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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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Charles Dickens was an insomniac, who believed his best chance of sleeping was in the centre of a bed facing directly north.
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One in every ten people in the world live on an island.
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The first practical helicopter was the German Focke-Wulf FW61 in 1936.
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A whale's heart beats only nine times a minute.
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The location of the Bermuda Triangle is between 80-90 degrees West and 30-20 degrees North. About 66 planes and ships are supposed to have disappeared mysteriously in this area.
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The smallest dinosaurs were just slightly larger than a chicken. Compsognathus is one of the smallest and was about 1 m (3 feet) long and weighed about 2.5 kg.
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"CS Gas" a type of tear gas is not actually a gas. It is spread as a fine dust or liquid droplets in the air. CS was first isolated by Carson and Soughton, two American chemists who gave their initials to the discovery, but it was converted into an effective riot control agent by the British Porton Down Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment in 1956.
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Thomas Edison invented the talking doll in 1888.
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Io, one of Jupiter's moons, is the most volcanically active place in the Solar System.
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