Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

According to a joint study by the Universidad de Costa Rica and the University of California, Berkeley, the poorest Americans die younger than the poorest Costa Ricans.

The "dead air" gap – known today by the architectural term "bee space," is the crawl space needed by a bee to pass easily between two structures. If larger than 1 cm, bees will build a comb; if smaller, they will fill it with propolis (bee glue).

"Jumbo" Brown, a 255-lb. pitcher for N.Y. Yankees in 1933, sent two of his teammates to the hospital when he injured them playing leap frog.

John Wayne liked to play chess and was a top player.

A British study called "One False Move" found that the average 8-year-old saw his/her "home habitat" shrink to 1/9 of its size within a single generation. In 1970, 80% of British kids 7 or 8 years of age went to school unsupervised; by 1990, this figure had dropped below 10%.

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