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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 next transit is on June 6, 2012 and will be visible from northwestern North America, northern Asia, Japan, Korea, eastern China, Philippines, eastern Australia, and New Zealand, according to NASA. Portions of the 2012 event will be visible in parts of North America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Ancient Romans believed that birds mated on 14th February.
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent US Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 3 to 5 percent of the general population has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is characterized by agitated behavior and an inability to focus on tasks.
As a construction material, wood is 4 times more efficient as an insulator than an equivalent thickness of cinder block, 6 times more efficient than brick, 15 times more efficient than concrete, 306 times more efficient than steel, and 1,770 times more efficient than aluminum.
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Daily about ten billion tiny scales of skin rub off your body, float through the air and land on the floor, furniture, lawn or other people.
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Other than the hydrogen and oxygen that make up the water molecules, the most plentiful element in seawater is chlorine.
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Shampoo was first marketed in the US in 1930 by John Breck, who was the captain of a volunteer fire department.
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The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.
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Beer foam will go down if you lick your finger then stick it in the beer.
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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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If done perfectly, any Rubik's cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
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More than 15,000 people were saved by life saving 'rope-rockets' at sea between 1871 and 1962.
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The atmosphere on Venus contains sulphuric acid.
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