"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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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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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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