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5 Jul 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 eight-dollar bill was designed and printed by Benjamin Franklin for the American Colonies.
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In 1714, the Mayor of Amsterdam gave a young coffee plant to King Louis XIV of France. It was planted in the Royal Botanical Garden in Paris where, in 1723, a young naval officer obtained a seedling and transported it to Martinique. It later became the stock from which coffee trees throughout the Caribbean, South and Central America originated.
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Australia's highest mountain is named for Thaddeus Kosciusko, the Polish general who fought in the American Revolution.
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The first coin minted in the United States was a silver dollar. It was issued on October 15th 1794.
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Salicornia is one of few vegetables that thrives in saltwater.
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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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The discover of oxygen was Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) in 1774.
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The surface of Mars is the same area as the Earth's continents.
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Stars twinkle because the light we see coming from the stars travels through the atmosphere around the earth and there is turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
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