Game on A page

There is a website that lets you play old computer games directly through the page, it literally boots up an emulator and runs the game ROM on the web page. 

That game site is called  Freebie Games.

The link is https://freebie.games/

They keep the ROM with them so they don't break any copyright laws where they are located. You don't need to install anything to play the games, you just need a working web browser that supports their technology. 

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I found it also generates the controllers needed to run the game. I managed to find my favourite dos game on there and play it on my smartphone using the little controllers that it provided. 

Kirby Origins

According to Nintendo, the video game called Kirby was named after a lawyer that defended them against a lawsuit from universal. 

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Universal sued them because they thought Donkey Kong was too much like king Kong and thought they were entitled to royalties from the Japanese Game Company. They eventually lost the case. 

Instant Tuner

If you're worried your guitar strings are not playing the right note or your piano is off a bit, you don't need to buy a tuner, you can summon an instant tuner that doesn't need an app on your smart phone 

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All you need to do is go to Google and type 'tuner google' or click on this link... Google tuner. 

The tuner works with all sounds, you can even sing notes to see if your voice can reach the right notes.

Instant Spirit Level

If you need a spirit level tool but don't have one with you, you can use your phone as an instant Spirit level. 

You don't need to install an app, just click on this link Spirit Level

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If you don't want to click on the link, you could just type spirit level on the Google search bar.

The instant spirit level will use your phone's gravity sensors to move the virtual bubble.

Super Mario Facts

In the game super mario brothers and the sequels, mario doesn't hit his head on the item blocks, he actually hits it with his hand. If you look closely you'll see he actually puts his hand above his head and that is what is hitt the blocks when he jumps. 

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The Name Mario Comes from a man that was renting warehouses to Nintendo, he was called Mario. 

Penny a Minute

If you were given 1 pence (cent) every minute, after one day you would have £14.40 because there is 1440 minutes in a day. 

After a week you would have £100.80, not bad for a gift. 

If you were given 1 pence per minute for a whole year, you would have £5256, enough to buy a low mileage second hand car. It would be enough to buy a decent overseas family holiday and have change left over for a top of the range electric bike or £2,500 spending money on your holiday. 

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If you divide £5,256 by 12, you would have a monthly sum of £438. Not bad if it was a second income. 

If you received 2p per minute, you would get £876 per month. 

If you received 3p per minute, you would get £1314 per month. 

If you received 4p per minute, you would get £1752

That would be enough to live on for most people at the time of writing this. 

Getting 5p per minute would give you a monthly income of £2190. Enough to live of comfortably at the time this post was written. 

Too Fast

One of the reasons why NASA don't send probes to land on the surface of Mercury is because the planet is moving too fast. Mercury is traveling at 48 kilometres per second. It is the fastest moving planet in the solar system. The closer you are to the sun the faster you have to move to stop yourself cascading into the star. It is very hard to get probes to travel at close to 48 kilometres per second

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Earth is traveling slower than mercury but it is still moving fast, 30 kilometres per second. It is possible to meet the planet in it's path but the sun's gravity would interfere in the rendezvous. Mercury is 3 times closer to the sun than Earth although it has a highly elliptical orbit and can be as far as 70 million kilometres from the sun. 

Sources : 

Book: The Planets by Professor Brian Cox

Website: https://science.nasa.gov/mercury/

Website: Wikipedia