European Countries

Ukraine and France are the biggest countries in Europe, most of Russia is in Asia. France is twice the size of the United Kingdom. 

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1. Russia - 17,098,242 square kilometers

2. Ukraine - 603,550 square kilometers

3. France - 551,695 square kilometers

4. Spain - 505,990 square kilometers

5. Sweden - 450,295 square kilometers

6. Norway - 385,207 square kilometers

7. Germany - 357,022 square kilometers

8. Finland - 338,455 square kilometers

9. Poland - 312,696 square kilometers

10. Italy - 301,340 square kilometers

11. United Kingdom - 242,495 square kilometers

12. Romania - 238,397 square kilometers

13. Belarus - 207,600 square kilometers

14. Greece - 131,957 square kilometers

15. Bulgaria - 110,879 square kilometers

16. Iceland - 103,000 square kilometers

17. Hungary - 93,030 square kilometers

18. Portugal - 92,090 square kilometers

19. Austria - 83,879 square kilometers

20. Czech Republic - 78,865 square kilometers

21. Serbia - 77,474 square kilometers

22. Ireland - 70,273 square kilometers

23. Lithuania - 65,300 square kilometers

24. Latvia - 64,589 square kilometers

25. Croatia - 56,594 square kilometers

26. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 51,209 square kilometers

27. Slovakia - 49,036 square kilometers

28. Estonia - 45,227 square kilometers

29. Denmark - 43,094 square kilometers

30. Switzerland - 41,290 square kilometers

31. Netherlands - 41,543 square kilometers

32. Moldova - 33,846 square kilometers

33. Belgium - 30,528 square kilometers

34. Albania - 28,748 square kilometers

35. North Macedonia - 25,713 square kilometers

36. Slovenia - 20,273 square kilometers

37. Montenegro - 13,812 square kilometers

38. Kosovo - 10,887 square kilometers

39. Cyprus - 9,251 square kilometers

40. Malta - 316 square kilometers

Source : Chat GPT 3.5 

Lottery Face

The Logo for the British National Lottery has a face hidden in plain sight. It looks like a hand with the fingers crossed for good luck, but when you take a closer look you can see it also has a face. 

The two curled up fingers are the eyes and the hand line is a mouth. 

Dizzy Facts

You don't have five senses, you have more than that. You can sense the direction of gravity. The organ that senses the direction of gravity (what way is up or down) is called vestibular system, it can be found deep in your ears.

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JellyFish have a similar system, if one is born in a  micro gravity environment, they become dizzy after  they're brought back to earth. The sudden introduction of gravity causes them to get vertigo. 

Source : 'Can You Get Jellyfish in Space' by Dr Sheila Kanani, ISBN 978-0-241-66983-9 

DNA From Your Mum

Most of the DNA in your cells is inherited from your mother. You inherit 23 Chromosomes from your father and 23 from your mother. 

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You also inherit Mitochondria DNA from your Mother so overall most of your DNA comes from your mum.  

sources : Freehand knowledge of Alan Booth, the Author of this blog. 

Air Composition

Believe it or not Carbon-Dioxide is not the third most abundant gas in the atmosphere. Argon is the third most Abundant gas at just under 1% of the atmosphere composition. 

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Most of the atmosphere is made of Nitrogen (78%) Oxygen is 20.9 % of the atmosphere. Carbon-Dioxide comprises less than half of one percent of the Earth's atmosphere. 0.04 % to be exact. 

Sources : Wikipedia CO2 article

The Periodic Table by Tom Jackson (paper back) 

Air Is Magnetic

Oxygen is Paramagnetic, this means it becomes magnetic when it is present in a magnetic field and attracted to it. All the other gases in the air, Nitrogen and Argon are Diamagnetic they become magnetic when they're in a magnetic field but are repelled by it. 

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The main component of air, nitrogen is slightly repelled by magnetic fields. But oxygen is attracted by Magnetic fields; all the gases in the air react to magnetic fields.

Source : The Periodic Table by Tom Jackson 

Super Batteries

In recent years, standard cylindrical battery makers have started putting lithium power cells into rechargeable AA and AAA batteries and have managed to increase their storage ability to a staggering 3000 milliamps (3 amp-hours). At the same time they still managed to cap the voltage at 1.2 without causing them to explode or burn, that is astonishing. 

(Cropped screen shot taken from a shopping site.)

These things will literally last all day for normal uses. 

With clever circuitry, a single lithium AA battery can power a 50 inch TV  for long enough to watch a movie. 

Source : Hands on observation of Alan Booth through experience.