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7 Nov 2009

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

Ts'ai Lin, a eunuch in the court of the Emperor Ho Ti, is credited with the creation of a paper made from the bark of the mulberry tree which was combined with bamboo fibres, hemp and flax around 105AD.

In 1958 the disposable version of the Biro - the Bic - was invented by Marcel Bich.

A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.

A chest x-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts.

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