Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Oct. 10, 2014
In Portuguese, "tingo" is the act of taking all the objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing them.
Duncan Hines used to be a traveling salesman.
According to Euromonitor International, 2011, the average American buys a whopping 170 liters of soda in the course of a year. That's 16% more than the next biggest soda consumers, Mexicans.
According to Persi Diaconis, a statistician at Stanford University and former professional magician, a spinning penny will land as tails about 80% of the time because the extra material on the head side shifts the center of mass slightly.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, every tree in urban Tennessee provides about $2.25 worth of measurable economic benefits every year.