9th Feb 2026:
The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.
Image: Adobe Stock
8th Feb 2026:
Google Images was launched in July 2001, largely in response to the huge online interest generated by Jennifer Lopez’s iconic green Versace dress at the 2000 Grammys.
The dress went viral, highlighting the demand for an easy way to search for and view images online, which inspired Google to create a dedicated image search tool.
Image: BBC
7th Feb 2026:
Winds on Neptune can blow faster than 1,200 miles an hour.
That’s fast enough to lose your hat in!
The highest wind ever recorded on earth is 253 mph and that was in Australia in 1996.
Image: NASA picture of Mercury
6th Feb 2026
The colour wheel, who did it? The answer is not what you’re expecting.
Sir Isaac Newton proposed the colour wheel, and attributed the 7 colours to the 7 notes on an A-G scale.
Photo is a representation of his original idea of the colour wheel.
5th Feb 2026
Clarinets, the musical instrument, are made almost entirely out of wood from the mpingo tree, also known as African black-wood.
Mpingo is a slow-growing, small tree native to 26 African nations, primarily Tanzania and Mozambique, renowned for producing one of the world’s most valuable, dense, and dark timbers.
4th Feb 2026
In 1907, a woman was arrested on a Boston beach (USA) for wearing a one-piece swimming costume.
3rd Feb 2026: National Women’s Physician Day
In 1865, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first woman in Britain to qualify as a physician and surgeon, exploiting a loophole in the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries’ admissions process and passing her exams at the first attempt.
Barred from hospital posts — including Westminster — she opened her own practice on Euston Road, London, run by women, for women.
A trailblazer in every sense, she went on to become Britain’s first female Mayor, the first female Dean of a medical school, and the first woman to sit on a school board of governors. By 1914, more than 1,000 women were practising as doctors in England — but the fight for equality in medicine was far from over.
Update:
From 2/2/26, posts will be going up around 7pm as that is when analytics say that my website is most active.
TIA
2nd Feb 2026
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the earth. There are approximately 10,000 stars to one grain of sand!
1st Feb 2026
Australia is wider than the moon. The moon has a diameter of 3475km, and Australia is 4000km wide
