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5 Jul 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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The coldest place in Britain is Braemar in the Grampians in Scotland. With temperatures as low as -27 centigrade and on average only 6.3 centigrade.
The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart at Stanford University in 1963 but it was not until 1984 that his invention was popularised by the launch of the Apple Macintosh Computer. Engelbart also pioneered the concept of using 'windows' in computing, which led to modern operating systems such as those developed by Microsoft.
A typical PC would have to be a million times more powerful to perform like the human brain.
The north magnetic pole, first located (1831) by English explorer Sir James C. Ross, is now about 78°N and 104°W in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of northern Canada.
The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.
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