Mister Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Nov. 14, 1997
A research team at the Pasteur Hospital in Nice, France recently found that people suffering from blood clots are three times as likely to have recently been on a flight or coach trip lasting more than four hours.
Guinea pigs are a delicacy in Peru.
Despite popular myth, Marco Polo did not introduce noodles from China to Italy. The Arabs introduced noodles to both Asia and Europe hundreds of years earlier.
Dr. J. Bostock coined the term "hayfever."
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