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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
For Mother's Day: You can tell whether or not a woman has ever had a baby by the shape of her belly button.

In poker, the chance of dealing five cards from a fresh, shuffled deck and getting nothing is 50.157%. The chance of getting a pair is 42.2569%.

We often feel both gratitude and resentment toward those who force us down the path of growth.

Nose fungus is common in Houston. Lives off the mucus.

Feringhee (also feringhi, farangi) was a derogatory term used by Indians against the British long before Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Maquis was a French resistance group in World War II. Jean Picard was a 17th-century astronomer.

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