Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Barbie doll's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

The starling is the most abundant bird in North America. Every one of them descends from the few birds released in New York's Central Park in 1890 by Eugene Schieffelin.

Cartographer Amerigo Vespucci was the brother of Simonetta Vespucci, model for Boticelli's "Venus."

U.S. patent 4,610,039 relates to a waste container to be held in the hand for the collection of liquid waste, primarily stomach contents thrown up at attacks of vomiting.

The film Dangerous Minds, was released as My Posse Don't Do Homework
in Britain.

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