Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Shifting poles, spirit intake, and more
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., March 12, 2010
Bing Crosby almost became a lawyer. But he began his music career with a set of mail-order drums.
Researchers at Imperial College London have transformed sugars in fast-growing trees and grasses into a polymer that can be used to make plastic. Plastics made from oil can take hundreds of years to decompose, but the new material would break down in a matter of months.
In the early 1800s, men drank an average of 3.7 gallons a year of distilled spirits. By the end of the 1800s, it was an average of 5 gallons a person.
Since 2003, the decline in divorce rates has been mainly in states that have not passed a state constitutional ban on gay marriage.
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