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9 Mar 2010
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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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If more than 23 people gather in a room there is a better than 1 in 2 chance that at least two of them will share the same birthday.
There is enough iron solidifying from the molten fluid in the centre of the Earth to re-lay the railways from London to Edinburgh every minute.
Enzymes are natural catalysts that increase the rate of chemical reactions. Perhaps the most popular example is found in the brewing industry in which sugars are converted into ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide by the action of enzymes secreted by yeast cells.
In humans, most multiple births involve twins - about once in every eighty-nine births. By contrast, triplets naturally occur about once in every 7900 births and quadruplets about once in every 705,000 births.
The chances of your being killed by a bee, wasp or hornet sting stand in the region of one in 125,000.
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For every person murdered today, it is thought that ten were murdered in the Middle Ages. The murder rate has halved in the past two hundred years.
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International weather data shows that 2005 was the warmest year ever in the Northern Hemisphere and the second warmest year worldwide. Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are about 0.4°C higher than a decade ago.
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In June 1999 37% of all flights in Europe were late.
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The body of a chameleon is about 6 or 7 inches long, but its tongue is many inches longer than its body.
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Currently, several "scientific" versions of dowsing rods which purportedly contain actual electronic circuitry, are being sold to government agencies in the USA for very high prices, as much as $14,000.
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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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X-ray quanta has energies which are more than 10,000 times larger than those of light.
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Before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1438, there were only about 30,000 books throughout the whole of Europe, nearly all Bibles or biblical commentary.
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Budweiser beer is named after a Czech town.
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