I remember how low and broke into another episode is no such thing as a fish weekly for gas coming to you from undisclosed locations. In the? U K, my name is: sure I, but I am sitting here with an addition, Ski Andrew Hunter, Murray and James Hearken, and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with fact number one. That's my fact. My fact this week is that fire fighters use ping pong bulls put out wildfires. Do they fire the pink both from enormous ping pong bats.

I am thinking here perhaps at the pink pearl. Balls are also enormous. Are you and they all you? Are you thinking that there, the wind from waving the bats, might put child fire world, I was thinking of one massive one per wildfire and he just loaded with water, and then you drop it on the other filled with water. There now- and I should just clarify for listener. Andy- is wrong as well. That is not how they do it. What this is in fact, it is. These are little ping pong ball call them ping pong balls? I couldn't officially find if they were taken from a ping pong ball bag that they look exactly the same and They are not Harry. What's a ping pong ball by you laughing at ball back James, I saw a lot. I wasn't. I was laughing at the idea that some of my bed to the specific bag, its inquiry, made according to dance definition. Nothing is a ping pong ball unless has been taken out. You know you

and she makes he's got a table. You ve got your bad. You got your balls, you gotta bring it bulls in a bag, so you to pull back for you pimples right. I wouldn't usually bring my own balls I have only have arrived at the table and they ve been there. I've never seen him yeah that my friend has got his balls and basically you have to be such a pro that you think bringing your own balls is: go improve your game. much less different. Color bulls. You're allowed to use different color of your eyes are better for Orange bulls. Let's say, then Oh you don't want him getting an advantage, but, like James says that doesn't play you are taking it. Quite seriously is like bring your own poor key to a pub, and then is yours. Looking like the biggest videos of who walks into the room, I turn down thy love. People have blue green color blindness. Do you think a lot of people struggle to see the color whites but can see the color orange design? I thought I had an advantage in PIG, Volga, Boatman Orange Bowls of me, you're playing in the snow, ok

dispelled excellent started the shutter, so one eye How about the actual facts, which is that this is used by wild fire fire fighters and they fly up and helicopters? And the idea is that, if there's a massive fire, you want to contain the fire by fighting them I with fire- and this is a classic thing- that fight is due on the ground. They have blow torches the idea, Is it you burn any surrounding? Would brush whatever it is on the ground, and it means nothing can feed the fire. That's trying to escape further out see contain it. So they worked out that if you put ping pong bowls up into a helicopter and you injected it with different chemicals and you effectively created a bomb in, sky by mixing these chemicals live up there, you drop them down and by the time they hit the ground, they burst into flames and put them helps out very quickly. So it's a really effective thing, so

these chemicals are potassium permanganate and glycol onto its basically police to chemicals together, and they create fire and spent like how rocket engines work they have to chemical than they go together. And they turn into flame, but potassium permanganate, which is the main one in these ping pong balls. It's also used to kill funky on your skin, so you put on your skin that creates oxygen, which kills the funding or chance is used to treat water issues to keep bananas for longer its use to age props in move. sets and its use to purify Coquet. All those different things is legal, I'll, multi purpose. That is go, it does mean bananas extremely followed, presumably or is it is? It was all I will. You get Bonanno and its covered in this stuff. If I just hold it the right way, it will spontaneously combust. It's slightly.

Different thing, so it's the oxidization, so so bananas creates ethylene, which makes them ripen and actually that's why you be poppin with other fruits. He'll make them all ripen really quickly, but this potassium permanganate will oxidize the ethylene. I'm remove it while recognising the it's really cool in these helicopters. They have a bull machine that all the bulls assessing it and They already have the potassium permanganate sitting inside it and when I'm getting ready for release? They they head down the bull machine to the end, where they're all individually injected, with the glycol just before their jobs, So it's live bomb making, basically yeah did you guys see the previous methods by which they used to do this, because there was the highly torch, which is a helpful. so with the hose attached to the bottom of it attached to a fifty gala drum of few. If he was a bit less precise than using the ping pong balls to be honest, but you do get because the cold boss, if you are the one flying the haddock.

I am still fairly confused Egypt, the bulls wherein they don't ignite. Today My own impact? How come they don't just explain the helicopter, because it's become reaction takes about twenty seconds for it to ignite within the bull. So also you really have to send them out really quickly is like holding a grenade, spend led exactly that. Lastly, what it is its pulling a pin on a grenade and then you loved them out of the helicopter, so they can actually go in flames before they ve made impact, but they fly at such a height that the idea is that once they landed that's about twenty seconds and then they can light up, I'm a floor circle, I'm so think on bulls and be used to be incredibly Farmville. Anyway, there was a change in twenty fourteen and they were made of celluloid. We ve talked about satellite before because it was used in old Cinemas, and it is why cinemas kept on setting on fire in the twenties

same thing Congo's, and if you go on line it says everywhere that, back in the olden days, pink Congo's used to just explode into flame mismatch, because if that he of African and everywhere says this is possible, if you get it, hot because it is very, very flammable, am I haven't, found a single piece of evidence of a single table tennis match where enables exposed inflate you'd have to, that's a pretty high yeah yeah. I didn't know the thing they used to have in ping pong, which has now been banned, speed glue? Have you come out of this aid clearing out her eyes? Big blue is a special glue that you, you, on your paddle. Blue. The rubber on with especial blue speed. Clue about half an hour before begins and that soaked into the layer of sponge between the rubber and the blade and what it does. Is it, makes the racket way more elastic than anomaly is because the rubber cells expand in contact with this coup, and it stretches

So it's like a trampoline for the ping pong ball. Every single shot you play and it is incredibly effective, making you much much better at table tennis and it's been banned by the Olympics. Two thousand It was the last time speed glue with a loud and they now have to official paddle controllers at the Olympics to to check if be anyone's doped that path, yeah. That's really address is weeks. You think we open if you go. you think it would be like one of those velcro ball games. You play happy, throw just sticks, you put it on the wrong side. He has very easy to detect stupid speed glued opens the cyber on you. I pass does a place in holborn. Remember walking past at once, and I was just looking at the wall in London is full of blue plaques, which tell you about its history and up there on the wall. It says that this is where Ping pong was invented and patented in ugly nineteen o one yeah so

there's some at this table. Tennis club that now, as in the cold bout setting some that yeah so like where it supposedly wood was invented, is still where you go to play its bike, and I couldn't I just can't find anything online to verify that include. bounces on website, which seems to have no interest in this remarkable bid, history that is cut connected to it to be valid, This is not a museum, its aim incidentally, the history of ping pong, it's really a place. You go to play founded AIDS, it see you don't go to, you know bowling alley. Unexpected history, both indeed. if it was the home of polling, if it was the site of neolithic bowling, would be message not to use that as part of the publicity materials. Apart from anything else, yeah you're right. They employ ass. Full of that here. This is a good we'll game, this should be a mecca of location or a book that was called everything. You know his palm and was claiming that ping pong is the most widespread of all the sports. The most

poured in supporting that we have. I mean you know that guy was bias. He was trying to sell a book on Ping pong oversee for that line. but I do know it's gonna historic. An amazing location, yeah. Just me, you just MCA with this one, I have a bag and you guys so I was really about thirties table tennis and, though, to be a thing of course, finger spin, which is basically you can, as it sounds spindle with your finger that was allowed was that before the rally stuff Ah, you couldn't like catch the ball. Hirlaji you'd know, as you were serving you could, Spin, the boy had it basically and you can have an impossible returned serve and gave became pointless. They had to universally Banda in nineteen thirty seven. But then there other changes as well. So, for example, this is from Britannica, they report slow or defensive play used to be hugely popular in the field of ping. Pong

and radio to sitting back waiting for Europe to make a mistake, but I'm quoting, right here, slow or defensive play at once. I was so dominant that at the nineteen thirty six world championships in Prague and our was needed to decide a single point. Imagine bigger periods without my lighted, the backache of outside that you know how many hits it was Andy, because, a couple weeks ago we mention the longest, tell tennis rally of all time which we, yes, I don't know how many has it was, but I think the longest tennis rally was about half an hour. Wasn't really was not even minutes was a yeah. So this is twice as long and tabled. Hunters is a fast

So I think I might smash out the rest. I would like in this case, maybe now it may have been only ten hit. They just put it really really just got stuck in the rafters come down. Eventually, lot was a match with the glue and on the wrong side of the paddles was carry. It is time for black number two, and that is Andy. My vote is that it takes great people through an ultra sound on a python. which ones that as the Erika I D. So this is a story that happened at just a zoo in two thousand and twelve and it was only extremely big pipe and so maybe, with some smaller pipelines, it'll take fewer people, baby with some, especially Wrigley ones. It'll take take more good kind of rule of thumb for how it takes. It was a snake good, Bali, Python, reticulated, python, witches I think the longest kind in the world and by

We at the time was reputed to be the biggest snake in Europe, so pretty exciting needed a health check up and she was six point six metres long, and as a result, they needed eight handlers to move her cause. She wait ninety kilos and has the capacity for aggression and, unsurprisingly, and there are these great photos of them moving the snake all in a big conquered. I guess, and they ve got her head in a tube- is very funny as some to keep this night come. You just put the head in a big old tube and then that stuff I also saw another one: injustice zoo, those another snake called J, F Anthea. Instead of paying the head in a tube, they covered their eyes with someone's eyes. So one of the in this case it was ten people, one of them covered their eyes with the hand eight of them. held the snake on the table and those a little hole in the bottom of the table and the tenth person was hiding under the table with the for sound ally of shoved them up the whole, so you could see only inside the snake do they need

the snake down while they're doing it is not the carrying the most of the people there to stop it from wriggling away, while because a stronger lay that basically just muscle they are strong. I would not want that holding my hand in front of the eyes of a snake that close with your hand right out. Next out is madness: it would buy. You know reticulated pipelines that not venomous is the person. Who's gonna get squeezed he's in trouble, but it is be worth it because you are obviously the eight coolest people in the zoo. Oh, ok, cool is a snake What is the ultra sound guys? I don't get it it was already there. I reckon listeners what we have at this episode of million people. I reckon off the million people. Listen to this episode. Possibly

Twelve would have got that Josiana right and if you got the ultrasound choices, we are confident enough that we have an approaching postponed the penultimate from our economies. More people with me saying cool is a snake and that's not even a thing so many scientists have done bizarre experiments to try and work out the secrets of snakes and ask me because they are very confusing animals so Balkans, actors which these squeezes they're, the ones who wrapped themselves around their prey. Scientists wanted to cows, how long they squeeze for and why I had to work on their behaviour in the wild, and they did this by such a grisly experiment. They put fake, beating hearts into dead rats, but dead rights that were still warm. so the boat constraints with Thank o pray and they measured how long the boat constricted squeeze full, so they normally squeeze

Twenty minutes, which quite long very long time actually, but when the scientist shut off, they fight cars after ten minutes they stopped squeezing soon. After that, I thought. Oh, it's safe, so that's how we know that both are measuring the heart rate of their prey as they squeeze entrusting. So they don't care. By squeezing the era of you that kill you by giving you a hossack, sat right yeah in rough already. I M really interesting thing about snakes. I didn't know which is that they effectively where contact lenses, natures, contact, lens not prescription, and we know this because obviously we ve studied snakes, but a really interesting thing happens to all snakes as a result of this, little cap that sit over there. I it's a sort of they dont have eyelid. So it's a sort of protective cap translucent most snakes in the The brown I'd be yellow I'd a few, a blue eyed. But at some point all snakes go blue eyed and its part of the ship being process. When this

make is shutting skin. It goes through different phases and there's a phase is known as the blue phase and the blue phase is when milky fluid, builds up underneath the old skin to allow it to slip off and as the eyes or power if that they eyes have scales, so these ocular scales that sit there they fill up with this milky blue. and suddenly, every snake at one point: just has these crazy, completely blue eyes? So if you see a snake would completely blue eyes it's about to shed orbit skin, that's the stage just before it all comes off s really interesting cousin. I did the why workshop on radio to with so he ball last week. I think with AL expel him. He was talking about this as well, just by coincidence and unsaid that I like they get these milky eyes, but also the skin, just start to feel loose around so you can imagine like suddenly all your clothes got tat this a beggar or something you just kind of veal, like your in the wrong kind,

skin and that's how you know it's time to slither out and you ve slither Alphabet Alex was saying it's like if you have a Sakharov I need wiggle JA afar. Until the sock comes often you drag your foot backwards out of it. I usually just pulled him off in my and I suppose that it during this night about does very insensitive to tighten. They don't know that all persons, it's this. This fact was about they a giant pray suit, discussed before their metabolism, so extraordinary things too. I just it, but they have very special to avoid choking cause the danger? is that why you're eating something massive block, your windpipe, so some persons just globe that your clear out of the corner of the mouse they vomit up their windpipe essential, hangs out of the corner of them out, so that they can eat all my god so that they can carry on breathing gap cause the bran. Why is outside of the exactly very I suppose that's nothing ever goes down the runway. Basically, if you can do that, yeah yeah, just don't

leave it on a pay. Not this lying on the floor was defending like a worm could crawl up. There are something right. That's true! I guess that's one good reason why we have it at our throats. Nothing else can get that we have put in our mouths theoretical point. You feel like such an idiot python if you have with resolving a dead and you accidentally choked because my word and cruelly whether by that's so cool, have you heard of the african egg eating snake. I love this one were where's that from a what's the eight begun by the strong Africa let its eggs- eggs that away wider than its head and is on, but you know how you see snakes where the big lump inside of its prey. It's so funny, because is perfectly egg shaped, obviously the lump inside, but it has to break the eggs somehow, but it breaks them after its eat. Them, that's the weird thing, and it does so because it had lumps on the inside of it spine and that's what it is to break the shell

it has to smash food against the inside of its own backbone in order to eat it right. I found a really wimpy snake, that I totally relate to old, a hug no snake, but we also those nay ugly. Snake is a snake that, when its threatened most snakes, a bad ass. Aren't they they rise and they scare you in there ready for a fight. The Haug no snake is terrified and basically when it feels its under threat from a predator, it fakes its own death in front of the predator. So it starts. Just kind of like God, you got me nothing. It starts rolling on the ground on its back going upside down its mouth wide, open as if it sort of choking on poison, it proves itself it lays belly up and is a kind of. Secretion that smells really bad like Pooh, and then then it just lays there with its mouth, open, dead and waits for the predator to walk away, because a lot of work does want to eat something that's alive and also its there could have.

I was just sit themselves in front of you. I'm just gonna walk away slightly embarrassed I mean tat after after we did the rigid Harry the other night, we did have an altercation with an extremely angry extreme drunk man, and I was wondering where you got those moves from about, and I apologise about the smell ITALY. The waiter means necessary saved our lives. Have you guys heard of grace olive wily ok. This is an amazing kind of her pathologist and snake expert from history ass. She was the first person to successfully breed diamond back rattlesnakes in captivity, but she started off her love of snakes when she worked. Minneapolis library and shit snakes in the library, but she liked them so much then them be caged up, so they just kind of slip.

The term mine her office, is the fly that basically her colleagues did like this at all and forced her to leave the library and then so she went to Brookfield Zoo and decided to work there and she just let them out and go wherever they wanted and that one state nineteen snakes escaped. went off into the entire town on the whole town shut down and so that she got fired from the zoo, then She wants California and she became a snake experts and she was a snake trainer for the jungle book, I'm all the Tarzan movies train or even longer, because I've seen both jungle books, a knighted them involve training, any snakes who was the drawings I would say this. I must say, though, that you said I dare say she was a snake train and reptile consulting, perhaps see trade, the snakes for some of them had she consulted for the other, one see you confirmed, I do thing,

and then, unfortunately, in nineteen. Forty eight, famous at this stage there was some prefer came to take a photo of her and they took a photo with flash. While she was holding a snake, the snake spooked it bit her, and there was only one file of the correct answer: venom in the local hospital other had been accidently broken and she couldn't be saved and she died home, Well, I mean I don't sound intensive, but she had it coming up a super. She genuinely thought that people should be afraid of snakes and they caught really You, unless they're really really scared, and I think that is kind of borne out. You know it was only because of this massive flash that she died, sort of, although a hunch twenty. Five thousand people a year are killed by snake, so let's be a bit afraid of them that servant. Think of the staff. I guess most of us are told is that

No one in Australia where all of them I spent a mistakes in the world are has died in the last fifty years, wherever because there are so many country other Yan, although apparently, if we get a snakes, we're not she's gonna snakes, we just scared of triangles. This is a theory. Basal some of the latest research have diamond bats, rattlesnakes and stuff like that they ve got those countries English shapes exact, shapes on their bodies quite often and you'll get snow so have triangular heads like cobras sort of have their heads playing out those study that showed children, pictures of like snakes, zigzags on them and then snakes, o thou and then snakes triangular, hasn't snakes are the rounded aids and then various other shapes, and then they all the kids. Are these mean or nice, and whenever, though, is a triangle in it something triangular? They said it was mean, and we think that the snakes about she evolved. These triangular shapes on them too

our fear to scare us away, because we have an understandable fears, shop, stuff like a tooth or knife or something that could kill us, so we're afraid of sharp things. So the snake scratch you would like a girl put sharp looking self love. My body has really trust in is that why shit myself, whenever I say, Tell Bureau, yeah why not amend the office was ruined tasted. If I read a paper about something similar which was that they Wyatt people up with something it's who tell how much sweat your producing and also what you're hot writers and they showed them pictures of snakes, but they didn't tell them which ones were venomous and which ones were not. That of us and people's heart rate stuff went up when they saw the venomous once a nazi they solve numbered amongst one. So you kind of naturally no- and I didn't have any previous knowledge of these snakes. They just naturally seem to know which ones with dangerous. What about this go easy boys, sorry, what its strength

do you not naturally cause if you naturally, no, which ones venomous that's very useful unless you're, that area, which has also constructive makers, knowing that you are now being like it, I'm not that they generally, they don't go for humans today. The constructive- you're very much, but I it does happen, sometimes authorities the snake expert consultant on the jungle Burke, who advised cars constantly we Swedes, by destroying, thing by the way why we not scared of triangles and just in nature, if we were, we scared of things that look like triangles. There aren't trying lenses flaw in the study. I guess we so know that if you join trying on a piece of paper that it some not dangerous, that may, but we are. Maybe if you look at triangle, your heart rate goes a little bit higher than if you look at a circle, I guess they haven't on the study it did you not find that your children, when they have those like blocks that you had to put the men like the triangular block? They were scared of it.

Or what they just confirmed, because you would try to put it to the square hole? Yes, I was trying to get back its get back. There we got. Haven't. I put a cop over the triangle blocks and I put a sheet of paper underneath by throwing them in the UK. It is time for fact, number three, and that is Anna. My thought this week is that one of the hardest gemstones to find is called here tonight. But that is not why it's cool flavouring is this is think I'd never heard of, but I think unless you're a gemstone fanatic, it's not very well known, it's a type of sport do mean, and I am sure you know what that is. Which is a mineral which contains lithium, which is often sought after because people look for it for things like phones, no use, lithium phones and things like that, since the time of that

and is the rarest type. So it's only found was only been found so far in America, whereas first found in North Carolina just and then in Madagascar, Brazil and maybe Afghanistan and China, no but only little little bits and yet schools hidden nights. Wiser called her deny them yeah. I thought I saw that might be a follow up question and the reason is called him night is because it was discovered, by a geologist good, William, o hidden or it was discovered by someone who gave it to him and he set out its wit, and so he sent it to us and experts. HU, I didn't find it and he was actually there in North Carolina eighteen. Seventy nine looking for placid, em and he'd been sent by Thomas Edison, who wanted to do some some ship platinum and he didn't find any

but we did find hidden. I enable a plot of land set up a mine made a whole bunch of my. He also found another thing that he called at the sunlight. Another one called back until shite, waterproof diamond swiftly was named after a guy called J B. Can such who heat works with some isn't really going to fight the new stuff, a name it after his mates he was. It is amazing that the number of mineral aims that are bizarre is in almost because there are so many minerals and they will have to be named of something and a lot of them are named after places. That's very commons, a you call night or whatever it might be. There is a mineral called taco night, which I love, which is named after the tectonic, mountains yoke, but then wonder I think, we'd marginal July, the tv show is well shite, which is a welcome.

Which is named after Wilfred. Well, she yeah there is actually a place called tackle night, which is named after a mine which finds this, which contains this tackle nightmare mineral, and I went on to some really hot tell what's there on Google MAPS causes no street view on it. For some reason by went to a website called months, dot com which soliciting service for small businesses, and apparently there is a restaurant, called Tahoe night by tacos. Apparently, if anyone lives in talking like that, do let us know if not stray every mode is Taco Delite, that's what you must have thought of the flag at that's so good. I just covered my favorite mineral in the course of this research and it is a minimal called Olivain. An Levine is marketable mineral it makes up to sixty to eighty percent of earth upper mantle. So it's that we have so much of it. And the amazing thing about it, is that when its ground up it can it economies

orbits own mass of carbon dioxide. So there lot of scientists are out there who are trying to use it to help with them. the global warming Why are we not using it because it's so useful and we have so much of it? So there is a group that called project Vesta who have this idea where they want to grind it down and basically give us green colored sandy beaches all over the world, because we can be soaking up the carbon dioxide there and supposedly eve. Action coming in on the sand actually speeds up the process because it's not as fast as other things like trees and sea weed and so on, for absorbing carbon dioxide. However, there is much area of land where we don't have those things. So why not shock this stuff on there to help us? Do that and dumb it also d

city finds the ocean in the process when the waves are coming in since this incredibly useful mineral we'll get out your book as in spades people, we can contribute to the fight against climate change. So does another spot, you mean which had the nicest spot. You mean there's another one. We can call my call couldn't site, which was named after George Frederick Codes, who was the chief jeweller of Tiffany Anko, and he went around the world collecting minerals

and his collection was the beginning of the. U S: natural history, museum, stone collection. There was an George concierge and there's a few Mason things that he that there was a big arguments in the mineral wealth about whether there was any jade in Europe. So there was some ancient peoples who kind of hard loads of direct jade ordinance, but no one could find any jade in Europe. So what that suggested for archaeologists is. Maybe there was some weird unknown prehistoric, jade trading system that we would get in the end from China or something now people have been looking for decades and decades for Jane, but they'd never found any one problem is that unless she polish, it just looks like green rock, like greenish rock, so is really hard to find anyway, couldn't sweat to Germany and decided he would have a look and on his first day of looking

he found a lump of J. That was two point, five tonnes, which was more in not single piece of Jays than anyone. It found of all the J that anyone it found in the whole of history before that day salute the amazing and he later row light with completely. They ruin the Korea of more than one german Scala by just fine, this one giant acts as a rule. These experts, business jades trading- that must have happened than anyone like no I've just proved. It's not true wound. he's domes about with such reverence and the gemstone community. The greatest Jem find wherever and I am waiting quite large tracts of one of the books he wrote, which is called Shakespeare in precious stones and- covers every single reference to a precious stone or germ all crystal and all of Shakespeare works plus comments about the context. So today instead of like in in view. this and Adonis he the sonnet, he writes honey tongues

spare rights of a ruby, colored portal. Guy Ruby mention Richard the second Develop fan Crystal Sky, but you know the other cool thing about him and you say you re married, I didn't see who married? No, no, I didn't he married a gemstone, someone called out While not only that we ve mentioned Opel can even sure yeah there aviator the first female Aviate. It's a race against men. In the nineteen twenty years. This huge bavarian female flying it we ve mentioned they were married in our Amelia, harder and car believe I didn't notice that eyes may is not girl power. Couple amazing to those of a love, minerals and named after people. So there have been five thousand four hundred and ninety three minerals that have been named in the world: half of them and named after people so was about two thousand seven hundred supply that she does

some hundred fifty. How many do you think of named after women say fifty, I'm just gonna more than half Surprise us all of us its one hundred and twelve Kiev named after ninety six different women, so few people, a few women have got to name Duff but a hundred twelve five thousand four hundred and ninety three is not sell. Gray is one of the world's largest emeralds. Every school Patricia it's not a glamorous enough name for an emerald needs wriggled lay low. There are such fabulous ear. The biggest emeralds in the world have very like a very mixed ability: field of I'm, so is one cold that you could Devin truck is Uncle one thousand four hundred and ninety two is one cool, p: DOT m: ongoloo and terrorism, which is nearly three thousand carrot. Vas carved from a single block of emerald, said Aunt em, there's one called Patricia, which does feel like it,

the poor cousin doing is named after anyone or did the person like the name. It is named after the door, of the man who owned the mind in which Patricia was discovered. Our task like at fostering those that a mineral called Malcolm Light, which was discovered on the moon while collides Genoa. The name came from, went when what year we talking is its post, lending? It was found in nineteen sixty nine Paulo Eleven year here of the moon landing. Here we go children in his related to our Oh, oh Aldrin or Collins on alkaline, strong, all drink some claim that already people home as but named after three people, which is quite clear that our co, like does really cool, There is a commission on mineral naming. That's how our male colleagues and all the other minerals would have had the names of proof

There is a commission on new minerals and mineral names, because there are these five thousand and how many times said, and every other, get about eighty applications for new mineral and then a test them and its rejects quite a few of the applicants, because they just their existing chemical formula, the new form of an old mineral and so then not allowed to be. but I felt like a fund committee, does it on, I guess, yeah how many people are really suggesting names? I guess it's just to put the people found them. I think you're, a big, very few applications for names for people you haven't found. A lot of US

border locked down. Ok, it's time for a final, vacuous show, and that is James. Ok, my thought this week is that the world record for crushing watermelons with your files is three and seven point five seconds. The new recalled holder, Courtney, Olsen teachers and eight weak cause on how to crush watermelons with the authorized a week. Us a more, I imagine, a lot of that of the preparatory strength building, because if no there's a lot of having a night, we call for a seven second record. I suppose that you had to explain the history of the watermelon probably it first six weeks, get the blue black well, let's see if we can do it in a little bit less links this ok, so let me pay the picture of what actually happens in these video so

he set some flaw. She's got some watermelons by her side. She puts her legs out in front of her and she crossed her ankles and then she grubs watermelon puts it between the legs and squeezes until it explodes, and they get some next one and then gets next one. Other people with salt watches, and you can see that it has taken her just seven and a half seconds to do that and she's beats in the previous record, which was held by a man called row. Holler dash Munsey Irey. He was a body builder who did it in twenty seventeen and eat at ten point, eight eight seconds and the previous record for women was fourteen point six five seconds by a ukrainian strong woman called older leadership, it's real falls briefly moment for the watermelon, crushing sport as an ex summer faster than the previous women's record and amount it is. It takes a lot of force to do that. I think it's about twenty six stone worth of force by three hundred sixty four pounds for so That is like what to three quite light people or to quite heavy

people, one very heavy person sitting on us. It is pretty. Bloody, impressive, that she can do it, but still not quite enough. hey you're wondering to crush somebody scope, so you do come across and you cross her. She can't crush your skull with eyes that takes about five hundred and twenty pound where's the force while, but if you all walking home with your watermelon and your excited for the design is going to provide for your dinner party, she can ruin that area. She is the danger of modern and cease to be a lot easier to crush with your size, because these to be about, two inches across really early watermelons with really any yeah when what there is a long time ago? Well they come from and we started cultivating them really early. Like thousands of years ago, we have depictions in Tooting communes Tomb, don't we oh yeah watermelons? Ben those, but there's a big though that's why I'm not sorry, that's all I'm asking Andy, I don't know when they were tiny, so I think basically there are lots of species of works. Well,

The ones that you get in Africa mostly grown and wild now are quite small, not quite small, as on this epoch, pretty small. But then you would get a domesticated ones as well. That would bigger. They have been around for at least three thousand five hundred years because they found some watermelon leaves and egyptian too, and they took a tiny little bit of one of them from Q, gardens unchecked its genes and it had to special genes, one of them that makes them have a red flash of one of them that gets rid of that kind of better takes that these smaller ones in Africa have so that we do know that this one that was in a tomb in three thousand five hundred years ago. was kind of red and ferry succulents, not better. It was actually sweet. Tasted which is now, and yet you dance right is, though, do drawing up the one on injection to, and it might be, the one on King Toots looks like our standards, Wolfman, stripes and everything. Doesn't. It is confirmation

The reason we started breeding them so early parenting is because they were basically used as multiple cells, which may since the full of water, and we think that I was a source of water, so fringes when Livingston went to Africa and then he said that the interior of watermelon supplied the place of water for many months of the year in the Interior of Africa. Met of Africa is travelling there, so they use instead of water in a similar way. We think that they put them on tombs. Maybe people speculate because it was like a drink to help you in the afterlife quite long track into the afterlife partner in some Malta, and yet this someone as an anthropologist, he wrote that they had a unique role as a natural canteen like a natural Carson for fresh horses. Are you? Are you? running water and now all using the natural waters off the watermelon. using the water, you don't empty the watermelon out of water and then reinstall it with water point well, because,

specially there was a study at the University of Naples quite recently that thinks that it's better to hydrates with watermelon juice than it is to hydrate with water, and that's because they are almost completely water. Something might well over ninety percent water, but the extra bets are like sugars and essential salts which help you to rehydration, and basically it's a bit more similar to your bodies, composition than actual water, and the closer illiquid is too bodies composition that Asia is for it to get AIDS yourselves sunk cover a cardiologist it is, it is the most extraordinary texture me. I was genuine before this factor sense, and I had a watermelon about two weeks ago and when I was voicing into an hour, so there is nothing like this. There is nothing else. I've ever put my put into my mouth that has this kind of texture. It's it's So bizarre, and I guess it's it's ninety two to ninety four percent water, that its I don't know- I mean every pretty much everything is up there in the nineties, I mean what's going on

How can that be yea, fruits and vegetables is ninety fool. Spillage is more than most melon. It's not as juicy son aware that what has been hidden yellow, Oh geez, Kojak Terrible up in the nineties. Aren't there don't know how we build easy and you I don't know, maybe it's not bad, but there's something about watermelon texture, which is, unless it's very alien to the rest of food. It's almost like it's like a warm ice Keith, but not quite as hard as yeah. It's It's like when you crushed waste into tiny bits, and it's almost like a wide yeah slowly doing we're input costs. A people don't know would not. Boca describes in great detail that everyone has just like just to ago. I have lots of literally I had about two minutes before we came up I am a watermelon. Controversy is about watermelon knockers, and these are people who

test the rightness of their watermelons in tapping or knocking or slapping. that wasn't. The first use of the word knock as I was thinking of what you said was about that no results hang about them, but no luck! whatever the National Watermelon Promotion Board, which is a very austere. An important body devoted to the promotion of watermelons in every form, officially advises against. Not No watermelon test is rightness. They advise instead. Obviously, the look left turn method. Which is why you look at it. You lifted up test. If it's heavy is heavy, that's good, and then u turn, and you observed field spot of cases where the water metal was sitting on the ground when it was growing and idea watermelon the field. Sport should be a soft butter. A yellow is white To my mind, is not ready. Yet if it's gone, crazy, canary, yellow, then its overripe, but a perfectly nice of butter yellow you should have a good boy

moment on the inside target tonight and that grain that lets you know I had so two weeks ago I had a banana hands. When was this a very solid, but you are having, because you had What amounts to a level healthy weeks ago, I was on the bridge of opening it am I stopped because it is a bit too green. I thought how nice the banana has. Let me know that it's not ready on the outside on the outside its telling me no and same, I didn't know that watermelons handouts, I will you know they re very thoughtful freight

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