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9 Feb 2010
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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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Thirty years ago, Tanzania had a population of some 10,000 chimps. Today less than a quarter of these survive in isolated pockets.
Oysters can change gender - usually starting off as male and becoming female as they get older.
There are roughly 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
In Michigan, USA, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.
Roy Sullivan of Virginia, USA, was struck by lightning seven times during his lifetime. Later he committed suicide.
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Jimmy Carter was the first US President born in a hospital.
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Orkney was first written about by the Greek explorer Pytheas who circumnavigated the islands in 224BC and claimed to have seen the edge of the world, "Ultima Thule" (which was probably Foula in Shetland).
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The world's largest wind generator is on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. The windmill has two blades 400 feet long on the top of a tower twenty stories high.
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To make one glass of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough oranges to make the juice.
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In May 2001 an unidentified skull was found in Rodopi Mountain, Bulgaria. It has the size of a baby's head and it weights about 250 grams. A disk-shaped smooth metal object was found nearby the skull too. Some people think that the alloy it was made of cannot be composed on the Earth. Scientists explored the skull and no one was unable to identify it.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
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H2O expands as it freezes and contracts as it melts, displacing the exact same amount of fluid in either state. So if the northern ice cap did melt, it would cause absolutely no rise is the level of the ocean.
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On Friday, May 30, 2003, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Project produced 10.4 kilojoules (kJ) of ultraviolet laser light in a single laser beamline, setting a world record for laser performance. The NIF Project in Livermore, California is the largest laser in the world.
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It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.
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