Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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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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The best diamonds are colored blue-white.
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Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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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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