Pointless fact of the week:

Swordfish have been known to ram their sword into small boats and sink them.

• In Scotland, a sheep survived 50 days buried in a snowdrift, chewing on its wool for protein.
• When a ship sunk 600 miles south of the Philippines, a woman was kept afloat for two days by a sea turtle until she was rescued.
• Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
• A high-quality, fully faceted, round brilliant diamond has at least 58 facets that give it maximum sparkle and brilliance.
• Andrew Jackson was the first US President to ride in a railroad train.
• Americans send an estimated 900 million Valentine's Day cards each year.
• The celebration of Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire.
• A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
• A "Funambulist" is a tightrope walker.
• There are 3 completely different versions of the Mona Lisa under the final portrait, all painted by da Vinci, as revealed by X-rays.
• A car with a manual transmission gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with an automatic transmission.
• A bubble is round because the air within it presses equally on all its parts, thus causing all surfaces to be equidistant from its center.
• The original Lassie starred in his first film only months after being abandoned by his owners for chasing motorcycles.
• Among parents, 38% say that Monday is the most stressful day of their week.
• Hey Jude by the Beatles had the longest running time of any British number 1 hit.  The second longest was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
• The first color TV show was The Cisco Kid.
• Eighty percent of the animals on earth are insects.
• Georgia is the world's top pecan producer, with more than 105 million pounds per year.
• Twenty-five percent of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• Calvin Coolidge is the only President sworn into office by his own father.
• Bats are the only mammals that fly.
• Frank and Jesse James committed the first daytime bank robbery on Feb. 14, 1866.
• The first roll of toilet paper was introduced in 1871.
• New freckles generally stop appearing after age 19 or 20.
• A person who is starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes.  Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
• The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, MO, in 1912.
• There are approximately 100,000 glaciers in Alaska.
• The Pony Express lasted only about 18 months, from 1860 to 1861.
• A pencil is made in two parts, each with a long groove.  The graphite goes into the groove, and the two pieces are glued together.
• Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees.
• A balloon released into the jet stream would take 2 weeks to travel completely around the globe.
• A quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference.  A dime has one less.
• A quart-size pail holds 8 million grains of sand.
• Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
• In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his 117,000-volume library with him everywhere.  Camels trained to walk in alphabetical order carried it.
• A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• Dinner guests in medieval England were expected to bring their own knives to the table because hosts did not provide them.
• The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.
• The Pilgrims dismantled the Mayflower and used its lumber to build a barn because they did not intend to return to England.
• A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
• "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
• Annie Oakley shot a cigar out of Kaiser Wilhelm's mouth while touring Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
• A recent study conducted by the Shyness Clinic in Menlo Park, CA, revealed that alomost 90% of Americans label themselves as shy.
• While Australia is the world's smallest continent, it's also the largest island in the world.
• A stack of $1 dollar bills one mile high would be worth more than $14 million dollars.
• "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
• Herbert Hoover was the first President to have an asteroid named after him.
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Pointless fact of the week:

Swordfish have been known to ram their sword into small boats and sink them.

• In Scotland, a sheep survived 50 days buried in a snowdrift, chewing on its wool for protein.
• When a ship sunk 600 miles south of the Philippines, a woman was kept afloat for two days by a sea turtle until she was rescued.
• Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
• A high-quality, fully faceted, round brilliant diamond has at least 58 facets that give it maximum sparkle and brilliance.
• Andrew Jackson was the first US President to ride in a railroad train.
• Americans send an estimated 900 million Valentine's Day cards each year.
• The celebration of Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire.
• A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
• A "Funambulist" is a tightrope walker.
• There are 3 completely different versions of the Mona Lisa under the final portrait, all painted by da Vinci, as revealed by X-rays.
• A car with a manual transmission gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with an automatic transmission.
• A bubble is round because the air within it presses equally on all its parts, thus causing all surfaces to be equidistant from its center.
• The original Lassie starred in his first film only months after being abandoned by his owners for chasing motorcycles.
• Among parents, 38% say that Monday is the most stressful day of their week.
• Hey Jude by the Beatles had the longest running time of any British number 1 hit.  The second longest was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
• The first color TV show was The Cisco Kid.
• Eighty percent of the animals on earth are insects.
• Georgia is the world's top pecan producer, with more than 105 million pounds per year.
• Twenty-five percent of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• Calvin Coolidge is the only President sworn into office by his own father.
• Bats are the only mammals that fly.
• Frank and Jesse James committed the first daytime bank robbery on Feb. 14, 1866.
• The first roll of toilet paper was introduced in 1871.
• New freckles generally stop appearing after age 19 or 20.
• A person who is starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes.  Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
• The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, MO, in 1912.
• There are approximately 100,000 glaciers in Alaska.
• The Pony Express lasted only about 18 months, from 1860 to 1861.
• A pencil is made in two parts, each with a long groove.  The graphite goes into the groove, and the two pieces are glued together.
• Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees.
• A balloon released into the jet stream would take 2 weeks to travel completely around the globe.
• A quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference.  A dime has one less.
• A quart-size pail holds 8 million grains of sand.
• Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
• In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his 117,000-volume library with him everywhere.  Camels trained to walk in alphabetical order carried it.
• A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• Dinner guests in medieval England were expected to bring their own knives to the table because hosts did not provide them.
• The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.
• The Pilgrims dismantled the Mayflower and used its lumber to build a barn because they did not intend to return to England.
• A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
• "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
• Annie Oakley shot a cigar out of Kaiser Wilhelm's mouth while touring Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
• A recent study conducted by the Shyness Clinic in Menlo Park, CA, revealed that alomost 90% of Americans label themselves as shy.
• While Australia is the world's smallest continent, it's also the largest island in the world.
• A stack of $1 dollar bills one mile high would be worth more than $14 million dollars.
• "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
• Herbert Hoover was the first President to have an asteroid named after him.
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.