Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

The real meaning of the word "dork" is "a whale's penis."

Newly unclassified CIA documents reveal that the remote possibility of alien invasion once elicited greater fear than a Soviet nuclear attack.

In Aicuña, a small town in Argentina, albinism is almost 200 times more likely to occur than anywhere else in the world. Isolation and inbreeding – but not incest, the townspeople insist, despite persistent rumors – are the likely causes.

The first Beatle to visit America was George Harrison in September 1963. At the time, the Beatles were fairly unknown, and George was visiting his sister, Louise, in Benton, Ill. During his stay, he played with a band called the Four Vests in nearby Eldorade. The crowd didn't know who he was, but he soon blew them away.

Hydrochloric acid is used to break down bones from cattle industry into gelatin that is used as film emulsion, capsules for medicine, golf balls, and food (ice cream, Jell-O).