30 years ago, you could buy a lifetime, unlimited first-class travel pass with American Airlines for $250,000.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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