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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2FY teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn why a koala might be a good murder suspect and how babies get made. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Koala Killer (7/28/10) The koala is one of the few mammals, other than primates, to have fingerprints.  Their fingerprints are very similar to human fingerprints.  According to an infamously dubious, …

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Knots and McDonalds

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about Georgia Tech’s most famous alumnus and the world’s oldest clam. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. I’m Not Lovin’ It (6/27/10) McDonald’s has a lot of odd foods on their international menus.  It’s really quite interesting.  You should check it out.  But one food item on the McDonald’s menu …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about the difference between white and brown chicken eggs, and some quick facts about doomsday cults. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Doomsday Cults: Sparknotes Version (6/2/10) Joining a doomsday cult may seem like a good idea, but it’s not.  Actually, it doesn’t seem like a good idea …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about the two dollar bills and decapitation. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Two Dollar Bills (5/31/10) The 2-dollar bill was discontinued in 1966, but reintroduced 10 years later as a part of the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (WOOHOO!!!!!…).  Currently, the usage of $2 bills is increasing.  For instance, …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about the three worst soccer teams in the world and why Satyr Golf is the best golf. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Soccer or Football or Boring (5/21/10) In 1863 England, the rules of football (not American football) were revised to distinguish association football (soccer) from rugby football.  The …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about Georgia Tech’s most famous alumnus and the world’s oldest clam. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Pranks (5/17/10) George P. Burdell is a fictitious student that was enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927.  After a prospective student, Ed Smith, received two applications to the college, he filled one of …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about the origins of proofs in alcohol and why Gerald Ford might not be exactly who you think he is. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Proof! (5/9/10) The term “proof,” used to measure of how much alcohol is in a bottle of booze, originated in the 18th …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about why there might not be more ways to skin a cat and why porn is the most popular thing on the internet. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Cat Idiom #83…ish (4/26/10) If you think about it, the expression, “there is more than one way to skin a cat,” …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

After a bit of a hiatus, we’re back with  SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn why a blind person has the worst nightmares and some insight into animal names. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Rip Van Stinkle (4/18/10) What does a blind person’s dreams look like?  Studies have revealed that the deciding factor in whether a blind person has visual …

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The Smartest Year and W2FY Present: Your Smartest Weekly Update

Each Sunday W2Fy teams up with SmartestYear.com to bring you some overly pedantic facts to spice up conversations. This week learn about historical duels and how hipsters might be the next Hitler. As always, check out SmartestYear.com everyday for a brand new fact and all sorts of new knowledge. Historical Low Blow (3/5/10) On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed Secretary of TreasuryAlexander Hamilton in a duel (present day equivalent of Joe Biden killing Timothy Geithner).  The duel …

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