"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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You can immediately cool down a car that has been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.
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Since 1982, a radio frequency emanating from Russia has been broadcasting a buzzer-like sound and, periodically, an unknown voice reads orders, names, and numbers. No one knows where exactly it is coming from or what it means.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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Water is actually naturally blue.
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