There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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American car horns beep in the tone of F.
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Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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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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There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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