Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

By the mid-1880s, horses had deposited 2.5 million pounds of manure and 60,000 gallons of urine on New York City's streets.

A street in Greenwich Village is known for its Pakistani shoe stores. Legend has it, one Pakistani couple set up a shoe store there long ago, told folks back home about how successful they had become, and the rest is history.

It is believed that Giant Oarfish, which get up to 50 feet long, were once the reason for many sea monster reports.

Bing Crosby's image was used to hawk products such as toothpaste, cheese spread, and mouse traps.

According to writer Laura Erickson, starlings came to the United States after Eugene Schieffelen started a society to help spread various plants and animals from one country or continent to others. His group wanted to establish in America every bird ever mentioned in a play by Shakespeare. The group released 60 starlings in New York's Central Park on March 16, 1890.