Mister Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., July 18, 1997
The Statue of Liberty stood in Paris for two years before it was shipped to the U.S. Originally intended to be a lighthouse, it has enough copper sheeting to make 30 million pennies. The seven spikes jutting out of the crown stand for the seven seas and continents.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
A new generation of computer chips made out of sapphire could lead the way to satellite mobile phones the size of wristwatches by the year 2000 and greatly improve computer performance. Peregrine Semiconductor of San Diego developed the new chip.
Yogi Berra allegedly liked to have bedtime stories read to him on the road.
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