Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., March 21, 2025
During World War II, selling sliced bread in the U.S. was illegal.
In Australia, it is considered polite to thank bus drivers as you exit, or to wave them goodbye so they can see it in their rearview mirror.
Providing one hour of attorney time to every American household facing a legal problem would cost about $40 billion, wrote Stanford Law School legal scholars in 2016 – and that’s about 30 times the 2013 figure for overall legal aid expenditures.
In the wild, turkey vultures have a 16-year life span, but in captivity they can live 45 years.
It was 58 years ago this month that artist Peter Blake met with Paul McCartney to discuss the cover of the Sgt. Pepper’s album. Blake suggested it include a photo of the band surrounded by cardboard cutouts of people – it could be a magical crowd of whomever they wanted.
