Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

The Quran has been translated into Yiddish.

The only commercially available U.S.-format DVD of Ettore Scola's 1974 Italian film We All Loved Each Other So Much is copyrighted by Brigham Young University. It bears the cover title, C'eravamo Tanto Amati, in Italian rather than English.

The first yield sign appeared in Tulsa, Okla., in 1950, invented by a Tulsa Police Department member, Captain Clinton Riggs.

One of the world's tiniest frogs, the Gardiner's Seychelles, uses its mouth as an acoustic chamber to hear. Most frogs have a middle ear that carries sound to an inner ear. These frogs have inner ears, but don't have middle ears.

The real name of the 19th century poet laureate is "Alfred, Lord Tennyson." But some refer to him mistakenly as "Lord Alfred Tennyson."

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