Young Adolf Hitler once spent several months living in Liverpool with a half-brother.
The term “smartycat” was used in the Three Stooges short subject “Fiddlers Three,” circa 1948, in a scene where Moe is trying to shoe a mule and is continually hit in the face by the mule’s tail. He ties a hammer to the tail, says, “I’ll show thee, smartycat!” He is, of course, then hit in the face with the hammer-laden tail.
One in 374 penguins are partially color blind in their left eye.
India is second only to China in the production of onions.
Chilango is a tease of a Spanish word signifying a resident of Mexico City; the word combines chile and chango, as in the spicy pepper and the monkey.
This article appears in 20th Anniversary.