"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
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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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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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Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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