Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

In 2004, drug makers spent a record $123 million to lobby lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

The term "belly dancing" was coined by a 19th-century American business tycoon who visited the Middle East and thought it would make good entertainment and a little money at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

Despite the fact that thousands of fish, frogs, armadillos, egrets, killdeer, shorebirds, and marsh rabbits die or are injured with each space shuttle launch, animal populations in the Cape Canaveral area have remained steady.

The village of Salado, Texas, had to incorporate recently to avoid getting gobbled up by the huge metropolis of Belton, Texas.

In the movie Apocalypse Now, Colonel Lucas (played by Harrison Ford) is paying homage to George Lucas, who directed him in American Graffiti and Star Wars.