Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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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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A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
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You can start a fire with ice.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
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In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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