Mr. Smarty Pants

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In Spain, folks call a city block "una manzana." In Mexico, that's an apple.

According to William Safire, intelligence analysts have a technique to reveal a foreign government's internal dissension called "walking back the cat." Agents use what they know from the point of discovery to reveal who knew what prior to the point of discovery.

There are 22 killer whales kept in captivity in the United States.

Gilda Radner's character Roseanne Rosannadanna, who sometimes quoted a "Richard Fader from Fort Lee, New Jersey," would have been happy to know there really is a Richard Fader in Fort Lee, NJ.

Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams' new passion is photography.

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