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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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One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
59 Nations participated in the 1948 London Olympics. Of these, 37 won at least one medal.
Michael J Kasperbauer, a plant physiologist with the US Department of Agriculture, has spent more than 30 years studying how plants sense light. He has found that plants that grow surrounded by red sheeting 'sensed' the increased 'far red' light and grew more quickly than plants surrounded by black sheeting. This led to yields increasing 20 to 50 per cent.
The first spacecraft to visit Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962. It was subsequently visited by many others (more than 20 in all). Including Pioneer Venus and the Soviet Venera 7 - the first spacecraft to land on another planet - and Venera 9 which returned the first photographs of the surface.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
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85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
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The United States recycles 25 percent of its annual 180 million tons of household rubbish.
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There are fewer than ten submersibles in the world that can take you more than a mile beneath the ocean surface.
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The basenji, an African wolf dog, is the only dog that cannot bark.
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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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Between 1895 and 1905, the millionaire Andrew Carnegie spent 25 million dollars on fossil collecting trips in the USA.
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Each snowflake is made up of from 2 to about 200 separate crystals.
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Atomic Time replaced Earth Time as the world's official scientific time standard in 1972.
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When it is finally finished in about 2006, the International Space Station will weigh 453,592 kg (about 1,000,000 lb); have an operating altitude of about 240 miles (385 km) and have the same atmospheric pressure inside as Earth i.e. 14.7 lb/inch squared or 1,013 mbars. It will also have a crew size of 7.
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