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4 Feb 2012
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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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On the 15 January 1867, there was a severe frost in London, and over 40 people died in Regent's Park when the ice broke on the main lake.
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Radiation from the Big Bang was first detected in 1964 in Bell Telephone Labs in New Jersey.
Enrico Caruso became the world's first opera star to sell a million records with his 1904 recording of the aria Vesti la gubbia, from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis, a severe diarrhoeal disease occurred in April 1993 in Milwaukee, USA. Untreated water from a spring contaminated the local drinking water, 370000 became ill, 4400 had to go to hospital and 40 people died.
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Julius Caesar established the leap year as part of his Julian calendar in 45 B.C.
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The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
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A robot-camera named Jason was involved in the discovery and exploration of the Titanic shipwreck in 1986.
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The major ingredient of skunk scent is (E)-2-butene-1-thiol, which the human nose can detect at a concentration of only 10 parts per billion. At very high concentrations, this chemical is lethal.
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For the past 200 years, some people have been searching for a buried treasure on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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The oldest fossilized imprint of the rose was left on a slate deposit found in Florissant, Colorado. It is estimated to be 35 million years old.
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The first standardised system of measurement was created around 2700BC in Mesopotamia.
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From 1952–6, Kent made cigarette filters out of asbestos. They called these filters the “Kent Micronite Filter.”
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The nucleus of Comet Halley is approximately 16x8x8 kilometers. Contrary to prior expectations, Halley's nucleus is very dark: its albedo is only about 0.03 making it darker than coal and one of the darkest objects in the solar system.
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