The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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