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4 Feb 2012
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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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Gone' is one of the most frequent words babies use. Generally, it is not used to denote food having been eaten as many parents suspect, but rather as a general term to denote when something has gone out of view of the baby.
Nor’easters are cyclone-like storms that occur off the east coast of North America and cause snow, rain, and crashing waves on Atlantic beaches.
In 1904, Walter S. Sutton, an American cytologist, decided there might be some connection between Gregor Mendel's 1860s research and the newly discovered chromosomes with their genes.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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It is a myth that heart disease is a man's disease. In fact, cardiovascular diseases are the number one killer of women (and men). These diseases currently claim the lives of more than a half a million females every year - more than the next 16 causes of death put together.
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The distance from the surface of the Earth to its center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 kilometers).
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A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average car.
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Butterflies have taste receptors on their feet.
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The location of the Bermuda Triangle is between 80-90 degrees West and 30-20 degrees North. About 66 planes and ships are supposed to have disappeared mysteriously in this area.
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One trillion seconds ago, Neanderthal man (and woman) walked the earth. The 1,000,000,000,000 seconds since then add up to 31,709 years.
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All the hydrogen atoms in our bodies were created 12 billion years ago in the Big Bang.
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The Rubik's Cube was invented by Erno Rubik in 1974. To date over 100 million have been sold. Dave Orser broke the Unofficial World Record for solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded, with a new record of 4 minutes 5 seconds, including memorization on the 11th December 2002.
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The largest known star (in terms of mass and brightness) is called the Pistol Star. It is believed to be 100 times as massive as our Sun, and 10,000,000 times as bright!
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