Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Penguin poop can produce laughing gas.

• About one in every 2,000 babies is born with natal teeth. It is said Napoleon and Julius Caesar were both born with teeth.

• In 1994, Bill Gates purchased the “Codex Leicester” — one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks full of scientific musing and sketches — for just over $30 million.

• Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues, standing at five feet, three inches tall, is the shortest player in NBA history.

• Anteaters don’t have teeth. They use their long tongue to eat insects which are then crushed against the inside of their mouths and again with their stomach muscles.

• U.S. telephone numbers from 555-0100 to 555-0199 are non-working and reserved for use by the entertainment and advertising industries.

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote “A Study in Scarlet” — which included the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes — in just six weeks.

• After leaving office, Ronald Reagan was offered the role of Hill Valley’s mayor in “Back to the Future Part III” but turned it down.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.