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. 

Midnight At the Oasis Song Meaning

Midnight at the Oasis sang by Maria Muldaur was written by David Michtern. It is a fantasy about being seduced in a far away exotic location. It is a fantasy about being alone with another person and falling in love with them with no one else around. 

A Secret Phone

If you see a BT  global billboard, there is  often a hidden phone on the side of the display that lets you make a free phone call. 

Many one then have a dial pad with a speaker and microphone and a button to speed dial emergency services. 

They also have usb charging  ports so you can charge up your phone. 

Twin Magic

In Terminator 2, Linda Hamilton's real identical sister played as the Robot Clone of her character Sarah Connor. 

Her sister played the T1000, a robot that can mimic anything or anyone it sees and completely shape shift. 

Many people thought it was a special effect but it was actually her real twin sister. 

Hidden Blindness

We all have blindness, our brain coveres it up.

There are two things you brain covers up. When the eye moves and a small spot where the optic nerve exits the retina. 

Saccadic suppression – while your eyes jump, the brain briefly blanks out the visual stream so you don’t see a blurred smear.

Blind-spot filling – at the point where the optic nerve leaves the retina there are no photoreceptors; the brain simply invents the missing patch from surrounding information.

Your Cat Would Eat Your Corpse

 

If you pass away in your home and you have a pet cat, it will eat some of your corpse if you're not discovered. Your cat will jump on your chest because they can hear your heart beating and they can tell when it stops. They can also hear you breathing so if you stop breathing, the cat will know because their hearing is much better than ours and they can hear all your body functions. This information is confirmed by police officers that respond to discoveries of bodies in their homes, they have small portions of their bodies consumed by their cat. 

The good news is you won't care because you're not alive. It's not an act of malice, it is just the cat feeling hungry and eating to stay alive: the cat wants to survive. It would also help with the smell because there would be less rotting body mass. 

Unusual Chemicals

Water Silicon and Gallium all expand when they solidify. Most materials shrink when they solidify if they're melted. 

Gallium is the only metal that expands when it solidifies. It melts slightly above room temperature at 29.76 °c. It melts in the palm of your hand and if it is in a rigid airtight glass container, it would break the container when it solidifies again. 

See Air Traffic with FlightRadar24

If you ever looked at a plane flying above your home and wanted to know what airline it is and where it is going, you can. 

There is a website that shows all the air traffic in your area called https://www.flightradar24.com, they also have a phone app. 

You can see all the planes in the sky above you and you can click on the air planes and it will tell you all the details about the flight, the flight number, destination and origin. 

Sloths are better at holding Thier breath

It is known that some Sloths can hold their for about 40 minutes but many dolphins can only hold their breath for 10 to 15 minutes so

Sloths are better at holding their breath than dolphins. 

It is believed that the sloth can lower their whole metabolism so they can go for longer without needing to breathe in and out. 

Nintendo is older than you Think

Nintendo was founded in 1889—making the company over 135 years old.

Long before making video games, Mario, or Game Boys, Nintendo started as a small business in Kyoto, Japan, manufacturing handmade Hanafuda (Japanese playing cards). They went on to run playing card tournaments, operate a taxi company, run a chain of "love hotels," and manufacture plastic toys before eventually transitioning into electronic arcade games and home consoles in the late 1970s.

True First Flight

The first human flight was in France in 1783 in a hot air balloon. This means it predated the American constitution when they were officially recognised as a nation with a government. 

The first human flight occurred at the same time America formed into a nation.

It wasn't a powerd flight like the wright brothers but it was still a flight.

The Americans declared themselves independent in 1776, then around the same time they won the war against the British, two french men flew in a balloon in Paris. This was  just before the American constitution in 1787. 

Charles Manson and The Beach Boys

Brian Wilson's  song never learn not to love by the Beach Boys was created by Charles Manson the Leader of the Manson Family murder cult. 

Before Charles Manson got his followers to go on a killing spree, he met Brian Wilson, a band member of the beach boys and tried to get him to add one of his songs. Eventually he agreed but changed the lyrics and name of the song. The song was originally called cease to exist, the tune was identical but they played it in their own style. 

Fusion Cricket Ball

If you were to throw a cricket ball at 10 million miles per hour (a small fraction of the speed of light) , it would cause the air Infront of it to undergo a nuclear fusion reaction. The ball and the air Infront of it would turn into super heated plasma and detonate as a thermal nuclear explosion. 

The thermal nuclear explosion would vaporise everything in the area including the ball and the person throwing the ball along with the air in the ball's path.

The good thing is no one can ever throw a ball that fast, the energy required to push the ball at that speed would be enormous, perhaps comparable to the output of an entire power station over a short period of time. 

War Of The Worlds Movie Fact

In 'War of the Words' 2005 directed by Steven Spielberg, the grandparents are played by the stars from the original war of the words movie. 

The Grandparents in the 2005 war of the words are played by Gene Berry and Ann Robinson.

They were the main stars of the 1953 version of the movie directed by Byron Haskins. It is hard to tell they were the original stars because they were aged and only appeared for a short time. 

Cartridge Based Arcade Machine

If you were wondering if there was an arcade cabinet that took cartridges: now you know.

The neo geo MVS arcade cabinet could take six neo geo cartridges. They worked differently to to the home console one and had a different shape but the games were the same code and quality. 

Instead of buying a new arcade machine, the Neo- Geo MVS could have new games or versions of the games added as cartridges and the Marquee could also be swapped out so it stayed up to date with the new games. 

Flag Flip

The meaning of some flags change when they are flipped over. 

If the Philippines are at war, their flag is flipped upside down so the red side is at the top and the blue side is at the bottom. The people in the Philippines know what it means. 

If you flip the polish flag 180 °, it resembles the Indonesian flag. The same is true of the Indonesian flag, if it is flipped upside down, it resembles the polish flag.