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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 only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
$1,000,000 in $1 bills would weigh approximately one ton. Placed in a pile it would be 360 feet (110m) high - as tall as 60 average adults standing on top of each other.
About 14 million units of blood are donated in the United States each year by approximately eight million volunteer blood donors.
A honey bee flies at about 15 miles per hour.
When the Human Genome Project began in 1990, scientists had discovered fewer than 100 human disease genes. Today, more than 1,400 disease genes have been identified.
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Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the centre of thought.
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A single lightning bolt can unleash 1 million volts of electricity.
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An aircraft carrier travels about 6 inches on one gallon of fuel.
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An elephant’s tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
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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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Dinosaurs existed on the Earth for over 100 million years.
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Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
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The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines Terminal Building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.
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The Cassini Huygens mission to Saturn was launched from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 15, 1997.
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