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9 Feb 2010
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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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Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
One trillion seconds ago, Neanderthal man (and woman) walked the earth. The 1,000,000,000,000 seconds since then add up to 31,709 years.
The earth rotates on its axis a full 360 degrees in 24 hours. Therefore, the sun appears to move at a rate of 15 degrees per hour and local time varies from place to place as one moves east or west. An international system of 24 time zones was established in 1884 to avoid the inconvenience of numerous differences in local times.
NASA, at its creation in 1958, was directed to study atmospheric as well as space phenomena. In addition, in the 1970s, NASA was mandated to monitor the status of the stratospheric ozone layer.
Prosimians communicate primarily by leaving scent marks.
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'Mull of Kintyre' by Wings was the first record to sell over two million copies just in the United Kingdom and held the record as the biggest seller until 1984.
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Fog, quite simply, is a cloud hugging the ground, and like a cloud, its dense blanket is made of tiny droplets of water so small that it would take 7000 million of them to make a single tablespoonful of water.
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The Boeing 767 aircraft is a collection of 3.1 million parts from 800 different suppliers around the world: fuselage parts from Japan, centre wing selection from Southern California, and flaps from Italy.
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A baby platypus remains blind after birth for 11 weeks.
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There have been a number of documented instances of incapacitated (or dead) people who burned up when their clothing was set on fire by some heat source or open flame - with little or no damage around the person.
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After two arduous years of research in the steamy Amazon jungle, English biologist Alfred Russel Wallace devised the theory of evolution before Charles Darwin. But Wallace's crucial evidence disappeared when the ship he was taking back to England in 1852 caught fire and sank.
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Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
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Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometres long, has six strummable strings.
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There are now more than 4000 satellites orbiting the globe.
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