Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Tides vary as much as 30 to 50 feet in Nova Scotia.

Mathematician Karl Gauss had six fingers on one hand.

Ricoh is developing a machine that removes toner from laserprints and photo copies so that people can recycle paper themselves.

In 1913, socialite Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish threw a party at which the high society guests had to speak in baby talk.

According to the American Life League, an anti-abortion group based in Stafford, Va., Disney's The Lion King contains a scene in which Simba raises dust clouds that spell out the word "sex."

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