While sleeping, an adult weighing 150 pounds burns up
about 80 kcal an hour.
According to his memoirs, Richard Pryor knowingly carried on a brief affair
with a transvestite named Natasha. He also had the hots for comic Lily
Tomlin.
The only palindrome of the make of a car is “A Toyota.”
The word “barbecue” supposedly comes from a French phrase
meaning “from
beard to tail” and referred to the roasting of an entire animal on a spit.
Cinnamon fights some bacteria. The above is information which Mr. Smarty Pants read in a book, a magazine, or
the newspaper; heard on the radio; saw on television; or overheard at a party.
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This article appears in January 19 • 1996 and January 19 • 1996 (Cover).