Trivia and Amazing Facts
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
- When sailors speak of sheets (as in "four sheets to the wind"), they are not talking about sails. A sheet in nautical terminology is a rope or chain
- Corks A wine cork costs about 10 cents if it is made from pressed cork scraps, and about 45 cents if it is one of the extra-long corks used to close the bottles at famous wine estates in Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, and California
- Andrew Jackson was the first U.S. President to ride in a railroad train
- According to legend, Paris fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel, his only vulnerable spot
