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7 Nov 2009
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Nostradamus wrote 942 quatrains (4 line long poems) in his lifetime which he organised into centuries. Many people believe that he could predict the future and that these poems contain cryptic information about future events.
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Since there is no wind on the moon, footprints that astronauts make there will remain for millions of years.
Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state and one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Alaska experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake almost every year, and a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake on average every 14 years.
Each year in the US, more than 97 million Americans suffer chronic, debilitating headaches or a bout with a bad back or the pain of arthritis - all at a total cost of some $100 billion.
An estimated 50 percent of US landfill space is taken up by discarded packaging.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
 
 

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Humans
Although the amount of chemicals in each cigarette is small, it is cumulative - the amount stored in the body increases with each puff of a cigarette. There is a little bit of chemical in each cigarette puff, and there are over 10 puffs per cigarette. Over a year, at one pack of cigarettes a day, a smoker will inhale 73,000 puffs of dangerous chemicals.
Earth
Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state and one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Alaska experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake almost every year, and a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake on average every 14 years.
Machines
Five mighty F-1 engines, each producing 680,000kg of thrust, were used to power the Saturn V Rocket used for moon landings,
Nature
Primitive blue-green algae grow in hot springs near Yellowstone's steaming geysers, defying scientific expectations by enduring and thriving in water temperatures as high as 160 degrees F.
Mysteries
Q is the only letter that does not occur in the names of the states of the U.S.
Origins
It was by the molecular clock method that the branching point between chimpanzee and man was shown to be as recent as 5-8 million years ago, rather than 14-16 million years, as had been previously generally accepted.
Big Theories
Oxygen is the most abundant element followed by silicon and then aluminium.
Technology
In 1832 the Scottish surgeon Neil Arnott devised water beds as a way of improving patients comfort.
Space
A transit of Venus is like a solar eclipse, but instead of the Moon being in line between the Earth and Sun it is the planet Venus.
 
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