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22 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 longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanooconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters, ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioises is plural.
Cloud seeding has been practiced in parts of Texas almost continuously now for over 25 years. A water district in West Texas, the Colorado River Municipal Water District, has used cloud seeding to augment runoff into its reservoirs on the upper Colorado River in virtually every summer since 1971!
The antlers of a moose are created from living tissue supplied by blood through a network of vessels covered with a soft smooth skin called velvet. Eventually the tissue becomes solidified, the velvet is scraped off, and the antlers become completely formed of dead matter.
Smell is a huge factor in human attraction. We tend to be attracted to people who look and smell like our parents.
The World's oldest village was discovered in the parched bed on the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee and dates to the end of the early Stone Age. Archaeologists believe the settlement to be over 20,000 years old.
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Except for domesticated animals, humans are the only creatures on Earth that eat cooked food.
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In Kingsville, Texas, it is against the law for two pigs to have sex on the city's airport property.
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In 1900 there were 50,000 motorised vehicles worldwide. In 2000 there were more than 650 million.
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An African Baobab tree's circumference can reach 180 feet. If the trunk is hollow, 20 people would be able to fit inside of it.
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In the 1800s there were reports of canals on Mars but they have since been discredited.
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It was not until about 600 million years ago that we find fossils that are recognizably animals, plants, or fungi.
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It was Frederick Soddy who coined the term 'isotopes' (which means 'the same place' in Greek) because, by being chemically identical, these previously unknown radioactive substances occupied the same place on the periodic table.
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The first man made object to leave and orbit the Earth was Sputnik 1 which was launched by the USSR in 1957.
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A neutron star is 15 miles across and weighs more than the Sun.
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