#TenThingsLearnt w/c Feb 17
1. The asteroid flying towards Earth now has a 3% chance of making impact. Previously it was 2% 😳…
2. …we can only observe the asteroid until April 2025. Then, it’ll disappear and reappear in 2028… which might be too late.
3. There was once a gathering of people with sea-life surnames. The event was hosted by legendary weather man, Michael Fish, at a Sea Zoo, and the guest were gifted the fish they were named after.
4. Over the past 20 years the insect population in the UK has declined by 60% 😳
5. Microsoft's new "topological qubit" chip is not built on a solid, liquid or gas surface, but on a phase of matter many experts did not think was possible.
6. Janet Jackson has been married 3 times. Her Husbands include a former backing dancer who directed the iconic ‘That’s the way love goes’ video.
7. Malcolm X visited the English town of Smethwick in February 1965. Shortly afterwards they had - what is described as - the most racist election campaign in British history.
8. Ireland is the ONLY country to have been colonised in Western Europe. This is why they’ve always stood with Palestine; they DEEPLY understand wtf is happening. The privilege of whiteness has never blinded them from the truth.
9. Under the reign of The Third Reich people began having nightmares in which The Third Reich had made dreaming illegal. They’d wake up screaming.
10. Thailand means ‘land of the free’.