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.