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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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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