Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Nov. 30, 2012
The highest bowling score ever by a U.S. president was Richard Nixon's 232.
If you compare the ratio of government employment to population, the public sector – federal, state, and local government employees – is smaller now than it has been since 1968. The public sector has cut 680,000 jobs since 2009.
"Knock Knock" jokes first became popular during Prohibition, when people used them as a secret code to gain entrance to speakeasies. Some say the first such joke was told in the restroom of a Philadelphia hotel: "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Ranger." "Ranger who?" "Ranger clothes before you leave here."
Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors together control 80% of beer sales in the United States.
There were no deaths due to texting in Utah in 2010 or 2011.
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