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7 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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When a tsunami is generated offshore the wave will behave as a shallow water wave. A shallow water wave is one that travels through water having a depth less than 1/20 of its wavelength.
More than 20% of adults in the UK are defined as functionally illiterate, which places the UK - together with Ireland - at the bottom of the literacy league within developed countries.
It has been known since the work of Jan Ingenhousz in 1779 that sunlit green plants absorb carbon dioxide.
In Scandinavia, 16,000 out of 85,000 Swedish lakes are said to have become acidified due to acid rain.
Although the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, it wasn't until a year later that the wall had been completely removed; apart from six sections which have been kept in place as a permanent memorial to the past.
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More popcorn is sold in Dallas than anywhere else in the United States.
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A "pogonip" is a heavy winter fog containing ice crystals.
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The speed of light, Warp Factor 1 on Star Trek's Enterprise is a mind boggling 670,610,000 miles per hour.
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Orchid seeds are so small that it would take about 30,000 of them to weigh as much as a grain of wheat.
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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.
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Between 255 and 250 million years ago more than half the species of animals on Earth, including 75-95 percent of marine species, were permanently extinguished. This mass extinction is the greatest such event found in the fossil record.
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A whip does not make a cracking sound because it hits something... it does because the tip of the whip is travelling faster than the speed of sound (760 miles per hour).
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French Physicist Georges Claude displayed a neon light for the first time at the Paris Motor Show in 1910. It could only produce a red glow.
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French astronomer Adrien Auzout once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great he would see animals on the moon.
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