Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Dean Martin used to be a New York City taxi driver.

Xaviera Hollander ("The Happy Hooker") spent the first three years of her life living in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II in Indonesia.

Insurance fraud is a crime in 49 states.

Almost half of American presidents from 1789 to 1974 suffered from a mental illness at some point in life, according to a recent study by the Duke University Medical Center. More than half of those presidents struggled with their symptoms – most often depression – while in office.

Emily Dickinson thought she was so ugly she would stay in another room whenever she had visitors and talk to them through an open door.