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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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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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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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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