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.