Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., July 5, 1996
According to Wired, some U.S. experts reportedly believe the Soviets used a "seismic weapon" to trigger an earthquake in Beijing in 1977.
There is only one surviving photo of Abraham Lincoln laying at rest in his coffin.
The expression "it's raining cats and dogs" originally started out as a German saying that roughly translated to "it's raining cats and ducks."
Austin's Paramount Theatre originally had three vomitoriums.
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