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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There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
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