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15 May 2008
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In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics. He noticed that certain rays caused paper coated with barium platinocyanide to glow, even when the paper was in the next room. Baffled by the mystery, he called them "X Rays".
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Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.
A full-grown male kangaroo is called a boomer.
If emissions of carbon dioxide were halted today, it would take more than a century for the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide to approach its pre-industrial level.
There was a false floor fitted in Adolf Hitler's Mercedes 770K to make him look taller when he stood up in the car.
The more than 1,000 disorders of the brain and nervous system result in more hospitalizations tha any other disease group, including cancer and heart disease. Neurological illnesses affect more than 50 million Americans annually at costs exceeding $400 billion.
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In Denmark, a study of people experiencing 'allergic contact eczema' in response to fragrances revealed that this affected 1-2% of the population.
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It has been estimated that the amount of energy saved by recycling aluminium cans in the U.S. in 1987 was the equivalent of the energy used by residences in New York City over a period of more than six months.
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The Titanic weighed approximately 45,000 tons.
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Dogs are able to see much better in dim light than humans are. This is due to the tapetum lucidum, a light-reflecting layer behind the retina. Because it functions like a mirror, it also accounts for the strange shine or glow in a dog's eyes at night.
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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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The word 'menstruation' comes from the Greek word 'menus', meaning both moon and power, and 'men' meaning month .
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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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Household detergent was first created by Henkel Dusseldorf in 1907. Based on dry soap powder, it was called Persil.
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During the winter on Mars, temperatures plummet to minus 125 degrees centigrade, and the air begins to freeze solid as a veil of 'dry ice'. In a bad winter, a quarter of Mar's atmosphere is frozen.
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