Flies flap their wings in figure-eight patterns.
The Apple I computer, built in a garage by founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, was originally priced at $666.66, which got the company into trouble with Christian fundamentalists.
Aphra Benn (1640-1689) was the first Englishwoman to make her living writing.
A poor Scottish farmer named Fleming once saved a boy from drowning. In return, the boy’s father paid for Fleming’s son to attend a good school. Fleming’s son was Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. The boy Fleming saved was Winston Churchill.
Houses of the Holy was the only Led Zeppelin album to include a lyric sheet.
The above is information which Mr. Smarty Pants read in a book, a magazine, or the newspaper; heard on the radio; saw on television; or overheard at a party. Got facts? Write to Mr. Smarty Pants at the Chronicle, or e-mail to mrpants@auschron.com.
This article appears in July 16 • 1999 and July 16 • 1999 (Cover).