Taxi Cheaper than Trains?

It is cheaper for four people to go from High Wycombe Train Station to Marylabone train station by Taxi than by train.

A single trip from high Wycombe costs £16.50 for one person.  By Uber it costs about £40 on average but the car has room for four passengers! If there were four passengers they would only pay £10 each. 

This info is based on my own observations and access to my Uber App. I believe this is true of many other stations. 

Most Premature Birth

According to the Guinness World Records, a boy called 'Curtis Means' was the most prematurely born baby to survive. 

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He was born in the second trimester of birth, about halfway through normal pregnancy cycle. He was roughly 4 & ½ months premature. 

With the aid of technology more and more infants are surviving being born during the second trimester of pregnancy. 

To the Coast

It's cheaper drive to the coast from most cities in Britain than to take the train. 

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My findings are based on my own experiences. For example two hours of dual carriageway driving in my car gets you about 100 miles and a uses ⅓ of a tank, that works out as £12 in each direction. Two hours of driving will give you access to quite a lot of the Sussex or summerset coastline from London and the Thames Valley. Most train tickets to the coast cost more than £20 in each direction. Most cars have 5 seats so you can take the whole family with you.

If you have a hybrid or electric car then the difference in price is even greater. 

Water on Mars

According to NASA, one of the most important things they found out about Mars was discovering rocks that form in liquid water. They believe that the planet once had water oceans and rivers. 

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Another important discovery was finding rocks with magnetic minerals that were aligned to the poles of the planet. Although the magnetic fields of Mars have faded away, in the past they existed. Mars once had a strong magnetic field protecting its atmosphere from solar wind particles. 

Mario Facts

The computer game character Mario's full name is Mario Mario and his Brother's full name is Luigi Mario. They were named after Mario Segal, he was the landlord that rented a large warehouse out to Nintendo. He should've been called Alan 🙄

He was originally called Jump man but they renamed him Mario when the landlord did Nintendo a favour, being nice gets you far. Nintendo originally wanted Popeye the sailor man to be their main character but they couldn't get the license so they used jump man from Donkey Kong instead and gave him the name Mario. He then gained a brother when the game became two players. In the original side scrolling games, Mario looks like he is headbutting the bonus boxes but if you look closely, you'll find he is actually pressing them with his hand. 

Venus Facts

According to some NASA Blog posts, the planet Venus is believed to once have water oceans on the surface. They came to the conclusion because planetary orbiters were detecting rocks that form in the presence of water. 

It is also believed the planet's rotatation was slowed down because it was hit by a dwarf planet with a glancing blow. This caused a chain reaction, the magnetic field failed because of the slowed down rotation and that caused solar wind particles to reach the atmosphere and strip away water and nitrogen. The atmosphere was then replaced with a dry thick blanket of CO2 by volcanoes. Soon after that, the planet had a run away greenhouse effect. 

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.