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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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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