🧩🧀 Mix It Up: Puzzles, Energy, and Vintage Cheese!

🧩🧀 Mix It Up: Puzzles, Energy, and Vintage Cheese!


$1 million  -  Value of an amber nugget used by an elderly Romanian woman to prop open a door. After her death her family realised it was a rare gem that could be 70 million years old and sold it to the Romanian state. 


46 years  -  Length of time that an 88-year-old Japanese man had spent on death row - the longest in the world. However, this week he was acquitted after it was found the evidence used against him was fabricated. He was accused of killing his boss, the man's wife and their two teenage children in 1968.


3,600 years  -  Age of the world's oldest cheese. It's just been discovered in Xinjiang, China and is a mix of cow and goat cheese. It was found scattered on the necks of three mummies in a cemetery in western China. 


1968  -  Year that the Oakland Athletics baseball team moved into their home at the Oakland Coliseum. The team leaves the city this week to move to Sacramento, before another move to Las Vegas in 2028. The Chicago Cubs are the team who have stayed put the longest - they were founded in 1876 and have never moved. 


10%  -  Percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions that come from the fashion industry. That's more than the shipping and aviation industries combined. 


37 minutes  -  Time it took 30-year-old Kristin Thuv from Norway to complete a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle and become World Jigsaw Champion this week. The chosen picture was of tigers and greenery. (WATCH)


6%  -  Percentage of divorced couples in the UK who re-marry again. The divorce rate is 50% but dropping each year as people can no longer afford the associated costs. 


22 - Size of Eric Kilburn's feet. The 16-year-old from Michigan holds the world record for the biggest feet on a teenager. He also holds the record for the biggest hands. 


23 meters square - Size that a golden cube would have to be to contain all of the gold ever discovered on Earth. It would weight 244,000 metric tons. 


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Ranking the best 100 TV episodes of all time  



This Week in History . .


1822 - The Rosetta Stone is first deciphered (see it in the British Museum


1889 - Nintendo was founded as a playing card company (see some here)


1905 - Einstein publishes his paper on the special theory of relativity. He died in 1955 meaning that his life overlapped with Jackie Chan, Oprah Winfrey, and John Travolta (all born in 1954.)


1908 - Production of the Ford Model T begins (buy one now for £10k)


1952 - "Superman" Christopher Reeve was born. In 1998 he published an autobiography about his life and accident three years earlier that paralysed him. He called the book "Still Me". 


Enjoy your weekend!




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