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Keyboards
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Qwerty keyboards were created to slow down the typing (and to split apart the letters often used consecutively).
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Save our souls!
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The famous distress signal SOS (· · · — — — · · · in morse code) does not mean anything! For sure, it has no link with Save our souls which is a backronym.
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Nobel is no cuckold
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The famous anecdote that explains the absence of a Nobel prize in mathematics by the fact that Alfred Nobel’s wife cheated on him with some mathematician is false!
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Great Wall from space
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It’s usually said that the Great Wall of China is “the only human building that can be seen from space”...actually it’s false.
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Super Size Mich
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The famous Hamburger sandwich comes from Hamburg.
The Hot-Dog comes from Frankfurt (name before americanization: Frankfurter)
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