Trivia and Amazing Facts 18-02-08

• 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.

• The word "karate" means "empty hand."

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