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13 Oct 2008
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Each King in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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In 1954 boxers and wrestlers had to swear under oath they were not communists before they could compete in the state of Indiana.
Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 50 that cause, initiate or promote cancer such as tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and benzopyrene.
The biggest planet in the Solar System has the shortest day: giant Jupiter spins round once in only 9 hours 50 minutes.
There is some evidence that religiosity - the ability to feel 'spiritual' - may be inherited.
An elephant can lift an object that weighs up to half a ton (452 kg) with its trunk.
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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.
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The Kilauea volcano on the Island of Hawaii has produced 1.5 cubic kilometres of lava in 16 years.
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The speed of light, Warp Factor 1 on Star Trek's Enterprise is a mind boggling 670,610,000 miles per hour.
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A baby grey whale drinks enough milk to fill more than 2,000 bottles a day.
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In ancient times, menstruation was considered a cosmic event, relating and connecting one to the moon, the lunar cycles and the tides.
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The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
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Radiation can be observed or detected by using Geiger counters, photographic plates, cloud or bubble chambers.
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Four Wheel Roller Skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863.
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We are just as likely to die from an asteroid impact as we are in a plane crash.
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