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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 motto for the Olympic Games is Citius - Altius - Fortius (Faster - Higher - Stronger).
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About 110,000 million tons of carbon dioxide enter the atmosphere each year as the result of burning fossil fuels. Removing this amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere requires a forested area the size of Australia.
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The fastest truck in the world, the 376 mph rocket powered Shockwave burns 400 gallons of fuel every mile.
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It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.
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A law was made on July 16, 1969 saying that it's illegal for US citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
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Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth.
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It was Galileo who first used a telescope to show that Venus goes through a complete set of phases, just like the moon.
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