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22 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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While the retina of frogs can detect movement, the retina of humans and other primates cannot.
In a matter of about 10 to the minus 32 seconds the universe went from something smaller than a single proton to something the size of a grapefruit - an increase in size of 50 orders of magnitude. In comparison, the volume of water increases by only about 10% when it freezes.
A conifer grows male and female cones.
The more massive the celestial body, the greater the escape velocity for a space vehicle in order to obtain orbit . For instance, the escape velocity on the Moon is only about 3000 mph; for the planet Mercury, about 7900 mph; for Mars, about 11,000 mph; and for giant Jupiter, a whopping 133,000 mph.
The game of chess dates back 4000 years, to an ancient Indian board game called Chaturanga. The name means 'army': in front of the king were the infantry (pawns), cavalry (knights), chariots (rooks) and elephants (now known as bishops).
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Barbie's measurements if she were life size - 39-23-33
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When Canadian scientists flew onto the sea ice to locate the magnetic north pole in 2001, they found it at latitude 81.3° north and longitude 110.8° west, about 155 miles north of Ellef Ringnes Island.
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A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess in 1930.
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Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
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In 1740 a cow was found guilty of sorcery in France and publicly hanged.
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Stress fractures in some dinosaur vertebrae may have been caused by the weight load of copulation.
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If you flip a coin ten times in a row, the odds are 1024 to 1 against getting all heads.
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In the 1950's, Swiss professor Hans Laube invented Smell-O-Vision, a machine installed in movie theatres that emitted puffs of specific odours in synchronisation with the action on the screen. But a disgusting cocktail of apples, garlic, gun smoke and cheese lingered in the cinema.
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Go figure... When people run around and around in circles we say they are 'crazy'. When planets do it we say they are 'orbiting'.
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