Pointless fact of the week:  During the last 3,500 years, it is estimated that the world has had a grand total of 230 years in which no wars took place.

• The Mayans often "enhanced" the beauty of their children by flattening their foreheads with a board starting at birth and purposely crossing their eyes.
• "hello" wasn't always the first thing said over the phone. The first operating phone service was esatblished in 1878 and the formal greeting back then was "ahoy"
• In 18th Century Britain, you could take out insurance against going to hell.
• Blackbeard often fired incendiary cannonballs filled with beeswax, fat and gunpowder. They exploded upon impact, burning with the ferocity of napalm.
• In 1986, a Russian submarine almost launched a nuclear attack on the U.S. when its radar erroneously identified an arctic seal as an incoming torpedo.
• Dreamt is the only word in the english language that ends with the letters 'mt'.
• No word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• 'lollipop is the longest word typed with only your right hand.
• 'Stewardesses'    is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
• The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
• 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
• The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
• All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
• Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
• Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
• Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
• The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
• US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
• The Ice Man, found in the Italian Alps, is now thought to have been murdered. Scientists have just found an arrowhead stuck in the man's back. He is now known as the oldest murder victim on record.
• Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840.
• In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan but were ravaged by a hurricane that destroyed their fleet.
• Ukrainian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, created the modern day Christian calendar.
• It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world.
  
• The sport Lacrosse was initially played by Native American Indians. They played the sport to prepare for war.
• On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten times more than males do while playing sports.
  
• The national sport of Japan is sumo wrestling.
• In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats.
  
• According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
• A jiffy is a brief periond of time lasting approximatley 1/100 of a second.
• A quinquennium is a period of time lasting 5 years.
• The Romans constructed their first sundial in 164 B.C.
• 1 Picosecond = one-trillionth of a second.
• In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.
• In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.
• In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
• 96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
• 1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life
• 95% of the worlds population regularly suffers from Bellybutton lint at any given time.
• A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.