The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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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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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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Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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