Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
John Wayne dies and dies again, and regression on the gas-mileage front
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Sept. 1, 2006
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If laid end to end, the Hershey's chocolate bars produced in one year would circle the earth 2 1/2 times.
John Wayne dies in seven films: Reap the Wild Wind, The Fighting Seabees, Wake of the Red Witch, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Alamo, The Cowboys, and The Shootist. In a little-known and seldom-seen film from 1931 called The Deceiver, Wayne actually played a corpse.A June 2006 report released by the Children's Defense Fund finds that more children and teens died as a result of gun violence in 2003 than American fighting men and women killed in the first three years of the Iraq war combined.
Ford's Model T got 25 miles per gallon, and today a Ford Explorer gets 18 miles per gallon.