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".
10
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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According to an assistant professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, wearing red increases your chances in things like dating and hitchhiking.
12
Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.
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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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