Pointless fact of the week:  If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green...

• The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can
  for a carburetor.
• Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane,
  just in case there is a crash.
• In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white
  paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
• The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning
  their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
• The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for
  water.
  
• A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
  
• 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
• The average housefly lives for one month.
• The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
• The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
• Babies are born without kneecaps.  They don't appear until they are 2-6
  years old.
• 40-people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
• When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
• A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
  morning.
• First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued for 27 years. Operations ceased on 24 October 2003. The last "retirement" flight occurred on 26 November 2003.
• An ice meteor? The largest piece of ice ever to fall on our little blue planet was six meters across. It fell in Scotland in 1849. No one was killed.
  
• We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
  
• Although diamond is the hardest substance on Earth, when heated to 763ºC (1404ºF) it vanishes. A bit of CO2 is released, but not even ash remains.
  
• Did you know that you can pruchase a three part course to become a certified ghost hunter?
  
• By weight, the sun is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements.
• A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.
• Central air conditioners use 98% more energy than ceiling fans.
  
• Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
• Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe.
• If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this planet would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.
  
• In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy."