Fizzy Fact

Most Fizzy drinks have carbon dioxide dissolved in them. The reason they chose that gas is because it has the most  positive attributes for the lowest cost. Carbon dioxide dissolves the most without making the water poisous. Ammonia dissolves in water more than carbon dioxide but it makes the water slightly toxic. 

There are other gasses that can be added to flavoured water to make it fizzy and not toxic, you can add oxygen or nitrogen but they have their own issues, oxygen fizzy water tastes flat and makes the water taste oxidized. 

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Nitrogen gas costs more than carbon dioxide and it is more difficult to dissolve in water so it makes the water less fizzy and the bubbles are smaller so the foam caused by pouring the liquid lasts a long time. Some beer companies have been known to use Nitrogen instead of Carbon dioxide because they don't want a tangy taste and they want the pouring  foam to last a long time. 

Most carbon dioxide gas in fizzy drinks is a by-product of other industrial process so it is very cheap. They almost treat it like a waste product, yet for a fizzy drink it is the best gas to use, you get more fizz, a tangy taste from the drink and you get a longer shelf life because carbon dioxide is acidic when dissolved in water and that kills microbes. 

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Pier Trains

There are three piers in Britain that are known to have working railed trains running on them. The most famous one is Southend on sea. The pier itself is extremely long 2.15 km (1.34 miles) and the train will take you most of the way across the pier. They claim to be the longest pleasure pier in the world. From my experience, the starting platform at the beginning of the pier has the look and feel of an old subsurface metropolitan subway station. 

The Ryde Pier on the Isle of wight has a more practical pier train. It is used to bring people to the catamaran ferry that goes back to the mainland and the bring people from the ferry back to the coast. 

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Hyther pier in Hampshire is the oldest working pier train line in the world. 

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Skin

It is commonly believed that humans shed about 0.5 grams of dead skin every day. There are 365 days in a year so that means we shed 182.5 grams every year. Nearly 2 kilograms. It is possible for someone to shed their own weight in dead skin over a period of 35 years depending on how heavy they are. 

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182.5 ÷ 12 is about 15.2 grams every month.  Detatched dead skin usually exists as grey dust.

Dust isn't nice but don't let it get get under your skin. 

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Strange Metal

Bismouth is one of the most strange metals in the world. It is the metal with the most heat resistance and behaves a lot like lead. They are both side by side on the periodic table. 

When Bismouth is exposed to a magnetic field, it makes a copy of the field with the same  polarity causing it to push against it like two two north poles. The formal term for this effect is diamagnetism; it causes magnets to be repelled away. Bismouth is the most diamagnetic chemical element that we know of. It is possible to make Bismouth levitate above a magnetic field. 

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Bimouth has countless other strange properties like it expands when it solidifies making it less dense. Solid Bismouth would float in liquid bismouth just like ice floats in water. 

Most alloys of Bismouth have a very low melting point. 

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Human body Components

According to the current markets, the two most valuable elements in your body by mass and price would be valued at about £10. The problem is it would cost more than £10 to extract them. Their combined weight is less than 1kg. There is 700g of Phosphorus and 140g of Potassium. 

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There is also gold in the human body but only trace amounts. 

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Coins to Space

A stack of 65.8 million pennies would reach space if there was a mysterious force holding them in place and stopping them from crushing themselves. The coins would have a value £658,000 and they would weigh 234 tonnes. 

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Apocalypse Prepping

According to my my research, the best foods to keep in storage if you're stocking up on emergency supplies is honey and dry grains. 

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Honey has no known expiry date; a jar of honey was found in an ancient Egyptian archeological site and it was still edible despite being over 3000 years old. 

Similarly, dried grains can last for years and are highly nutritious. You can store a variety of different grains together as long as they're kept dry.