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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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Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
Maxwell House, is named after the hotel in Nashville Tennessee, where the original blend was served in 1886.
Monkeys have a very visual means of communicating and convey a lot through posture and facial expressions.
Robert Moog created the first playable music synthesizer which was displayed at a conference in 1964. It took hours to set it up to play a new sound.
In Winter the Antarctic Ice covers 10% of our planet.
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Americans gain an average of eight pounds between Thanksgiving and New Years.
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Four-fifths of the wood harvested in developing countries, and 55% of all wood harvested in the world, is consumed as fuel. Wood is the principal energy source for cooking and heating for almost half of the world's population.
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Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896), a German inventor, made about 2,000 flights in gliders he had designed and built by himself. He died following a glider crash.
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Polar bears need to conserve fat and can consume up to 100 pounds of fat in a sitting.
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Paranormal researchers call the study of the crop circle phenomena 'cerealogy'.
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Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
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Pure titanium is about as strong as steel yet nearly 50% lighter. When added to various alloys, its hardness, toughness and tensile strength can be increased dramatically.
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'Windows 2000' contained 29 million lines of code.
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One day on the planet Venus is equivalent to 243 days on Earth.
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