When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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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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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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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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