10 Facts

10 Facts about BBC: 1. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, and is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total number is 35,402. 2. BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation’s headquarters during the 1960s and 70s and Play School presenters even went on-air stoned. 3. Britons have to pay $230 for a “television license” every year as a tax to support the BBC 4. British nuclear submarines have orders to launch nuclear missiles if they cannot tune into BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ program for a number of consecutive days.  5. Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd which sells BBC programmes an...

Petrol and Diesel vehicles up more than 98% of the cars in The UK, with the 2% being electric cars. As electric cars are getting more efficient and the becoming cheaper, the market place has been steadily increasing. The UK government seems to support this change by banning petrol or diesel based cars by 2040. This not only encourages new potential car buyers to buy an electric car, it also encourages manufacturers to put more focus into producing more cheaper and better electric cars. Why the Change? The UK government is in an effort to control air pollution. Petrol or Diesel based cars produce a lot of toxins and harmful gases as exhaust. With the increase in  car  sales, the atmospheric pollution is only bound to get worse over time. What are these harmful gases released into the air by petrol and diesel cars? Conventional cars exhaust various types of gases such as, Nitrogen oxides Carbon monoxide Sulfur dioxide etc. These gases are extremely hazardous, a...