Light speed!

Light doesn’t always travel at ‘the speed of light’ (299,792,458 metres per second). It only travels at that speed when travelling through a vacuum; when it passes through matter, it slows down. The slowest light has ever been recorded moving at is a 38mph, while passing through an ultracold gas of sodium atoms.

So if you have been down the M1 you van say you have travelled travled faster than light!

Twins!

Twins are always born at about the same time.

But the world record for the longest gap between one twin being born and its sibling emerging is held by American Peggy Lynn, who gave birth to twins on November 11 1995, and February 2 1996 - an incredible 84 days apart.

I have been away for a week so a small catch up

According to MBT a shoe company, flip-flops 'injure 200,000 people a year'.


The injuries range from trips and falls, joint pain and other conditions linked to long-term use, and it costs the NHS £40m a year! Yes these innocuous looking pieces of cheap, flimsy plastic are death traps in disguise.

Fillip, not just a boys name

I found this one intresting, a brief thank you to Tom Brennan for telling me this.

A fillip is the act of clicking your fingers. So you dont click you fillip!

Its been a while

Its been a while and I am really struggling. Most days I try to work out if something i have learnt is worthy of blogging or just a silly bit of trivia. Both sides interest me but this journey is definitely pushing me to try harder with the things I am blogging. So this is the 1st of my belated posts .

The Eiffel Tower, built in 1889, stands at 325 m high and is the seventh tallest building in France. Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, had a successful career as an architect despite having dyslexia and a paralyzing fear of heights.

Gustave also helped design the Statue of Liberty!!

Life would have been so different

In a very early draft of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones carried brass knuckles instead of a bullwhip.

Man on the moon

The last person on the moon was Eugene Cernan. He and fellow explorer Harrison Schmidt left the moon at 5.40, December 13th 1972 and no one has been to the moon ever since.

This black and white picture was taken from a color television transmission made by the color RCA TV camera mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit.

Harrison is in front with Eugene behind.