Mr. Smarty Pants

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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
To keep cool, flamingos will poop on themselves.

Among the questionable "tributes" by crazed fans of lounge singer Harvey Sid Fisher, whose Astrology Songs Video is an underground cult classic, is the dog treat "Bully Bull Bull." The chew toy is named after Fisher's song for Tauruses and is made from the anatomical part of the bull that differentiates it from the cow.

Some topsoil in South Carolina smells like pepper.

Legend had it that while struggling with bulimia, Princess Diana would binge on large bowls of Sugar Frosted Flakes with heavy cream.

The Washington National Cathedral has two pop-culture gargoyles: a Darth Vader head and a hippie with a bag of pot.

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