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"Despre tine" (Romanian for 'About You') is a dance-pop song by the Moldovan band O-Zone, released as a single by Media Services in Romania around December 2002. Written and produced by the band's founder Dan Balan (pictured), it was included on a reissue of their second studio album Number 1 (2002) and later on their third studio album DiscO-Zone (2003). "Despre tine" was recorded in September 2002 at the MOF Records studio with the assistance of Bogdan Popoiag. Following the international success of O-Zone's 2003 single "Dragostea din tei", "Despre tine" was re-released in select European markets in August 2004. At the MTV Romania Music Awards 2003, "Despre tine" won Best Song and Best Dance. It also received a nomination for Best Dance-Pop Song at the Radio România Actualități Awards the same year. It topped the Romanian Top 100 in 2003 and reached number one in Norway in 2004. The song was certified double gold in Romania and gold in France. (Full article...)
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On this day: March 24
March 24: World Tuberculosis Day
- 1882 – German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
- 1900 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck, mayor of New York City, broke ground for a new underground Rapid Transit Railroad that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 1921 – The inaugural Women's Olympiad (cover pictured), the first international women's sports event, opened at the International Sporting Club of Monaco in Monte Carlo.
- 1976 – The Argentine military, led by Jorge Rafael Videla, deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, establishing a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process.
- 2015 – The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft, an Airbus A320, in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board, including himself.
- Georgius Agricola (b. 1494)
- Phan Châu Trinh (d. 1926)
- Peyton Manning (b. 1976)
- Johan Cruyff (d. 2016)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].