Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

PowerPoint, ditchweed, pink hair, and more

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
PowerPoint was originally invented for the Macintosh only. Its original name was Presenter.

More than 98% of the cannabis plants eradicated by the Drug Enforcement Agency are ditchweed, a wild relative of hemp.

Tom Shah was among more than 200 people killed in 1998 when al Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Before he worked for the CIA, he played in a backup band for Perry Como.

Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, constituting about 0.44% of it. It is a key component of white food coloring and is used to print the white "M" on M&M's.

Pink hair may be the current rage, but it was also the rage in 1914.

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