Facts You Probably don’t Need

• According to the Nation Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), more cars are stolen on New Year’s Day than on any other holiday.

• The first documented sextuplets to survive infancy were the Rosenkowitz — David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette — who were born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1974.

• In 2016, $90,000 worth of Parmesan cheese was stolen in Wisconsin. Thankfully, it was later recovered.

• Park Ranger Roy Sullivan is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the person to survive the most lightning strikes. He was struck in 1942, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976 and 1977.

• Thomas Edison patented his first invention in 1869. It was a vote-counting device developed for the Massachusetts State Legislature. It was never used.

• In 1936, John Steinbeck wrote to a friend telling him that his dog ate half of the manuscript for “Of Mice and Men”: “My setter pup, left alone one night, made confetti of about half my manuscript,” he wrote. “I was pretty mad, but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically.”

• A guinea pig’s teeth never stop growing.

Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.