This week has been filled with lots of new tech innovations,scandolous sex cults and of course a good British thunderstorm. and with that welcome to HEADS-UP, our weekly round up of most intriguing things the team has learnt this week…
- The original Space Jam movie website is still online and hasn’t been updated since 1996 – Lynn
- During WWI Panerai created ‘Dive Watches’ for the Italian Frogmen, an elite diving team and made a luminescent material called Radiomir – made with radium – on the dial… it wasn’t until later that they realised it was 1 million times more radioactive than uranium. – Bill
- One of the biggest featured insight today is about UK interest in the Tour de France – Fannie
- Do you know that every two weeks, another language dies- Laura
- Mark Zuckerberg, the 1st person on Facebook had ID number 4 (the first three Facebook accounts were used for testing). Laurent
- A UN study has found that the world’s population will break through the 8 billion mark in 2023 and there are more men than women. And next year for the first time ever, the number of over 60s will top 1 billion. – Krish
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. – Maïa
- Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence chatbots have been trained to negotiate: that’s how they learnt how to lie – Fabienne.