Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Runaways, lobbyists, philosophers, and Pablo Picasso

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
At least one in every eight adults in America ran away from home for more than a day as children, according to the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University.

Indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay are big opera fans.

Novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand was a big fan of the detective fiction of Mickey Spillane, especially the Mike Hammer character.

According to a study published by the Royal Economic Society, the less students use computers at school and at home, the better they do in international tests of literacy and math.

Pablo Picasso loved the Chicago White Sox.
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