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According to the National Cyber Security Centre, the five most commonly hacked passwords are: ‣ 123456 (23.2 million users) ‣ 123456789 (7.7 million users) ‣ Qwerty (3.8 million users) ‣ Password (3.6 million users) ‣ 1111111 (3.1 million users) #knowledge

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Friendship is not about who you spend the most time with, it’s about who you have the best time with. #tips

Talking to yourself in the third person can help relieve stress and anxiety It improves your ability to manage your emotions. #psychology

UPS saves an estimated ten million gallons of gasoline every year just by avoiding left turns. #knowledge

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If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. - Golda Meir #quotes

Female penguins sometimes engage in prostitution; performing sex acts in exchange for pebbles However, sometimes the female penguin will just trick the male into THINKING they'll have sex, then run off once she gets the pebble. #animals

​​What is the smallest possible Distance in The Universe? In physics, the Planck length, denoted ℓP, is a unit of length that is the distance light travels in one unit of Planck time. It is also the reduced Compton wavelength of a particle with Planck mass. It is equal to 5.72938×10⁻³⁵ m (Lorentz–Heaviside version) or 1.61623×10⁻³⁵ m (Gaussian version). It is a base unit in the system of Planck units, developed by physicist Max Planck. The Planck length can be defined from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light in a vacuum, the Planck constant, and the gravitational constant. It is the smallest distance about which current, experimentally corroborated, models of physics can make meaningful statements. At such small distances, the conventional laws of macro-physics no longer apply, and even relativistic physics requires special treatment. The smallest possible size for anything in the universe is the Planck Length, which is 1.6 x10 -35 m across. It is impossible to determine the difference between two locations less than one Planck length apart. Accordingly, that is the smallest distance that ever can be measured. Mind you, currently, we have no way of measuring anything even approaching that size. Currently, electron microscopy allows measurement of sizes as small as 50 picometers or 5 x 10 ^-11 meters. That's 10^24 larger than the Planck length, or one septillion times larger (or, one trillion trillions).

NASA's internet connection can reach speeds of up to 91 gigabits per second About 13,000 times faster than the average internet connection. #knowledge

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Addiction is giving up everything for one thing, and recovery is giving up one thing for everything. #thoughts

​​How do Actors/Actresses make themselves cry for a scene? Physically producing genuine tears is one of the most difficult challenges for actors, especially those who perform live on stage. Actors use a variety of ways to elicit tears. Different actors achieve tears in different ways, and the same actor might use one or a combination of methods to achieve tears depending on where they are and what they’re trying to bring to their performance. There is a product called a tear stick or menthol stick. It is a stick of wax packaged in a standard lipstick tube with the key ingredient of menthol — the same thing that creates the cold sensation in cough drops and breath mints. When the actor or makeup artist puts a streak of wax close to the eye, the eyes water, giving the flood of tears the actor can then use as part of the performance. A more complicated device called a tear puffer or tear blower is a small, hand-held cylinder that shoots a single puff of menthol-laden air into the actor's eye. The clear plastic tube is spring-loaded and held in the cocked position until the actor triggers it. The puff creates instant tears in the affected eye. The skills required for this illusion is the ability to hide the device from the camera or audience and to puff both eyes at the same time.

Other people hear a higher version of your voice than you do because you're hearing it resonate through your bones. #science

Just the smell of coffee can have a placebo effect and increase feelings of focus and ambition. #lifehack

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​​​​How does Snickometer Technology work? The cricket Snickometer (known as 'snicko' for short) was invented by English Computer Scientist, Allan Plaskett, in the mid-1990s. Snickometer technology was first used in 1999 by Channel 4 in the UK, before being used in India and Australia. The snickometer is composed of a very sensitive microphone located in one of the stumps, connected to an oscilloscope that measures sound waves. When the ball nicks the bat, the oscilliscope trace will pick up the sounds. At the same time, a high speed camera records the ball passing the bat. The oscilliscope trace is then shown alongside slow motion video of the ball passing the bat, and by the shape of the sound wave you can determine whether of not the noise picked up by the microphone coincides with the ball passing the bat, and whether the sound seems to come from the bat hitting the ball or from some other object. This technology is used in televised cricket matches to graphically show the video of the ball passing the bat at the same time the audio of any sounds at the time. It is only used to give the television audience more information and to show if the ball did or did not actually hit the bat. The umpires does not get the benefit of seeing 'snicko'. As the ball passes the bat, there can be other noises that can be confused with the ball on bat noises. The bat often hits the pads on the way through, making a sound at the same time the ball passes the bat. The sound/sound wave is purpotedly different for bat-pad and bat-ball, but this is not always clear. The shape of the recorded soundwave is the key - a short sharp sound is associated with bat on ball. The bat hitting the pads or the ground produces a flatter sound wave.

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