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8 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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In Tibet there's a courting custom called t'lao mao hui. A man steals the hat of a woman he fancies, and if she likes him, she visits him to get it back.
The first mass-marketed camera, Kodak's Brownie, was sold for $1 in February 1900 and was so named to appeal to children because it was so easy to use.
Following almost any sizable earthquake, there is a train of many lesser earthquakes.
SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It is the science of using telescopes, radio and optical, to search the skies for signals from alien civilizations.
33 year old writer Erik Weihenmayer, if Colorado, was the first blind person to climb Mount Everest.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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When the Chilean earthquake occurred in 1960, seismographs recorded seismic waves that travelled all around the Earth. These seismic waves shook the entire earth for many days! This phenomenon is called the free oscillation of the Earth.
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A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.
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During Winter, a buffalo uses its massive head as a slowplow to clear a path in search of buried plants.
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Paranormal researchers call the study of the crop circle phenomena 'cerealogy'.
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After two arduous years of research in the steamy Amazon jungle, English biologist Alfred Russel Wallace devised the theory of evolution before Charles Darwin. But Wallace's crucial evidence disappeared when the ship he was taking back to England in 1852 caught fire and sank.
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On December 2nd 1942, a nuclear chain reaction was achieved for the first time under the stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. Although the same process led to the massive energy release of the atomic bomb, the first reaction produced just enough energy to light a small flashlight.
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The 798 foot high (243m) city hall in Tokyo was modelled on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
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The earth rotates on its axis a full 360 degrees in 24 hours. Therefore, the sun appears to move at a rate of 15 degrees per hour and local time varies from place to place as one moves east or west. An international system of 24 time zones was established in 1884 to avoid the inconvenience of numerous differences in local times.
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