Commander Keen game

When the Mario Brothers Game was released for the '80s Nintendo (NES),  it was thought the hardware on most PC home computers could never compete with the smooth side scrolling of the game system because the graphics processor was so advanced. 

However, The ID software team that later made Duke Nukem found a way around the hardware limitations. They used a technique called double buffering, they were aware that the VGA graphics controller keeps two copies of the screen so they programmed the game to draw the graphics changes of the hidden copy of the screen then switch the panes around when the rendering is complete at the end of each frame cycle. They also programmed the game to only render the parts of the screen that had changed, like a brick was that was half way off the screen. 

When commander keen was released, people were amazed that is was still smooth scrolling as well as the mario brothers despite running on much slower graphically challenged dos based PC computers. 

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Red Dead Redemption Game

Red dead Redemption is one of the most popular games of all time. Did you know it was nearly abandoned; When Rockstar games was developing red dead redemption, there was so many bugs in the code that the game seemed unfixable and the development team were considering whether they should abandon the project. In forums and press interviews, they claimed they had made the game too complicated and caused software bugs to emerge. 

The game is so advanced that the animals in the desert hunt other animals in real time without user input. Sometimes you can witness a deer being hunted by a bear or wolves hunting a rabbit. 

There is also many hidden things in the game and if you just want to play you can always go to a bar in the game and play blackjack or layers dice. 

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Biggest and Smallest Seeds

The largest seed in the world that we know about is Coco De Mer palm tree seed. They weigh 30 kg and are roughly 50cm across. They are native to The Seychelles islands on the African continent and are found no where else in the world except in human cultivation. 

The Smallest seed that we know of is from the Orchid flowers that are often sold in supermarkets and florists. Their seeds are so small that they resemble dust. They are so small that the need a fungus partner to get them growing because they won't germinate on their own. You need a microscope to see the individual seedlings. 

The Seychelles

The smallest country on the African continent is the saychelles islands. It  has a surface area of about 459 km². The population is 100,000; less than many cities and towns in Britain. 

There are many plants and Animals that are unique to the Seychelles atol, they're found nowhere else on earth. 

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Tree Net

Trees have been known to communicate with other trees through their roots. They relay information about the conditions in the soil like having too many pests or poor sunlight. 

I thought they just log on 😂. The floor of a forest or the woods is a communication network for trees and bushes. 

New Encyclopedia

There is a new encyclopedia created that was written by artificial intelligence. It is called Grokipedia. It was created by Elon Musk's ai company xAI. 

You can visit the Grok ai now at https://grokipedia.com/

Grok ai does it's own research and searches for the truth. It is a machine, it isn't biased, it doesn't have opinions about things or people so it only wants to display the truth. 

I have already created a shortcut to it on my Android desktop. 

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has had issues with biased authors recently, politicians and activists being labelled as far right and statements about companies that aren't true. Even historical events being changed to suit the opinion of the editors. 

When I tried Grokipedia, it was dark like a dos prompt screen so I changed it to light mode. 

Roman Urine

In the Roman Empire, Urine was very useful. It was used to prepare leather, clean clothes and Brush teeth. 

It was so useful that it was taxed when used for commercial purposes. 

That takes the piss. 

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