"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.
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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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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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