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13 Oct 2008
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Each King in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
It is estimated that 5-10% of the global HIV infections are caused by unsafe blood and blood products.
Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
On the day the 1948 Olympic games began at Wembley Stadium in London, June 29th, the famed Australian ‘Invincibles’ cricket side was finishing off England in a test at nearby Lord’s, winning by 409 runs.
The shell of the red abalone, a mollusk found off the coast of California, is formed by slowly adding layers of calcium carbonate, each one-thousandth the thickness of a strand of human hair.
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Tabasco sauce is made by fermenting vinegar and hot peppers in a French oak barrel which has three inches of salt on top and is aged for three years until all the salt is diffused through the barrel.
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The very summit of Mount Everest is about the size of a snooker table.
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The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16th, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships.
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Green plants are the basis for all life on our planet, at the beginning of nearly all food chains. They convert the energy that falls on them in the form of sunlight into energy stored in carbohydrates, most importantly the six-carbon sugar known as glucose.
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A law was made on July 16, 1969 saying that it's illegal for US citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
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In 1912, the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) noted similarities in fossils collected in the two continents, combined this with geophysical data, and postulated the theory of 'continental drift'.
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The best electrical conductors are short, fat, cold wires.
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A reprint of William Henry Fox Talbot's 'The Pencil Of Nature' was produced to mark the 150th anniversary of the invention of photography. It was the first publicly available book illustrated with photographs.
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We are just as likely to die from an asteroid impact as we are in a plane crash.
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