Answer below)

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• Dogs roll in dead things to disguise their smell. A deer will sniff the wind and think, “I smell a dead skunk” instead of thinking, “I smell a canine on the prowl.”

• Wolves bark a little and howl a lot. Dogs bark a lot and howl a little. Wolves and dogs both howl for the same reason: to get the entire pack together in communication and galvanize them for action. A howl means, “Where are you? Come join me! Let’s go do something!” Sometimes when people start singing, their dog mistakenly thinks they are howling in order to draw the pack together, and will then start howling along.

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* Soaking window decals with baby wipes will soften the adhesive, allowing you to remove a decal from glass more easily.

* “Potty training can be stressful for both child and parent. We tried many things, but in the end, you have to wait for the child to want to train. One thing that helped keep our daughter moti-vated was a sticker chart. Be bought all kinds of stickers, and whenever she used the potty, she would get to choose a sticker to put on the chart. We would remark on how many stickers she had and the variety, which made her feel successful!” -- D.R. in Iowa

* “Last week, we found my son’s favorite sippy cup half-filled with sour milk under the couch. I washed it very well with hot, soapy water, but it still smelled bad. I stuffed the cup with news-paper pieces and screwed the top back on. The newspaper absorbed the smell. It took about a week, but it’s back in use.” -- T.L. in Texas

* “My pup loves to ride in the car, and my car seats love his hair, too. Seems like it’s impossible to get the hair out! A vacuum didn’t work, so my neighbor suggested I use dish gloves. Just put a latex rubber glove on your hand and wipe over seats. A very lightly damped sponge can work as well.” -- P.I. in Washington

* Lotion scent too strong? Purchase a pump bot-tle of unscented lotion, and remove about a third to a small bottle or even a plastic zipper-top bag. Add your scented lotion, and mix well by shak-ing the bottle or stirring with a long stick. The scent will be diluted, and you can always add more scented lotion or top off with the excess unscented lotion.

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• When wolves are teaching their pups to eat solid food, they will leave animal parts lying around the den: horns, bones, hooves. The pups chew and gnaw on these objects as their teeth are coming in. When humans leave their slippers or newspapers laying around, the pup assumes it’s for the same purpose, and will chew the object to bits— and then be completely bewildered when it’s punished for doing what comes naturally.

• It’s been estimated that it costs about $6,000 to raise a medium-size dog to the age of 11.

• There are about 400 pet cemeteries in the U.S.

• In 1894, New York State enacted the first dog-licensing law in the nation.

• In 80% of dog bites, victims are bitten by a family dog or the dog of a neighbor. Some 60% happen between July and September. Boys under 15 are the most frequent victims.

• About 20 mail carriers are bitten by dogs during an average day in America.

• The American Kennel Club recognizes 130 breeds and registers more than 1.2 million purebred puppies per year.

• When dogs and humans sleep together, their sleep and dreaming cycles tend to coincide.


The Interior Provincial Exhibition has partnered with 542 Entertain-ment www.542entertaiment.com to create a new and exciting lineup on the busy Ram Truck Stage at the 116th fair in Armstrong. “We are very excited to see the combination of traditional and new talented acts to perform at this year’s event,” said Bryan Burns, General Manager IPE. “Billie-Jo and her team are a dream to work with and we are looking for-ward to the great music on our stage this year.”

Jack Jackson, our incredible MC and his wife Debbie, are back to provide the stage production and to ensure you experience an amazing time at the Ram Truck Stage. The famous food court at the RAM Truck Stage is where you can grab a great snack or meal and be entertained with amazing musical acts including the Jack Jackson Band, Chris Buck Band, Karen Lee Batten, Cash Craw-ford, Greg Drummond, Little India, BESTiE, Fall Brigade, Appaloosa (who also plays the Barn Dance), the BC Country Music Association Artist Development semi-finalists and our very own 2014 Youth Talent winner Kassandra Harder. The music starts every day at 11am.

Also consider attending Cowboy Church with worship starting at

9:30am on Sunday September 6th at the Ram Truck Stage. This rustic and casual church service is followed by more great music.

Go to www.armstrongipe.com to check out the schedule and more information on the artists and their bios.

In addition, local Okanagan artist, Aaron Gordon, manages our Indie Community Stage with some amazing local artists includ-ing Aaron Gordon JS Garcia Band, Dave Hesketh, The Paper Airplane Crisis, Mickael Maddison, Mi-chael Painchaud, Collin Croft, The Elk Tribe, Becca Mabbett, Olivia Paige, Trista Bassett (The Dreaded Naught), Jordan Dean to name a few. Come and check out it’s new

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If Kids entertainment is your thing we have a full Kids World Stage with lots of acts including PT the Clown, The Cutest Show on Earth, Rainbow the Clown, The Flea Circus, Murray Hatfield – Illusionist, Circus West, Yukon Dan, Polynesian Dancers, Valley First Kids Klub, Pet-ting Zoo, Lego experience, Zucchini Derby, Watermelon Eating, Corn Eating and Wax Hands.

You will want to check out of the best Rodeos in North American, the Wrangler Tour Rodeo is on with 5 days of thrilling action with the best the sport has to offer where the best of the best attempt to make it to the CFR in Edmonton. Amazing deals

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Westcoast Lumberjack Show, IPE Parade, Farrier Demonstrations, Stock Dogs, Rabbit Agility, Mini Chuckwagon Racing, Dog Agil-ity and the Iron Chef Competition are all back along with our various agriculture shows including Heavy Horse, Dairy and Beef competitions. Don’t forget about the Sheep, Goats, Rabbit, Poultry, Bees and all our Home Arts in the Nor-Val Arena to check out.

For additional information and the schedule of events go to the new IPE website at www.armstrongipe.com. Like us on Facebook and check out our new APP with all the updat-ed information.

The Interior Provincial Exhibi-tion will be going into its 116th year which will be held from Wednesday September 2nd to Sunday Septem-ber 6th, 2015. We also have over 38 non-profit, charity organizations involved in some capacity at this an-nual event. Come and support their efforts. The IPE itself has 450 volun-teers donating over 11,000 hours to ensure the showcase of the interior continues to entertain and educate the generations of families who at-tend. The IPE is a non-profit charity association. See you at the fair!

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* It was noted 18th-century German scientist, philosopher and satirist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg who made the following sage observation: “It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.”

* Famed comedic actor Charlie Chaplin was born in England, but at the age of 19 he came to the United States as a performer with the prestigious Fred Karno company. Interestingly, Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame, emigrated to the U.S. at the same time, as part of the same company -- as Chaplin’s understudy.

* Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, also is an autonomous region of Italy. If you ever decide to vacation there, keep an eye out for “casu marzu,” a cheese that’s produced locally. Whether you’re keeping an eye out in order to sample it or avoid it depends on whether or not you have an appetite for adventurous eating. The makers of “casu marzu” deliberately introduce into the process the larvae of a particular cheese fly. Though the cheese is sometimes cleaned out before it’s served, it’s often presented in its original state, wriggling maggots and all.

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