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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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An outbreak of Smallpox during the time of Mark Anthony (Marcus Aurelius Antonine - 61 - 30 B.C) wreaked havoc on the Roman Empire killing between 3.5 million and seven million people.
68% of all UFO sightings are by men.
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.
People have been trying to deal with the common cold for the past 3000 years.
In 1926, Robert Goddard's first rocket reached a height of 40 feet.
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In 1981, a tornado lifted a baby from its pram in the Italian City of Ancona. The baby was carried about fifty feet into the air and set down safely 300 feet away - without waking.
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The pressure in the centre of the Earth is three million atmospheres and the temperature is 6,000 centigrade.
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The first person to fly across the Pacific Ocean in 1928 in a plane called the 'Southern Cross' was Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.
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Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
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Archaeologists and pathologists are still pondering how the body of Lady Dai, the wife of a Chinese ruler who died between 145 and 178 BC, was so well preserved.
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The word 'menstruation' comes from the Greek word 'menus', meaning both moon and power, and 'men' meaning month .
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Statistically, for a coin to fall heads 50 consecutive times it would take a million men tossing coins 10 times a minute and 40 hours a week - and then it would only happen once every 9 centuries!
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Four Wheel Roller Skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863.
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The most common type of halo is caused by light passing through a shower of very small crystals which float in space with random orientations. These form a ring around the sun (or moon) at a distance of 22 degrees from the light source.
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