Brain Damage SPECIAL EDITION

This Brain Damage is only special edition because it is featured exclusively on The Pointer's blog...here!

- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

- Gilligan from Gilligan's Island had the first name of Willy which was only on the never-aired pilot show. The skipper's real name was Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode.

- A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Who comes up with this stuff?

- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

- When doctors in Los Angeles went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18 percent.

- Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."

- One gallon of motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water if polluted.

- Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles in the nude, their bodies dyed blue.

- There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them there so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams give us the distance to the moon to the centimeters.

- Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees Fahrenheit.