Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Jan. 15, 2016
Many hospitals in China use the 4th floor for the morgue since the word for 4 in Mandarin sounds a lot like the word for death.
In 1881, Democrats accused Republican Chester Alan Arthur of being ineligible for the presidency, claiming he was born in Canada.
According to one antique car enthusiast, mites hate Bounce. If you have a car with mites, if you put Bounce in the car, the mites go away. FYI, mites love Model A Fords. If you buy a Model A, you will need a box of Bounce.
According to Popular Science magazine, airplanes hit more turtles than they do drones (198 reported since 1990).
Although giving "the finger" dates back to The Clouds by Aristophanes, and was known by the ancient Romans as the digitus impudicus or "impudent finger," its first documented appearance in the U.S. was in 1886 when Old Hoss Radbourn, a pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of the rival New York Giants.
