If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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