Angels With Filthy Souls

In the Christmas movie 'Home Alone', Kevin is seen watching a gangster movie called 'Angels With Filthy Souls'. 

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According to the director, the movie doesn't exist, they shot that one clip themselves for the movie.

Contactless Payment

When you use a bank card to make a contactless payment several things are happening. A moving magnetic field causes induction to a thin layer of metal In the card, that gives the card a small electric charge. 

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Then a small microchip on the card sends a series of pulses to an antenna and that transmits a weak radio signal called near field. Then the machine reads the data though the air. 

Your bank card is basically a compact radio transmitter. 

Squid Game Doll song

In the Netflix series called Squid Game, the English translation of what the doll is singing is "Red light Green light 123", over and over again. 

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British Plug

The British polwer plug, also known as the type g plug is used in over 50 nations around the world from Saudi Arabia to various nations in Africa and even on Hong Kong island. It can handle a current as big as 15 amps but usually has a fuse that blows when the current at 13 amps. 

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The ground pin at the top of the plug has 4 uses. It works as a key and opens spring loaded shutters for the live terminals as the plug is pushed in. It also turns on the circuit breaker if a strong current flows through it and that prevents electrical fires caused by a short circuit by turning off the whole loop.  It also safely carries an overloaded current back to the main transformer of the building preventing electic shock from a faulty appliance. If that fails the fuse will blow instead. The pin at the top of the plug also creates friction that makes the plug less likely to slide out of the socket unintentionally. 

Chandrayaan 3 wakes up

This last week of September could become one of the most exciting of the year so far because they are waking up the chandrayaan 3 probe from sleep mode according to the official mission blog, Chandrayaan 3 blog

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The night time on the moon lasts for 2 weeks so the probe had to stop activity because it is solar powered. 

Coca Cola

Apple Tizer, Dr. Pepper( in Europe) , Fanta, Iron Brew, Kia Ora, Oasis, Relentless , Smart Water, Sprite and coke are all brands of the Coca Cola company. 

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There are all sorts of drinks in the shops that are actually Coca-Cola products. The Relentless energy drink, bottled water known as Smart water, fruit flavoured fizzy drinks like Fanta and Sprite. They're all part of coca cola. 

Sleeping on the Moon

Night time on the moon lasts for about 2 weeks so if they send a solar powered probe it must go onto sleep mode for 2 weeks at a time unless it can store extra power during the day time. 

The recent Charndrayaan 3 probe was forced to go into sleep mode shortly after it landed because of the long moon night. 

Most Painful Sting

According to Coyote Peterson, a man that deliberately gets stung on the arm, the most painful insect sting is from the Executioner wasp and not the bullet ant or Tarantula Hawk wasp

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The pain from an Executioner wasp is so painful that his upper arm and hand went into paralysis for a short time. 

Weight Loss

When you lose weight, most of the weight is lost through the lungs. 

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when you body breaks down fat, it turns it into carbon dioxide that is then exhaled through the lungs. 

Taxi Cheaper than Trains?

It is cheaper for four people to go from High Wycombe Train Station to Marylabone train station by Taxi than by train.

A single trip from high Wycombe costs £16.50 for one person.  By Uber it costs about £40 on average but the car has room for four passengers! If there were four passengers they would only pay £10 each. 

This info is based on my own observations and access to my Uber App. I believe this is true of many other stations. 

Most Premature Birth

According to the Guinness World Records, a boy called 'Curtis Means' was the most prematurely born baby to survive. 

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He was born in the second trimester of birth, about halfway through normal pregnancy cycle. He was roughly 4 & ½ months premature. 

With the aid of technology more and more infants are surviving being born during the second trimester of pregnancy. 

To the Coast

It's cheaper drive to the coast from most cities in Britain than to take the train. 

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My findings are based on my own experiences. For example two hours of dual carriageway driving in my car gets you about 100 miles and a uses ⅓ of a tank, that works out as £12 in each direction. Two hours of driving will give you access to quite a lot of the Sussex or summerset coastline from London and the Thames Valley. Most train tickets to the coast cost more than £20 in each direction. Most cars have 5 seats so you can take the whole family with you.

If you have a hybrid or electric car then the difference in price is even greater. 

Water on Mars

According to NASA, one of the most important things they found out about Mars was discovering rocks that form in liquid water. They believe that the planet once had water oceans and rivers. 

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Another important discovery was finding rocks with magnetic minerals that were aligned to the poles of the planet. Although the magnetic fields of Mars have faded away, in the past they existed. Mars once had a strong magnetic field protecting its atmosphere from solar wind particles. 

Mario Facts

The computer game character Mario's full name is Mario Mario and his Brother's full name is Luigi Mario. They were named after Mario Segal, he was the landlord that rented a large warehouse out to Nintendo. He should've been called Alan 🙄

He was originally called Jump man but they renamed him Mario when the landlord did Nintendo a favour, being nice gets you far. Nintendo originally wanted Popeye the sailor man to be their main character but they couldn't get the license so they used jump man from Donkey Kong instead and gave him the name Mario. He then gained a brother when the game became two players. In the original side scrolling games, Mario looks like he is headbutting the bonus boxes but if you look closely, you'll find he is actually pressing them with his hand. 

Venus Facts

According to some NASA Blog posts, the planet Venus is believed to once have water oceans on the surface. They came to the conclusion because planetary orbiters were detecting rocks that form in the presence of water. 

It is also believed the planet's rotatation was slowed down because it was hit by a dwarf planet with a glancing blow. This caused a chain reaction, the magnetic field failed because of the slowed down rotation and that caused solar wind particles to reach the atmosphere and strip away water and nitrogen. The atmosphere was then replaced with a dry thick blanket of CO2 by volcanoes. Soon after that, the planet had a run away greenhouse effect. 

Africa by accident

Many British people I have spoken to have been to the African continent without realising it. They have been on holiday in the Canary Islands, mostly Tenerife. I have been to La Palma, lovely open air airport with palm tree gardens. Although they are Spanish islands, they sit on the African continent on the Atlantic ocean. 

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When my parents took me to the island of La Palma, I had no idea it was part of the African continent, I thought they were Mediterranean islands, they're not, they're in the Atlantic ocean and are part of the African continent. 

USA compared to Britain

The land area of the Island of Great Britain is roughly 250,000 Km²,  243,610 km² to be exact. 

The Land area of the United States of America is 

9.834 million km². 

This means the USA is roughly 40 times the size of Britain.

Largest living Cell

There exists a single celled organism that can grow to about the size of a golf ball and sometimes bigger. It is a single celled algi called 'Valonia Ventricosa'. It is considered to be one of the largest single celled organisms in the world. 

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These gigantic single celled organisms can be found in every ocean in the world. They're believed to be able regenerate if they're damaged or broken into multiple pieces. Each fragment could grow into another complete 'Valonia Ventricosa'. 

The Thing Movie

The movie titled "The thing" is based on the Book called 'Who Goes there' by John Campbell. In the '80s version of the film, there are some differences from the book. In the book, the alien wasn't discovered by a separate Norwegian expedition. It was discovered by the same crew. 

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In the book the alien has a default form, a creature with a humanoid shape and three red eyes. The creature also has tentacles in it's hair. In the book the creature doesn't need to eat or breathe because it has cold fusion proteins, the cells can get energy directly from water molecules by splitting it and fusing hydrogen. In the movie this ability is never exposed. The book also mentions that the cells of the organism are identical from the victim cells except for the nucleus. Most of the science is cut out of the movie. 

Trip To Hell

According to the book titled '23 minutes in Hell', a guy called Bill Wiese was pulled out of his body and was taken to Sheol, the Current Hell. He was there for about 23 minutes because his wife saw the time when he came back to his body. 

He claimed it was like a prison deep underground filled with people that rejected God and angry Fallen Angels. He claimed he was put in a prison cell with two Demons that look like  humanoid reptiles. He also claimed in his book that it was unbearably hot and stank of sulphur.

Fruit facts

Strawberries, Raspberries and Blackberries are not technically berries. They are produced with multiple flowers. Bananas are technically berries because they come from a single flower ovary. Raspberries are actually known as drupets or aggregate drupes. 

Permisons, Sharon fruit, Tipos, Rojo Brilliants and Date Plums all come from the same species of fruit, they are all types of Kaki fruit that are native to China. Sharon fruits are Kaki apples that were bread to have firm skin and come from Sharon valley in Israel. 

Coffee Berries, mangos, Olives, peaches and Cherries are all drupes or stone fruit. Olive oil and coffee are produced with fruits.

Kinesin the motor protein

Every cell in your body contains microscopic protein machines called Kinesin. They are little vehicles that have legs that walk around delivering nutrients and chemicals to different parts of the cell. 

They move very fast but if you slow video footage of them down, they clearly resemble walking. They literally walk along micro tubial framework inside the cell.

Just like all protein machines in the cell, they are printed out from RNA strands that were copied from the reading side of the DNA molecule. 

Galaxy Collision

According to NASA and most of the astronomical society, in 5 billion years our galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. By that time, our sun will be transitioning into a white dwarf dead star running on the remainder of its heat. 

Many of the scientists believe that the stars themselves won't collide with eachother because they're so spaced out, excuse the pun. 

Eventually the super massive black holes at the centre of the two galaxies will merge together and the two galaxies will become one large galaxy. 

Mandela Effect

The Mandela effect is a non formal term used to describe large groups of people sharing a false memory. For example, in 2013 when Nelson Mandela passed away, thousands of people thought he was already dead, they thought he died in prison. 

I have a few Mandela effect examples of my own. I remember mr money bags, the logo for the monopoly game had a monocle on his eye, he never did. On the kit Kat logo, I remember there was a blocky shaped hyphen between the word Kit and Kat but there never was; many other people share this false memory and that is why it is considered a Mandela effect. 

Water and stuff

When you cool water down it shrinks until it gets to about 4° C, then it starts to expand, when it solidifies as ice at below 0°c it has expanded so much that it floats on liquid water. 

Water would boil at room temperature in a vacuum, it is the air pressure that decides the boiling point of water. 

You can break water molecules with two wires and a 9 volt battery. When a certain amount electricity passes through water, it causes the oxygen and hydrogen bonds to break, this would cause oxygen and hydrogen gas to bubble at the surface. 

The alkaline metals Lithium, Potassium and Sodium float on water, they also react with the water causing a release of hydrogen gas. 

The Butterfly effect

The butterfly effect is a concept of chaos that points out that a small effect can trigger a chain reaction that can lead to a much bigger effect. The main example of the concept is that it could be possible for a butterfly to flap it's wings, the air flow away from his wing tips could cause a chain reaction that goes around then planet and eventually turns into a hurricane. 

I can think of unlimited examples myself. I could ask a person what time it is? My face reminds them of their boss at work, this causes them to call their boss to ask for overtime, the voicemail on their manager's phone is music. The music reminds them of a hang gliding. They decide to try the hobby again on the weekend but accidentally hit some power lines, they're fine but the power supply for the town is cut off for one day. The loss of power causes a pilot to miss his flight. The pilot was due to make a grave mistake that day and crash a plane but the flight never occurred. In this scenario, by asking for the time I cut of the power to the whole town and also save the lives of 550 people. If I didn't ask a stranger for the time, the power wouldn't be cut off and a airplane is crashed because of pilot error. All those events hinge on a small thing. That is just one example. 

Grandfather Paradox

If you travelled back in time and caused yourself to never be born then you would not be able to go back in time and cause the event because you were never born. This paradox is known as the grandfather paradox. 

A common example of the grandfather paradox is if you got in a time machine and visited your grandfather before he had your father. If you shot him then your father wouldn't be born and neither would you, but then there is no one to shoot him because his assassin was never born. 

That is the grandfather paradox. 

One Thousand Ancestors

If you looked back 200 years at your family history, you would likely find 1000 of your ancestors existed. This is because each person in the family tree came from two parents so every generation you look back doubles in size. 

You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents. 

Just 100 years back and there are 30 ancestors. 

You have 32 great great great grandparents, 64 great great great great grandparents, 128 great great great great great grandparents, 256 great great great great great great grandparents and 512 great great great great great great great grandparents. 

That is 1022 ancestors, roughly one thousand of them existed at some point during the last 200 years. You would need two large passenger planes to contain them all. 

It is hard to know exactly how many ancestors you have because some of them may have been distant cousins and some of them have children at different stages of their life. But I estimate it to be roughly 1000 individuals over 200 years. 

American Flag

The American flag has 13 stripes, they represent the original 13 British Colonies on the east coast of America. 

There are 50 stars on the American flag, they represent the present number of member states of the union.