Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

According to one trainer, goats make good horse psychologists.

According to Wikipedia and National Geographic, some weather stations in Chile's Atacama Desert have never received rain.

Willie Mosconi, playing straight pool, once pocketed 526 balls consecutively. That means he ran the table more than 35 times in a row, without a single miss. His record has never been beaten.

The song "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" was written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning. Published in 1956, it was recorded by Perry Como and went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart. The melody is based on Emmanuel Chabrier's 1883 composition, "España." He was inspired to write it after his travels in Spain.

Your nose produces between 1 and 2 quarts of mucus a day. And that's just sitting still. When you exercise, you produce more.

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