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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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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Tae Kwon Do is only around 60 years old.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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