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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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Garlic attracts leeches even though quite small doses can prove to be fatal.
The Andromeda galaxy is the furthest object that can be seen without a telescope.
If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toes.
A very common wound in rodeo riding is 'rodeo thumb', which occurs when the thumb gets caught between the saddle and the lasso rope. When the rope is pulled taut the thumb is crushed and sometimes torn off.
The element with the highest melting point is carbon – at 3,500 C (6300 F).
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The average human brain consumes just 12 Watts of power - one-tenth of what it takes to burn an ordinary light bulb.
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Micro-organisms have been found flourishing in rocks more than 4000 metres below the Earth’s surface.
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A bicycle headlight mostly allows others to see you. However, some of the brighter lights do aid night time vision. Most lights range in wattage from 2.4 to 20. Police-department bikes in the United States use a minimum of 15 watts.
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There are about 15,000 Christmas tree growers in the U.S., and over 100,000 people employed full or part time in the industry.
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Paranormal researchers call the study of the crop circle phenomena 'cerealogy'.
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DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
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It was not until 1802 that Harvard College required knowledge of arithmetic for admission.
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Webhosting.info have estimated that the United States has over 22,000 web hosting companies and over 25 million domain names!
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The plot of Thomas Hardy's 1883 novel "Two on a Tower" incorporates a transit of Venus. Hardy himself visited the Royal Greenwich Observatory prior to the 1882 transit of Venus. The English astronomer Jermiah Horrocks, who first saw a transit of Venus, is the basis for one of the characters.
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