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Things We Didn't Know
This Time Last Year
edited from the January 1 , 200E3
1) In San Diego, CA, on October 26, Northern California fire crews
worked into the night clearing fire lines and monitoring a back burn that Tampa Tribune article by Jeff Houck
was set to stop the Poomacha fire from advancing westward, f e m a photo/ 1. Skin cancer is 20% more common on the
Andrea Booher 2) The Poomacha fire burned almost 50,000 acres. It took
over two weeks to contain. In 2007, there were 7,605 fires in Califor left side of the body.
nia alone, burning 371,176 2. Scientists have figured out that a unique
3CT6S. FEMA photo/Andrea Booher bacterium makes the sea smell like the sea.
3) In San Diego, CA, on
They’ve also found a way to capture and bottle
October 25, helicopters
this aroma.
dropped water and fire retar
dant on the Harris fire, near 3. People who are optimists do better in most
the Mexican border, to stop avenues of life.
the wildfire from advancing.
4. Dolphins living off the coast of Wales whis
The Harris fire burned over
tle, bark, and groan in a different dialect from
90,000 acres and took ten
days to contain. Over 700 dolphins off the western coast of Ireland.
structures were damaged or 5. Yawning may be a kind of low-tech air con
d e s tr o y e d . Andrea Booher/FEMA ditioning for the brain.
4) In Lake City, FL, on May 6. Onions contain an anti-oxidant that binds
15, firefighters look on as an
with harmful toxins in the brain and flushes
area of fire rages out of con
trol on Fairview Road. The them out of the body, helping to prevent
Bugaboo Fire (FL) and the memory loss.
Sweat Farm Road Fire (GA)
7. Small children stress out about starting
originated in the Okefeno-
kindergarten up to six months before school
kee National Wildlife Refuge
and burned for almost three starts, suggesting youngsters may take cues
months. The fire was the from their anxious parents.
largest and most damaging 8. The mangrove killifish, found in the Carib
the region had ever seen,
bean, can breathe air and live in trees for
destroying over 600,000
months at a time.
acres. The fires were con
tained after heavy rains from 9. A single-fin whale can engulf up to 2,900
tropical storm Barry, though cubic feet of ocean, which is almost equal to
even the storm did not extin the volume of a large school bus.
guish them. Smoke could be
10. Mercury has an Earth-like molten core that
smelled from Atlanta to Ft.
wobbles like a raw egg does when spun on a
Lauderdale. Mark Wolfe/FEMA
countertop.
11. Business people take twice as long to en
ter text messages on an iPhone as on conven
I
tional cell phones.
12. A giant underwater current sweeping past
Australia's island of Tasmania toward the
South Atlantic is a main contributor to regula
tion of carbon dioxide gasses in the atmo
sphere.
13. Women who enjoyed strong childhood
relationships with their fathers prefer to have a
1) In Enterprise, AL, on
male partner who physically resembles him.
March 3, houses were de
stroyed by a tornado. The area 14. Airbags generally help people of medium
was declared a federal disaster height (5'3" to 5'11"), but increase the risk of
area. Mark woife/FEMA 2) In Sumter
injury for those under 4'11" or above 6'3".
County, FL, on February 9, damage,
15. Baking pizza dough at higher tempera
blue tarps, and new roofing materi
als could be seen from this area of tures for longer periods enhances levels of
The Villages. Mark Wolfe/FEMA anti-oxidants that researchers believe reduce
3) In Lady Lake, FL, on February a person's risk of developing cancer and heart
3, a church was destroyed by a
disease.
tornado that hit central Florida. Mark
Wolfe/FEMA
Year-in-review
