Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., March 20, 2015
On March 12, 1951, two completely different comic strips premiered in the U.S. and England with the same name: Dennis the Menace.
Lyndon B. Johnson used to fix cars.
Water absorbs microwaves better than ice. That's because in ice, the water molecules are locked together in a crystal structure by hydrogen bonds. Therefore, it is easier to boil water with a microwave oven than it is to melt ice. This is why you shouldn't defrost a chicken on full power.
The 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo advocated the use of LSD. To research his role in the film, Groucho Marx tried some LSD with friend Paul Krassner.
According to Phil Plait at Slate.com, Springfield in The Simpsons can't be located in the United States or even in the Northern Hemisphere. He bases his theory on the fact that in a scene in a recent episode with guest star Elon Musk, the tips of a waxing crescent moon point to the right, which is only possible in the Southern Hemisphere.
