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21 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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A conventional sign of virginity in Tudor England was a high exposed bosom and a sleeve full to the wrists.
However, the fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was at Mount Washington in New Hampshire on 12th April 1934. It measured 231 miles per hour (372 kilometres per hour).
A Harvard Nurses Health Study surveyed 85,000 American women with moderate alcohol consumption and found that mortality rate and the risk for breast cancer was decreased.
Mormon church leaders of the nineteenth century, who had to provide a separate establishment for each wife, averaged 5 wives and 25 children.
An elephant herd can move fifty miles in a day.
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Thornfield Hall is the setting for the famous novel Jane Eyre.
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Quartz crystal is one of the birthstones for April.
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Many studies show that heading east is worse than heading west in terms of jet lag.
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According to 'The Farmers Almanac', to test your love, you and your lover should each place an acorn in water. If they swim together , your love is true, if they drift apart, so will you.
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"The mysterious phenomenon of the Min Min lights in the Australian outback may actually be an inverted mirage of light sources which are, in some cases, hundreds of kilometres away over the horizon.
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Between 255 and 250 million years ago more than half the species of animals on Earth, including 75-95 percent of marine species, were permanently extinguished. This mass extinction is the greatest such event found in the fossil record.
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In a rainbow, each raindrop acts as a tiny spherical prism. A rainbow is seen whenever there are enough raindrops distributed properly with respect to the viewer and the sun and there is not too much absorption of the light in the rain.
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The hand-held pocket calculator was invented at Texas Instruments, Incorporated (TI) in 1966 by a development team which included Jerry D. Merryman, James H. Van Tassel and Jack St. Clair Kilby.
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The coolest stars are red. Their surface temperature is less than 5,500°F. This compares to blue stars which are the hottest stars, with a surface temperature of more than 37,000°F
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