On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
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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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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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