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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

By Mr. Smarty Pants, December 24, 2010, Columns

After 20 years of trying to make it a business, fuel ethanol from corn can only be sustained through $6 billion of taxes a year.

They have coyotes in Chicago.

The cost of making an iPhone – about $179 – is credited to China, even though the China assembly process is only about $6.50 per phone.

Most Sioux scalped enemies. But Crazy Horse did not take scalps, nor did he tie up his tail before battle with fur, feathers, or colored cloth as other warriors did.

In certain parts of England the term "nog" refers to strong ale. But "noggin" also refers to the filling of gaps or voids in the vacant sections of their roughly hewn timber-frame constructed buildings.

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