Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.

The phrase "Keep your eyes on the stars, and keep your feet on the ground," was coined by Theodore Roosevelt.

10021 is the wealthiest ZIP code in the U.S. It also has the dubious distinction of being the area in which the highest number of 9/11 victims lived.

According to one Australian researcher at Charles Stuart University, most cows would rather go hungry than eat pasture contaminated with dung. Depending on weather conditions and the number of dung beetles, cow dung takes between a week and a month to break down.

Fruit cobbler is known as "grunt" or "slump" in New England.

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