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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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Red sparklers get their overall colour from strontium carbonate.
Americans own 55 million dogs, and 60 million cats.
The male Argus pheasant of Asia has the longest feathers of all the flying birds. Its tails feathers can reach a length of six feet (1.7 metres)
Seventy percent of people sign their pet's name on greeting cards and 58 percent include their pets in family and holiday portraits, according to a survey done by the American Animal Hospital Association.
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
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Table grapes have been around since 4000 BC. Franciscan missionaries introduced table grapes to California in the late 1700's. They may have been introduced to Mexico as early as 1500 by the Spanish conquistadors.
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Macau, China has 80,000 people per square mile. Greenland has 10 square miles per person.
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A jet or turbo-jet powered aircraft uses more fuel flying at 25,000 feet than 30,000 feet. The higher it flies, the thinner the atmosphere and the less atmospheric resistance it must buck.
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/ The Greatest mass extinction in Earth's history was at the end of the Permian age about 251 million years ago.
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Over the last 100 years, investigations of Stonehenge have shown that it was built in several stages from 2800 – 1800 BC.
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Stress fractures in some dinosaur vertebrae may have been caused by the weight load of copulation.
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The speed it takes to escape from the Earth is tiny compared with that of light (300,000 kilometres per second); but it challenges rocket engineers constrained to use chemical fuel, which converts only a billionth of its so-called 'rest-mass energy' into effective power.
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Over 70 years ago John Logie Baird produced a working infrared video system which he called Noctovision and infrared film has been around for about the same time.
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As far as we currently know, the star SGR 1900+14 in Sagittarius, carries the strongest magnetic field in the Universe with an astonishing 100 trillion times Earths.
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