You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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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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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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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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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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Since 1982, a radio frequency emanating from Russia has been broadcasting a buzzer-like sound and, periodically, an unknown voice reads orders, names, and numbers. No one knows where exactly it is coming from or what it means.
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