Flame

• Flames are made of Plasma, gases that are heated to the point they have lost some of their electrons. 

• Flames are magnetic, most flames are repelled by magnetic fields. 

•On the international Space station there is no gravity so candle flames won't take a teardrop shape, instead they burn as a sphere shape with blue tinge. 

International Space Station

• The international space station is the largest man made object in space. 

• There is no up or down in the International Space Station. The so called floor and ceiling are covered in instruments and control panels to save space. 

• Every month the ISS orbit decays by 2 KM, it must be topped up by rocket boosts regularly. 

• The European module is called Columbus and is used mostly to conduct experiments such as exposure to space tests using air locks and thethers. 

Stentor Cells

There is a giant single celled life form on Earth called Stentor. It is so big that it can be seen without a microscope. They often grow to about the size of a grain of rice and have been known to eat multi cellular organisms. 

Ice

At earth's atmospheric pressure 

Hydrogen freezes solid at -259.16 °c.

Oxygen freezes solid at -218.79 °c.

Nitrogen freezes solid at -210 °c 

Carbon Dioxide freezes solid at  -78.5 °c  

Helium won't freeze at any temperature in Earth's atmospheric pressure except absolute zero which is impossible. 

If you made a bowl out of frozen carbon dioxide, Helium, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen ice would boil in it. 

Oxygen ice is magnetic as is liquid oxygen. 

Your Ancestors

You came from 

2 parents,

4 Grand parents 

8 Great Grand parents 

16 Great Great Grand Parents 

32 Great Great Great Grand parents 

64 Great Great Great Great Grand parents 

This means you have 126 ancestors in 6 generations of your family. They are all likely to be very unique and different people. 

Night and Day

Night is the shadow of the Earth so when the Sun sets on the Horizon  you are seeing the Earth's shadow move towards you. 

The Earth isn't obiting the Sun, it is orbiting the solar system's center mass, most of the solar system's mass in in the Sun so we appear to be orbiting the sun but in reality the Sun and the planets are orbiting a point that is close to the Sun's surface. If you were looking at the sun from another star, it would appear to wobble because it is orbiting a point that is sometimes below it's surface and other times it is above the surface depending on where Jupiter is. 

Google Chromecast

The new google Chromecast is not just a video streamer. It comes with a remote control and has its own fully functioning Google operating system called Google TV that allows you to put your own apps on it. 

If it was released in the 90s it would be considered a super computer. Yet it costs just over £50 and is powered by the 15 watts 12v usb cable that can be connected to a TV. 

It is a system on a chip (soc). This means they made a micro processor that does everything, it processes video, data and sound. They made an all encompassing microprocessor that does all the work of an entire desktop computer. 

At also has Bluetooth so you can connect an input device to it like a Bluetooth keyboard & Mouse. 

The Chromecast itself can fit inside the palm of your hand. 

Magic doubling account

What would happen in one day if you have a bank account that doubled in value every hour and you deposited 1 penny in it at 12 : 00 am? 

You have one penny and it doubles in value every hour. How much money would you have after one day? 

• At 01:00, you would have 2p.

• At 02:00, you would have 4p.

• At 03:00, you would have 8p.

• At 04:00, you would have 16p.

• At 05:00, you would have 32p.

• At 06:00, you would have 64p.

• At 07:00, you would have £1.28. 

It took the first seven hours of the day to make over £1. So you are waking up to seeing just over £1. 

• At 08:00, you would have £2.56  

• At 09:00, you would have  £5.12

• At 10:00, you would have £10.24 

It is still the morning and you have already made £10. 

• At 11:00, you would have £20.48 

• At 12:00, you would have £40.96  

Half the day has gone by and you have made £40.96 from 1p. 

• At 13:00, you would have £81.92 

• At 14:00, you would have £163.84

• At 15:00, you would have £327.68

At the time of me writing this article most Brits make less than £100 per day. By 3pm it is clear that you have made more than most Brits make in one day because you have £327.68 and you still have 9 hours of the day to go.

• At 16:00, you would have £655.36

• At 17:00, you would have £1,310.72

So you get home and start making your dinner and realize that you have over £1000  from 1p 

At 18:00, you would have  £2,621.44 

At 19:00, you would have £5,242.88

At 20:00, you would have £10,485.76 

At 21:00, you would have £20,971.52 

At 22:00, you would have £41,943.04 

At 23:00, you would have £83,886.08

Then finally at midnight you have made a whopping 

 £167,772.16 from 1p 

At the time of me writing this, most Brit's make less than £50 thousand per year. If you doubled 1p 24 times you would have more than three times as much. 

 

ISSUE 10, 5 pence a minute

If you were paid 5 pence per minute continuously 24 hours a day....

• After one hour you would receive £3.

• After one day you would receive £72.

• After one week you would receive £504.

• You would receive on £2,184 on average every month.

• After one year you would receive £26,208 

At the time of writing this, that income would easily support most Brit's living costs. 

ISSUE 9, Bamboo

• Bamboo is a type of Grass but it behaves like a wood, it has a rigid stem that is as hard as wood. 

• some species of bamboo are the fastest growing plants in the world and can grow nearly one meter every day.

• Pandas live off bamboo, it takes up most of their diet. 

ISSUE 8, Berries

• Strawberries are not berries, they are related to grapes. The same is true for raspberries and blackberries. 

• Berries are fruits that are produced by a single flower ovary. 

• Bananas, Cucumbers, Oranges, Blueberries and Peppers are Berries. 

• Chilly Peppers are also Berries, the burning sensation chillies cause isn't present in Birds, when birds eat chilli peppers they don't feel a burning sensation in their mouths. 

• Potatoes Produce berries but they taste bad to humans and are slightly poisonous. 

ISSUE 7

• Orcas, commonly known as Killer Whales are actually the largest species of Dolphin in the world. 

• Marsupials are not exclusive to Australia, there are Marsupials in North and South America and Parts of Asia. 

• The largest Marsupial to Ever live as far as we know is the Diprotodon, it was 3 meters long and 2 meters tall and is estimated to weigh 2.7 metric tonnes. It was the size of today's Rhinos. It was a herbivore. 

• The Largest known Lizard to ever have Existed is the Megalania. It was native to Australia and thought to be over 5 meters long and over half a metric ton in weight. The true size of the Animal is not known for sure because the fossils are too incomplete to get an accurate estimate. 

ISSUE 6

• In the Computer Game Sonic and Knuckles, Knuckles is an Echidna.

• Echidnas are Monotreme Mammals, they look like Hedgehogs but they lay eggs, one of the few Mammal species that does so. 

• Monotremes are a type of Mammal that reproduce by Laying eggs. Monotremes only exist in Australia and New Guinea. 

• Platypuses are also Monotremes and also Lay eggs  to reproduce and they are Mammals that look like ducks and beavers at the same time. Plus they have a poisonous sting behind their legs that can cause extreme pain. 

ISSUE 5

It is believed that the music band R.E.M wrote the song "shiny happy people" to mock their record label for demanding they make an upbeat song, the band hate the song. They usually write dark songs like "Loosing my religion" and "Everybody hurts". 

Despite hating their song, it became the band's biggest hit and was number one in both America and UK in the 90s. 

It is believed that Michael Jackson was involved in the music for the game "Sonic the hedgehog 3" but hated the hardware they were using so he walked away from the project. Some people claim they can hear tunes used in his music in the music for the game on some of the levels. They salvaged some of his incompleted work and used it anyway. 

ISSUE 4

• The moon has made the Earth less windy. The moon pulls on the Earth and that has slowed down the Earth's rotation speed. It is the rotation of the Earth that causes storm cells to spin. If the moon didn't exist then the storms on Earth would be more than twice as strong as they are now. 

• The more snakes there are, the less people die. It has been proven that if a place has many snakes then less people will die. The reason is believed to be because they hunt creatures that spread diseases such as rats and bats. The same is true for spiders, spiders hunt flying insects that spread diseases such as Salmonella. 

• Nintendo is more than 200 years old. They started out as a company that makes playing cards. 

ISSUE 3

• Dead alkaline batteries bounce higher then charged ones. When an alkaline battery looses it's charge, the gel inside them turns solid. 

• Bees never defecate in the hive, the fly out of the hive to use the toilet. 

• USA bought Alaska from Russia for  $7.2 million. 

• It is believed that it rains Diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn. 

• On the Berge Califa, you can see the sun set twice. Once from the ground floor and one minute later after taking a lift to the top floor because it is so tall. 

• Jelly fish take up 40% of all the biomass in the ocean

•The inventor of the pringles tub had his ashes put into a pringles tub after he died. (They stayed in crisp condition) 

• Lizards can't breathe while they are running because the muscles that move their legs push their lungs flat. 

ISSUE 2

• In the movie "The Matrix" the scenes set in the matrix are tinted green slightly, this is to create the effect of an artificial world awareness.  

• In the movie "The Matrix", the scenes that were set outside the Matrix were tinted blue slightly to create the effect of a dull real world. 

• The Earth doesn't orbit the sun, it orbits the solar system's center of mass. A spot that is very close to the sun's surface. 

Issue 1

• The metal Lithium Floats on water, it also burns up when it touches water. 

• The biggest country in Europe is Ukraine, Russia is bigger than Ukraine but only part of it is in Europe. 

• Turkey and Russia are both countries that are in Europe and Asia