Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Jan. 10, 1997
Oklahoma City's two airports are named after people who died in plane crashes -- the largest, Will Rogers World Airport, is named after the humorist, and Wiley Post Airport, a smaller field, is named after the aviator who died with Will Rogers.
When he was a teenager, killer John Wayne Gacy wanted to be a priest.
A group of scientists and dreamers called the Universal Lunarian Society intrigued with the idea of colonizing the moon is offering sites in the lunar crater Copernicus for $50 an acre.
The dance known as "The Tarantella" was developed in Italy as a ritual antidote for the bite of a tarantula.
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