Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ailing Americans, amateur axe-wielders, and active agua areas
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., May 14, 2004
Deep vein thrombosis kills 200,000 Americans each year – more than AIDS, breast cancer, and highway accidents combined.
According to DePaul University professor Liam Heneghan, earthworms are actually hurting the soil in many parts of the world. They gobble up and digest leaf litter so quickly that whole populations of microorganisms may be wiped out.
By his own admission, Neil Young had two guitar lessons in 1962.
Zip the Pinhead, born William Henry Johnson (1857-1926), was an American freak show performer famous for his odd shaped head. Not a true microcephalic, he did not suffer the mental retardation associated with microcephalia. His dying words to his sister: "Well, we fooled 'em for a long time!"
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