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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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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