Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Luke Skywalker’s original last name was “Starkiller,” but George Lucas later changed it due to its dark connotations.

• Michael Myers’ mask in “Halloween” is a modified William Shatner mask painted white.

• In the Netherlands, while a checkmark is sometimes used to indicate approval, the Dutch more commonly use a “goedkeuringskrul,” or approval curl, often described as a curly ‘e‘ or simply a flourish.

• Protactile is a tactile language used by deafblind people to communicate through touch. It emerged in the mid-to-late 2000s.

• Ottawa will not experience a total solar eclipse for the remainder of the 21st century. The closest it will get is an annular eclipse on July 23, 2093.

• The original “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” theme song was written by Chuck Lorre, who later created “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory.”

• The lyrics to Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” are very close to being structured as a series of limericks.

• The lighter was invented several years before the match.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.