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21 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 rate of manufacture of sperm in a man's testes is about 300 million a day during the years of peak production between the ages of twenty and thirty.
Dr Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, 'His name is Mudd'.
The 'standard metre' is defined as 'the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second'. A very stable helium-neon laser kept at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington is used to provide the light source for the UK's standard metre.
A hurricane has a calm 'eye' in the centre, because no matter how strong the rotating winds are around the centre, there must always be a point where there is no wind at all. That point, and a circular region around it, is the eye.
In the height of the punk era, Bob Geldof wrote the song 'I Don't Like Mondays' after reading about a young woman named Brenda who shot her children because, she claimed, 'I Don't Like Mondays'.
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As you age your body hair tends to get thicker and stronger whilst scalp hair falls off.
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The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. It comprises 1.25 million acres and was the first ranch in the world to be completely fenced in.
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100 calories will propel a bicycle 3 miles and drive a car 280 feet.
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Great Whites can swim at up to 25 mph. They must swim continually or they would sink, as they don't have a swim bladder to keep them afloat like a bony fish.
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There have been a number of documented instances of incapacitated (or dead) people who burned up when their clothing was set on fire by some heat source or open flame - with little or no damage around the person.
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In 1842 the British anatomist Richard Owen coined the term 'dinosaur' ('terrible lizard') and its scientific category 'Dinosauria' to distinguish recently discovered fossils of the giant reptiles Iguanodon and Megalosaurus from known living reptiles.
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The earliest attempt to organize pure substances according to chemical (and physical) properties was the table of affinities developed in 1718 by Etienne-Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731).
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On June 16th 2001 a search on Google.com for the phrase 'Internet Architecture' brought up 1,660,000 results. The same search on June 16th 2002 brought up 2,280,000 results.
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A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor.
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