Fresh Prince Ninja Turtles Connection

James Avery the actor that plays uncle Phill in the fresh prince of bell air is also the voice actor for shredder, one of the villains in The original Animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 

James Avery plays a judge that lets his nephew, Will stay with him because his mum was worried about violent outbursts directed at him so he raises him as one of his own. 

When the shredder talks in the turtles , remember it is uncle Phill speaking. 

World Cup Paradox

FIFA decided they wanted to add a 32 team extension to knockout stages of the 2026 world cup. At the same time they didn't want to start with 16 groups. They chose to have 12 groups of 4 teams. 

The problem is the half of the teams that pass through are 24. To fix the disparity they select the 8 best relegated teams and let them through. 

They added a 32 team extension to the knockout stages to make the tournament last an extra week and increase audience retention. 

It is not clear why they didn't want 16 groups and settled for just 12. I would speculate that the group stages would last too long and the least skilled portion of the league would be too much worse than the best teams causing embarrassment to the nations, they would get scores like 16 - 1 or something like that. 

Antarctica Dessert

The continent of Antarctica is a giant dessert, it receives less than 200 millimetres of snow or rain per year on average. The snow that does fall on Antarctica doesn't melt so it builds up and gets blown inland by the wind and eventually accumulates into glaciers. 

If you lived on Antarctica you would find it hardly ever snows but the small amount of snow in the coastal areas gets blown inland by the wind. If you lived near the south pole, you would probably never see it snow and there would be dry valleys with no ice on them.

Throne Invasion

In Buckingham palace there is a throne where no one is allowed to sit except the current king or Queen. Prince Andrew brought his two friends Kevin Stacey and Ghislaine Maxwell and got them to sit on it. 

All three of them were close friends of Jeffrey Epstein the pedofile financier that later died in prison. 

AI QR Barcode

If you ask chat GPT to make a qr barcode for a short text information, it will. 

You can ask it to make a qr barcode for a web page, the password for an internet connection and even a plain text message. 

Other ai systems will also draw a bar code for you if you word it correctly. Sometimes you have to specify that you want it sketched as an image because it will just give you link to a website that does it for you instead. 

This one was made by Gemini. 

You don't need AI to make a QR barcode for you, you can use a specialized app or website if you wish but it is cool that they can do that.  

Saeeey Gaaaaar

In Italy the brand name Sega is a swear word. It means to use a saw but when you say sega to a person it means to M*sterbate. When they shouted out their logo at the start of sonic the hedgehog, it is like shouting W*nker. 

I'm guessing they would turn the volume down when they first turned on the console. 

In some forums people are debating if that is the reason they didn't shout the logo in sonic 3. There is no proof they stopped shouting their logo because of the Italians and the company itself never revealed why. 

If you're not Italian then it would have sounded futuristic and cool. 

Smallest Bear

If you were wondering what the smallest species of. Bear in the world is, it's the Sun Bear. 

They grow to be about 25 to 30 kilogrammes, they could be picked up if they didn't bite you first. They are native to Indonesia and Thailand and are found in the tropical forests. 

They are very good at climbing trees and they have a very long tongue to stealing honey from bees hives. 

Michael Jackson Vitiligo

The singer Michael Jackson was asked by Oprah Winfrey in 1993 why he bleached his skin. He said he had Vitiligo, an auto immune disease. His immune system would attack his melanocyte cells in his skin and cause white blotches to appear. The melanocyte cells produce the dark pigment. 

The only way he could cover his condition is to have most of the pigment removed. 

His claim of Vitiligo was later confirmed by an autopsy and various doctor testimonies after he died. 

Up until that point, many people didn't believe him and thought he hated his own race. His Brothers later came forward and confirmed that he has a autoimmune skin disease that would otherwise cause him to look like he was disfigured. 

White people also get Vitiligo, it causes their beige skin to have white blotches like a leopard. In people with dark skin, the condition can leave them looking like an albino with bruises. 

Kiwi Fruits

Kiwi fruits are not native to new Zealand, they're actually native to china and we're originally called Chinese goose berries but new Zealand farmers enjoyed growing the fruits and it was very popular there. 

You can eat the skin on a kiwi, it is edible. They are actually classified as berries. 

The black seeds in the middle of the fruit are also edible. 

Kiwi fruits contain more vitamin C than oranges. They are high in vitamin C and fibre. 

Kiwis grow on vines just like tomatoes and grapes. The vines on kiwis and last a long time; they're very durable. 

Suicide more than Homicide

One thing that is consistent around the world is you're more likely to die from suicide and homicide. This is true regardless of what part of the world you live in. Usually you're statistically twice as likely to die from suicide than murder or manslaughter. 

After looking through some notible sources 50

Facts that should change the world by Jessica Williams and various world health organisation reports, suicide is one of the most common causes of death. 

In young people 15 to 29 years old , suicide is the leading cause of death. This is because young people don't usually die from heart disease or cancer. 

It is hard to clarify the exact rate because it varies by country, gender and age group but most sources agree that more the one percent of deaths world wide are from suicide. That's one in one hundred people. 

Five Hundred mini drones

If you bought 500 mini drones (the ones that cost less than £10), and worked out how to make them all fly in tandem and connected them with strings to a parson, the person would be able to fly. 

It could even be possible to fly a person with 350 mini drones if the person was small and weighed 75kg or less and they jumped off a platform. 

The Philippines

The Philippines is one of the largest island archepelegos in the world, it contains more than 7500 islands.

It also has several creatures that native to them and can't be found anywhere else in the world like the philipine eagle, huge and powerful but endangered and the philipine long tailed macaque. 

Unfortunately the Philippines is in the ring of fire so they are subjected to powerful earthquakes from time to time. 

Human Composition

If all the material in your body fragmented into the individual elements, most of it would dissipate into the air because it would be gas.

Most of your body elements are gases when they're not in chemical bonds. Oxygen, Hydrogen and Nitrogen would blast out in a plume of particles that are freed from their bonds. 

The largest solid substance left behind would be carbon, nearly 20 kg of carbon would be left behind and a bunch of reactive metals, calcium, potassium, sodium and a bit iron and zinc. There would also be nearly a killo of Phosphorus. 

Frogs And Toads

Toads are Frogs but with additional attributes. Toads and frogs are both a part of the Anura family. They are both frogs but toads have some attributes that sets them apart, they tend to have dryer skin with bumps on it to allow them stay away from water for longer. The bumps on their skin is not warts, it is a gland that excreates oils to protect their skin from drying out.

They also have shorter legs and tend to be bigger in size. When toads lay eggs, they're usually in long strings. Sometimes it is hard to classify toads or frogs because the have attributes from the other group. 

Grokipedia Upgrade

At the end of 2025, roughly at the end of November, Grokipedia was upgraded to version 0.2. It now listens to user input and decides if they it should upgrade the articles. It also produces a lot of its own images. Xai created Grokipedia to create a product that is non biased and focused on the truth. 

This is the website for Grokipedia : https://grokipedia.com/

The xAI machine that generated Grokipedia works around the clock researching thousands of books and published reports and various other trusted documents and even videos in search of a report that shows the truth. When it is satisfied it has found the truth, it generates articles for people to search and read. 

It will be interesting to see what they do next. 

Three Hearts

Octopuses have 3 hearts, 2 hearts for the gills and one bigger heart for the rest of the body. 

Everything about the octopus anatomy is strange from our perspective. They have a small brain for every one of their arms, they have human like eyes with lenses that can focus light and the probably see the world like us. 

They also have a bigger brain that connects the smaller brains together so they have 9 brains that work in tandem. 

They are very interesting creatures. 

Did You Know : MSF

Did you know the Clock radio Signal that sets the clocks in Britain often difts off across Europe. This is because it uses a long wave frequency and can sometimes get reflected off cloud clouds or charged parts of the atmosphere.

The transmitter is located in Cumbria in the North of England but it can easily jut out across Ireland and parts of north Europe. 

The signal carries the date and time and the day of the week. All the information needed to a decent radio controlled clock. 

Mega Man Watch

You can now buy a mega man gaming watch from the same company that makes the atari watch 'My Play Watch'. 

This is the official mega man gaming watch page : My Play watch| Mega Man gaming watch.

Mega man was a popular side scrolling game at the end of the '80s and early '90s. It features all sorts of enemies and boss fights and there are different types of mega man to chose from. 

The functionality of game play is reduced slightly because the of size of the watch and lack of controls but it is very much a mega man watch. 

Clamshell Pocket Retro Computer Games

The company Hyper mega tech, a part of Blaise entertainment has released 2 classic portable handheld games consoles. 

They both come with 25 games each, all of them have 8 bit graphics although some of them were made recently as a homebrew indy project. They also both have a clam shell design and fit in your pocket. 

I found this Scottish guy that tried out all the games and gave a verdict , he goes by the YouTube alias 'Crazy Burger and gave a very comprehensive review of all the games : Pocket C64 , ZX Spectrum. 

These new systems won't take the vercade cartridges but they have a large folding screen and have 25 games preloaded. 

Fluid Thoughts

Your Brain is surrounded by spinal fluid, a fluid that is mostly made of water. The Brain floats in this fluid and is surrounded by it so there is reduced pressure on the base of the brain.  The fluid surrounds the brain and the spine and helps to absorb shocks and to 

Your Brain is also 70% water. 

Your thoughts and emotions emerge from water because your brain is mostly water and it is surrounded by water. 

Europe's Biggest Amusement Park

The Largest Amusement Park in Europe is located in Russia and is Called Kudikina Gora and it about 500 hectares.

 Alton Towers in Britain is second place but is crammed with rides and attractions. Disneyland is not even on the top ten list; that because a large part of the park is a resort the actual amusement park area is only 50 hectares. 

You could say Kudykina Gora has a lot of potential because it is so much bigger than the other amusement parks. 

LegoLand windsor

Before Legoland windsor opened in 1996, the site was a large safari park called 'Windsor Safari Park'

 The site was filled with many wild animals and visitors could drive amongst the animals in their cars. The brow of the hill would have given visitors a panoramic view of all the different animals. 

There was even a dolphin show held at the park. Amazing to think. 

There are many theories to why the original Safi park closed down. Some people think the whole park was on the side of a hill and it irritated the visitors. Other people think the cost of keeping wild animals increased. 

The bottom line is the visitor numbers dropped and at some point at the beginning  of the '90s, the park stopped making a profit. 

City Via Assassination

Southend on sea, a seaside town in Essex England was promoted to a city because of an assassination; let me explain. 

The local politician for the area, David Amess campaigned for many years to change the status of Southend on sea from a town to a city. On 15 of October 2021 he was assassinated by a Islamist terrorist because he voted for air strikes against Isis. 

Out of pity for his death, the Leadership cabinet, MP Boris Johnson and the Queen of England agreed to change the status of Southend on Sea to a city even though the population was less than half a million. 

A year later the Queen's Son, prince Charles (now King Charles the 3rd) went to Southend to declare Southend on sea a city. The status of the city changing hinged on his death. If he didn't die, they wouldn't carry out his wishes, there were places with a bigger population like Reading that still remained with a town to this day. 

Early 3D Game

You won't think there was a 3d game available on the Atari 2600, but there was. In 1983 CBS electronics released a first person dungeon crawler game called Tunnel runner. 

The game pushed the 1970's hardware of the Atari to its limits. It featured a maze inhabited with monsters. The goal of the game is to get out of the maze and avoid  the monsters. 

In my opinion it is the most graphically advanced 3D game on the console. Very few people were aware the game existed because it didn't have an established marketing network like other games providers. They even tried to add some shading to give some depth to the game. 

When you were confronted by a monster, it felt like it was a part of the game terrain and was animated. 

Tyson Fury

Tyson Fury was named after mike Tyson by his father because we was born premature and only weighed 450 grams so they thought the name would bring him good luck and help him survive because Mike Tyson was a good fighter. 

Run For it

Britain is such a small island that it is possible to run across it in one day. 

If you were able to run at a top human speed you can get anywhere in Britain in 10 hours. No one can though, most humans can only sprint for 2 minutes. 

If you jogged at half the sprinting speed 20km/h or 12 to 14 miles per hour, you could run to any part of Britain in a day. Animals that run fast like horses can't maintain a human jogging speed for long, they would just collapse after a few hours so humans are the fastest long distance runners on earth. 

Hot air and Helium

Hot air has a lower density than regular air and that is why hot air balloons float. Hot air would need a temperature of 1800°c to have the same density as Helium at room temperature.  It would likely melt the envelope containing it at that temperature. 

So hot air is lighter than the surrounding air but Helium at room temperature is much lighter than hot air so it can lift more weight. 

That is why a large hot air balloon lifts a tiny basket yet a Helium blimps have an enclosed cockpit and engine attached. 

Physical Pong

You can buy a real physical Atari pong table. It's sold as a coffee table but it has a real 8bit brick ball that goes back and fourth. 

At the time of writing this post the price was over £2,000 (£2,295.82 to be exact). That is quite expensive for a table. I guess it was built to last and it looks amazing. 

The table uses magnets to drag a cube shaped ball back a fourth across the table to be deflectd by the paddles are a also real objects. It creates quite a nice effect. 

If I was loaded, I would buy one myself. 😍

Games Watches

A family of retro gaming watches is currently being released by www.myplaywatch.com/. They're the same company that made the Atari watch with mini paddle controllers that I mentioned in the previous post. 

They lack connectivity; no WiFi or Bluetooth but they do have fitness tracking and they tell the time and have a selection of themed clock dials. At the time of this post there were three watches being released. I particularly like the space invaders one and Tetris. 

It is nice to have old computer games in a watch. 

Atari Watch

Atari is still around and now they're making smart  watches. You can buy an Atari watch with 4 popular Atari games on it. 

It also has a selection of retro gaming themed digital dials to chose from and all the other trimmings that come with a smart watch like fitness monitors and pulse metrics. 

I want one myself. I thought the four games on there like pong, super breakout, centipede and missile command are perfect for watches. I love super breakout. 

In the image above the wristband has a walnut finish just like the atari 2600. Very nice 👍 

New Hand Held Console

Evercade are releasing a new games console called the evercade nexus. What makes it special is it has eversync, a feature that lets you connect to another console and share the game on the cartridge through the air and play two players; only  one person needs to have the game cartridge, the console will send the game code to other console and let the other one play the same game as a second player. 

It also has lots of improved hardware features, wireless audio and improved sound output, better controls and a more crisp screen. It also has improved controller components. 

The evercade cartridges are the same ones that work on all the other Evercade consoles. 

WhatsApp Spontaneously Draws

Meta Ai can draw with commands prompts from inside from inside WhatsApp.

Everyone that has WhatsApp can now ask the meta Ai to draw an image and it will. In this example I asked it to draw a picture of cat playing scratch cards. 

I also like the default size of the image, 810 by 1140 pixels, it is a good size to share with other places and it's not too small in quality. 

Meta Ai was able to draw from the beginning of its creation but wouldn't take spontaneous drawing commands from inside WhatsApp until recently. 

Acid Injury

On December 2014 a man called David Phillips drove from Hastings to Truro in Cornwall (almost the width of England) to knock on the door of Adreas Christopheros and throw concentrated acid on his face because he thought he was the man that sexually assaulted someone close to him. It turns out he had got the wrong guy and his injuries were very serious. 

This is one reason why we shouldn't take the law into our own hands. 

The burning of the acid was so strong it instantly destroyed his shirt and left him with chronic pain for many years. He was also disfigured and blinded in one eye. 

The gasses from the acid even set off the fire alarms in the emergency room at the hospital. Plus there was a strong possibility he would pass away from infection. 

Sources 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-34478357

https://youtu.be/8RABNt4drq8?si=05_F4iaL7rEiA2fqh

Giant Bug

During the Devonian age there lived a giant arthropod called Jaekelopterus. They estimated it to be roughly the weight of two men, about 150 to 180 kg. It grew to be over 2 meters long. 

It lived in the water and belonged to the group euripterid, they were a group of arthropods that resembled scorpions but were more closely related to horse shoe crabs. 

It was a large creature that ate anything it could grab with it's claws but was the size of a panda, or a go cart. 

At the time more than 300 million years ago, there was a lot more oxygen in the air so creatures could grow a lot bigger and still move quite fast. 

Coal Makers

If you hold coal in your hands, you're looking at the remains of carboniferous period trees and plants. In the carboniferous period, the eco system didn't know how to break down tough plant fibers like wood. 

The trees that were around in the carboniferous period were nothing like the trees you see today, they were more like ferns. They wold look like ferns with tree sizes stumps. 

They were scaly prickly bizarre looking plants like Lepidodendron (scaly tree). They didn't embed their sperm in pollen like modern trees,  instead their sperm would swim along standing water on the ground just like animal sperm does today.  The trees were often male and female so one tree would make the seeds and the other would make the sperm. 

The trouble with these types of trees is they need damp environments to reproduce. 

After the carboniferous period in the Permian period, fungus and bacteria emerged that were able to break down tough plant fibers like wood so coal was no longer being created on a large scale. 

Taxi Vs Train Chilterns Railway

I gathered some prices for train tickets from high Wycombe to Marylebone (50km)  and compared it to Taxi tarrifs. 

Once again I found it was cheaper by train. It gets close when groups are considered. 

The results were a bit closer than the ones to Southend from Barking, the distance is the same (50 km). Barking to Southend report

In this model the ticket of the train drops dramatically when there are 3 or more adults. (This is without rail cards), just a group ticket. It drops down to £9.10. In this model only one way is considered. 

The cost per person also drops on Uber taxi as the passengers increase up to 6 passengers at  £15.33 per person. (You need UberX for more than 4 passengers) That is tarrif b on the chart. 

Six passenders by train pay £9.10 each. 

A group of 6 passengers  on a  Uber taxi pay roughly £6.10 more than if they went by train. If they had rail cards and a return tickets the gap would even get bigger. 

A group travelling 50 km on the Chiltern line pay roughly £3 more for the same distance on the c2c line. I'm not sure why; perhaps more of the C2c line is subsidised while it is in London. I also noticed lines that use diesel trains are slightly more expensive than electric ones. Perhaps the tracks needs to be replaced less often because the trains are lighter and the trains cost less to maintain because they use electric motors. 

It could also be that line itself has more passengers so it can charge less money and still break even with their costs. I can only speculate at this stage. 

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Half and Half

The worlds Tallest Mountain, mount Everest occupies two countries. The north side of mount Everest is in China in the region of Tibet. The South side of mount Everest is in Nepal in the Koshi Province. koshi means river in Nepal. 

The South side of Mount Everest in Nepal has the most frozen bodies: just in case you were wondering. 

If you ascend the western or eastern flank of the mountain, it is possible to climb a mountain in two countries at the same time. 

When you stand on the top of the mountain, you would be standing in china and Nepal if you feet were aligned with the border line. 

Build Virtual Circuits

Have you ever wondered if there is a website that lets you make your own circuits and virtually simulate a current flowing through them. There is one. 

https://www.withdiode.com/

On the site you get existing projects and you can modify them or you can make your own from scratch using a virtual breadboard and standard electronic parts. 

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Nyctinasty and Planter Fasciitis

Daisies and many other common flowers often close their petals at night. This is action is known as Nyctinasty; tissues at the base of the flower petal absorb water and swell up, the swelling puts pressure on the base of the petal and pushes it shut. 

It is thought they do this to keep condensation off the flower parts and prevent frost damage. It also helps keep nuisance insects off the flower at night. It must be amazing to be a small mite living on a daisy flower and see the flower close and open around you. 

Have you ever felt a feeling of pain in the heel of your foot as you take your first steps that fades away. Is the pain usually only in one foot? The chances are you have Planter Fasciitis. The Planter Fascia tissue that connects your heel to your toes can become swollen and push back into the nerve fibres inside your heel tendons. 

It's not a serious condition but it can cause a lot of pain and discomfort. The best way to treat the condition is to do foot stretches and to lose weight. Finding more comfortable shoes can also cause a rapid improvement. 

The cause of the condition usually  stems from the calf muscles in the leg pulling your Achilles tendon for prolonged periods of time causing tightness in the arch of the foot. 

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