Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Dec. 7, 2012
Gangnam style? What about Gangnam history? Forty years ago, this district of Seoul was called Jamwon-dong and consisted mainly of farmers working in cabbage fields and pear orchards.
Since 1964, Smokey Bear has had his own ZIP Code: 20252.
During World War II, Hershey's cranked out 24 million chocolate bars a week.
Unlike the movie version of Tarzan, in Edgar Rice Burrough's book, the character was multilingual.
Artist Margaret Keane is universally known as the "mother of big-eye art." Her sad-eye waif paintings were popular from the Fifties through the Seventies. In the 1960s, her art was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane, who locked her in a room, forced her to paint, and took credit for her work. She will be portrayed by Reese Witherspoon in an upcoming film.
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