Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Oct. 4, 1996
It is illegal to spit, carry live animals, eat, drink, smoke, or operate cellular technology on the Washington, D.C. subway.
The kid on the Encyclopedia Britannica ads of a few years back -- the one who keeps interrupting the announcer -- is the son of famed adman and humorist Stan Freberg, who created the ad.
The Ford Motor Company failed to sell the Pinto in Brazil because "pinto" is slang there for "tiny male genitals." Ford changed the name to "corcel," which means "horse" in Portuguese.
Stella, a cheese company in Lena, Wisconsin, produces 80 percent of the world's mozzarella.