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Mr. Smarty Pants

By Mr. Smarty Pants, December 17, 1999, Columns

No two zebras are patterned alike.

The first pizza delivery was in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito, owner of Pietro il Pizzaiolo in Naples. The recipients were King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. Refusing to go to the likes of a pizzeria, the queen ordered in.

Adolph Hitler received royalties for postage stamps that bore his portrait.

The Anglo-Saxons apparently didn't have any swear words. What we now call "crude Anglo-Saxon epithets" actually originated in the latter Middle Ages and came from Holland.

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