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4 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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In 1964 a Harris poll found that 15 per cent of US adults were dieting. By 1992, 70 per cent of women and 50 per cent of men were dieters, as were 80 per cent of seventh-grade girls. The dieting rate for British fifteen-year-olds is 68 per cent.
The first leap second was added on June 30, 1972, they occur at a rate of slightly less than one per year, on average.
People in the United States eat about 800,000,000 pounds of peanut butter each year.
Russia built over 10,000 miles of railroad between 1896 and 1900.
According to a study by Professor Alexander Kira of Cornell University, women take 2.3 times as long as men to go to the toilet on average.
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Tax was first imposed on whisky by the Scots Parliament in 1644.
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The Richter Scale is not an instrument. It is a measure of the amplitude of seismic waves and is related to the amount of energy released. This can be estimated from the recordings of an earthquake on a seismograph.
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When officials in one city sought champagne in 1927 to welcome aviator Charles Lindbergh back after his historic transatlantic flight, they were told by a tavern keeper that the sale would be illegal unless medicinal or religious need was shown. After securing vouchers provided by several churches, police officers returned a little later for the champagne.
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Racehorses have been known to wear out new shoes in just one race.
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Fata Morgana mirages are caused by a temperature inversion, where cold dense air is trapped next to the ground under a layer of warmer air.
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To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches; less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair.
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The insecticide DDT was discovered in 1939 by the Swiss chemist Paul Muller while working for the J.R Geigy company.
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From 1952–6, Kent made cigarette filters out of asbestos. They called these filters the “Kent Micronite Filter.”
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The largest crater on the planet Mercury is called Caloris Planitia.
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