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 many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
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Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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