Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
While sleeping, an adult weighing 150 pounds burns up about 80 kcal an hour.

According to his memoirs, Richard Pryor knowingly carried on a brief affair with a transvestite named Natasha. He also had the hots for comic Lily Tomlin.

The only palindrome of the make of a car is "A Toyota."

The word "barbecue" supposedly comes from a French phrase
meaning "from beard to tail" and referred to the roasting of an entire animal on a spit.

Cinnamon fights some bacteria. The above is information which Mr. Smarty Pants read in a book, a magazine, or the newspaper; heard on the radio; saw on television; or overheard at a party. Got any facts?
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