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20 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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A dragonfly's eye contains 30,000 lenses.
CIn May 1894, Congress enacted a law making buffalo hunting in Yellowstone National Park illegal.
In an experiment by Guy Woodruff and David Premack at the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1980s they demonstrated that chimpanzees can understand fractions.
If you are a man between the ages of about 20 to 45 and you start to loose scalp hair, then the chances are 95 per cent certain that you are experiencing male pattern baldness.
Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
 
 

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Humans
Over 100 years ago, felt hat makers in England used mercury to stabilize wool. Many of them were poisoned by the fumes, which cause erethism, a disorder characterized by nervousness, irritability, and strange personality changes as demonstrated by the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland.
Earth
The Hawaiian Islands are the projecting tops of the biggest mountain range in the world. Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii, is the largest mountain on Earth - though partially submerged, it is 4,000 feet taller than Mount Everest.
Machines
Bavarian immigrant Charles August Fey invented the first three-reel automatic payout slot machine, the liberty bell, in San Francisco in 1899.
Nature
The sting of a Box Jelly can kill a human within three minutes.
Mysteries
Mysterious disappearances have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Sea off the east coast of Japan.
Origins
Edward Drinker Cope, in his rush to beat Othniel Marsh as the collector and publisher of the most dinosaurs, reconstructed one dinosaur so that its head was placed at the end of its tail instead of its rightful place on its neck. Unsympathetic colleagues suggested that it be named "Strepsisaurus" ("twisted lizard").
Big Theories
A bubble is round because the air within it presses equally against all its parts, thus causing all surfaces to be equidistant from its centre.
Technology
The Goltzschtal Railway Bridge in Plauen, Germany was built in 1900 and is the worlds longest stone bridge.
Space
Mars is only half as wide as the Earth and has only about a tenth of its mass.
 
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