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".
10
There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
13
You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
22
A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
170
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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