Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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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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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.
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