Food Hack

If you have an avocado or other fruit that isn't ripe, you can speed up the ripening by placing a freckled banana next to it. 

When a banana is covered in Brown dots or freckles, it is fully ripened and is giving off ethylene gas, this causes other fruits close by to ripen quickly. 

You could leave the freckled banana next to the fruit for a day then eat the fully ripened banana and then eat the other ripened fruit the following morning. 

Light Speed Paradox

If you placed a light emitting diode on the end of a bullet and fired it, the light emitted by the diode would not go faster than the speed of light, even though  it is being transmitted from the end of a speeding bullet. 

What would happen is the time experienced by the light photons would slow down so time and space  would not allow the light to travel faster the maximum speed limit for light particles. 

So all particles with no mass can't travel faster than 299 792 458 meters per second. That is the fixed speed of light. 

Ringo Starr Narrated Thomas The Tank Engine

Ringo Starr, the drummer for the Beatles music band was the Original Narrator for Thomas the Tank engine. The Voice in the background telling the story about what is happening in each scene. 

He liked trains a lot because he took on other train related roles. 

Edelweiss Song

“Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music is a song about the edelweiss flower. 🌼

The flower is used as a symbol of the Austrian countryside and, in the context of the musical, as a symbol of home, Austria, and affection for the country.

One interesting little fact: the song wasn't actually an old Austrian folk song. It was written specifically for The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

So the Edelweiss is actually a flower, not a person or a feeling. They grow in the mountains are very tough, a bit like daisies. 

Raisins Are Grapes

Raisins are grapes that are dried up, all the water is removed. If you drop a raisin in water and leave it there for a while, it will swell up and resemble a grape. In some cases it will almost look like a fresh grape depending on how the water was removed. 

Normally it won't quite resemble a fresh grape because the drying process changes the cell structure but when it is fully hydrated, it would still be a grape, just not fresh looking. It would look like a bruised grape with some wrinkles. 

Gregorian Calendar

The 9 11 terrorist attacks can be used to remember how many days there are in each month of the Gregorian Calendar, the calendar we use here in the west. 

Month 2 has 28 days or 29 on a leap year. 

Months 4, 6, 9 and 11 have 30 days the rest of the months have 31 days. 

2 Planes hit the trade towers 

4 Planes were hijacked 

6 Looks like an upsidedown 9

9 is the month of the attack 

11 is the day of the month when the attack happened 

Remember 4, 6, 9 11; April, June September and November (30 days) the rest have 31 except for February. 

Dragon Fruit Cactus

The Dragon Fruits you buy in the supermarket grow on a Cactus

It is a strange looking cactus called Hylocereus. It looks like a tree with lots of cactus branches sticking out of it. 

The fruits are very sweet.