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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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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‘Qatar’ is the world's most expensive bar of soap. Infused with gold and diamond powder, it costs a squeaky clean $2,800.
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