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8 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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The vanilla bean is the fruit of a tropical American species of orchid. It is the only orchid which produces anything edible and there are more than 20,000 orchid varieties.
The 1960s pop singer Englebert Humberdinck was born Arnold George Dorsey. He took his stage name from a nineteenth century Austrian composer.
In all of Shakespeare's plays and poetry, excluding Roman numerals, only one word begins with X. The word is XANTHIPPE (the wife of Socrates). It is found in The Taming of the Shrew.
Were it not for HIV/Aids, average life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa would be approximately 62 years. Instead it is about 47 years.
The surface temperature of the Sun is about 5000 degrees centigrade.
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There are two talking animals in the bible. The Serpent (Genesis 3) and Balaam's Ass (Numbers 22)
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The greatest potential for loss of life and property related to a hurricane is from the storm surge - water pushed ashore by the force of the winds accompanying a hurricane.
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A device invented as a primitive steam turbine by the Greek engineer Hero of Alexandria, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.
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Sea sponges are used in drugs for treating asthma and cancer.
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There is no scientific evidence that the Sasquatch (Bigfoot) exists. But for over 70 years, people have been finding and photographing very large tracks, with a similar shape to a human foot, in remote areas of North America.
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Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly.
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The best analogy for chaos theory is white water on a rapidly flowing section of a mountain stream. If you set two leaves in motion next to each other on the upstream side of the white water, they will most likely be widely separated by the time they reach the downstream side.
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A New York Cable Company has come up with an innovative way to get customers to pay overdue bills. Rather then cutting off the service, they have instead started to fill all 77 channels with live coverage of the US Congress. They have found that more people pay up using this approach then simply stopping the service.
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A sunbeam setting out through space at the rate of 186,000 miles a second would describe a gigantic circle and return to its origins after about 200 billion years.
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