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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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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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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Researchers say that lining the toilet seat with paper is pretty much pointless
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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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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