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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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There are no irregular verbs in Esperanto.
The bulldozer was first introduced in 1923 by the American Caterpillar Tractor company. Their first job was building Autobahns on Germany.
Between 1895 and 1905, the millionaire Andrew Carnegie spent 25 million dollars on fossil collecting trips in the USA.
In 1997 the US Department of Education released the Riley report which found that 83% of high school students who took algebra and geometry courses went on to college, more than double the rate (36%) of students who did not take these courses.
Captain Cook’s first voyage around the world was planned so that the 1769 Transit of Venus could be observed in Tahiti. For the same transit, King George III had an observatory specially built so that he could conveniently view the event near London.
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One pound of fat supplies the energy to walk nearly 30 miles.
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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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The first coin minted in the United States was a silver dollar. It was issued on October 15th 1794.
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The Giant Squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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Variations in colour in pearls are still a mystery, but some experts believe that high water temperatures contribute a golden cast to some pearls.
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The Babylonians lived in Mesopotamia, a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They developed an abstract form of writing based on cuneiform (wedge-shaped) symbols. Their symbols were written on wet clay tablets which were baked in the sun; many thousands of these tablets have survived to this day.
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The Keck telescope in Hawaii can gather forty thousand times as much light as the telescope that Galileo used.
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The world's largest tea cup is located inside the Toki city JR station near the ticket gate. This tea cup (one piece in a set of three) was crafted in1985. Made from about one ton of clay, these three pieces took 5 months to complete.
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The Sun has been burning hydrogen for about 5 billion years, and has enough hydrogen reserves in its core to keep on doing so for another 5.5 billion years or so.
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