Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to one source, the average British driver will let rip 912 pints of fart during their lifetime.

A very average watercolor of a basket of flowers is on permanent display in the museum of the Improved Order of Red Men in Waco. It's by a failed artist, Adolf Hitler.

San Francisco has the lowest percentage of kids of any major city in the U.S.

The annual accumulation of debris from the world's computer keyboards weighs about 37.5 million tons.

To damage our ozone layer, a star would have to go supernova within 25 light years of Earth. That type of event happens once every 700 million years or so.

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