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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 three brightest stars, Sirius, Canopus and Alpha Centauri are all in the Southern Hemisphere. The Northern Hemisphere contains the next three, Arcturus, Vega and Capella.
Since the turn of the century, 90 tribes of indigenous peoples have been wiped out in Brazil alone. The pace of annihilation is increasing; 26 of those tribes were killed or scattered in the past decade.
"Erin go bragh" means "Ireland forever".
Canada has 10% of the world's forest and is the world's largest exporter of wood products and paper.
There are fewer than ten submersibles in the world that can take you more than a mile beneath the ocean surface.
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Ambassadors to the United Kingdom are not called that officially, but rather Ambassadors to the Court of St. James. The Court of St. James being the palace that was the residence of the monarch before Buckingham Palace was built.
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The term 'tectonic plates' first appeared in a journal article in1968, and the term rapidly replaced 'continental drift'.
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A Boeing 707 plane uses 4000 gallons of fuel during take-off.
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In March 1999, Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, proved that mammals recognize and process odours through a code based on varying combinations of receptors. She likens olfactory receptors to letters of the alphabet, which can be used over and over again to compose a vast vocabulary.
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68% of all UFO sightings are by men.
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The oldest fossilized imprint of the rose was left on a slate deposit found in Florissant, Colorado. It is estimated to be 35 million years old.
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Each carbon nucleus (containing six protons and six neutrons) is made up from three nuclei of helium.
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In the USA there are 813 TV sets per 1000 people - 200 million sets in all. In Mali there is 1 set per 2,500 people.
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The Irish writer Jonathan Swift described the two small moons of Mars with uncanny accuracy in his novel Gulliver's Travels - which was published 150 years before these moons were discovered…
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