Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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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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Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
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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.
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