Kirby Origins

According to Nintendo, the video game called Kirby was named after a lawyer that defended them against a lawsuit from universal. 

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Universal sued them because they thought Donkey Kong was too much like king Kong and thought they were entitled to royalties from the Japanese Game Company. They eventually lost the case. 

Instant Tuner

If you're worried your guitar strings are not playing the right note or your piano is off a bit, you don't need to buy a tuner, you can summon an instant tuner that doesn't need an app on your smart phone 

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All you need to do is go to Google and type 'tuner google' or click on this link... Google tuner. 

The tuner works with all sounds, you can even sing notes to see if your voice can reach the right notes.

Instant Spirit Level

If you need a spirit level tool but don't have one with you, you can use your phone as an instant Spirit level. 

You don't need to install an app, just click on this link Spirit Level

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If you don't want to click on the link, you could just type spirit level on the Google search bar.

The instant spirit level will use your phone's gravity sensors to move the virtual bubble.

Super Mario Facts

In the game super mario brothers and the sequels, mario doesn't hit his head on the item blocks, he actually hits it with his hand. If you look closely you'll see he actually puts his hand above his head and that is what is hitt the blocks when he jumps. 

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The Name Mario Comes from a man that was renting warehouses to Nintendo, he was called Mario. 

Penny a Minute

If you were given 1 pence (cent) every minute, after one day you would have £14.40 because there is 1440 minutes in a day. 

After a week you would have £100.80, not bad for a gift. 

If you were given 1 pence per minute for a whole year, you would have £5256, enough to buy a low mileage second hand car. It would be enough to buy a decent overseas family holiday and have change left over for a top of the range electric bike or £2,500 spending money on your holiday. 

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If you divide £5,256 by 12, you would have a monthly sum of £438. Not bad if it was a second income. 

If you received 2p per minute, you would get £876 per month. 

If you received 3p per minute, you would get £1314 per month. 

If you received 4p per minute, you would get £1752

That would be enough to live on for most people at the time of writing this. 

Getting 5p per minute would give you a monthly income of £2190. Enough to live of comfortably at the time this post was written. 

Too Fast

One of the reasons why NASA don't send probes to land on the surface of Mercury is because the planet is moving too fast. Mercury is traveling at 48 kilometres per second. It is the fastest moving planet in the solar system. The closer you are to the sun the faster you have to move to stop yourself cascading into the star. It is very hard to get probes to travel at close to 48 kilometres per second

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Earth is traveling slower than mercury but it is still moving fast, 30 kilometres per second. It is possible to meet the planet in it's path but the sun's gravity would interfere in the rendezvous. Mercury is 3 times closer to the sun than Earth although it has a highly elliptical orbit and can be as far as 70 million kilometres from the sun. 

Sources : 

Book: The Planets by Professor Brian Cox

Website: https://science.nasa.gov/mercury/

Website: Wikipedia

Astronomical Unit

The distance between the Earth and the sun is used as a measurement of large distances of space. The earth is roughly 150 million km from sun on average, that distance  is called an astronomical Unit, AU. They did it this way to reduce the size of the numbers that represent the distances so humans can begin to imagine the scale of the solar system and deep space. 

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Distances from the sun 

Earth is 1 AU astronomical Unit (150 million km) 

Mercury is about ⅓ of an AU. 

Venus is 0.72 AU. 

Mars is 1.5 AU, about 50% further than Earth. 

Jupiter is 5.2 AU, 5.2 times further from the sun than Earth.

Saturn is 9.4 AU, nearly 10 times further from the sun than Earth. 

Uranus is 19.22 AU . 

Neptune is 30.06 AU, nearly twice as far from the sun as Uranus, that is why you need a telescope to see it. 

Pluto is 39.53 AU 

Sources 

Nasa Website: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/

Book: The Planets By Professor Brian Cox, ISBN 9780007488841

True when you think about it

A street light in a computer game is using electricity because the the pixels that show the lamp require electricity and to keep the memory of the street lamp, a constant flow of current is needed. 

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Night time is a shadow ; it is literally  the shadow of the earth. 

If you had offspring with your auntie, you would be your own uncle. 

Source: My own common sense.