Did you know...

...that the piggy bank came to be due to a misunderstanding in the 1800's? During this time an orange type of clay called "pygg" was often used to make plates, jars etc. When the English started putting their money in the jars made out of this clay the word "pyggbank" was coined. A potter misunderstood when one of his customers asked for a pyggbank, so he made a bank made to look like a pig. Even though the customers didn't quite get what they asked for they liked the end result. The rumour spread, as did the pig banks.

Some however claim that it came about from an old tradition in Holland where the kids would get something called "feast pigs", which they got to open every Christmas.

Storing your money in moneyboxes is however an ancient tradition, moneyboxes in different shapes have been found in different places. Moneyboxes shaped as Greek tax houses have been found and dated to 220 BC

Here are some more or less useless facts that you might not know, or did you know that...

...of OTF's senior officers about 40% are female.
...if a mackerel stops swimming, it dies.
...between 1977 and 1999, George Lucas didn't direct any movies at all.
...ducks have six eyelids, three in each eye.
...six different cats played Data's cat Spot.
...there is enough fuel in the tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car around the world four times.
...one third of OTF seniors belong to the Star Wars affiliation.
...residents of the United Kingdom consume more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
...Luke Skywalker's surname was changed at the last minute from Starkiller to make it less violent.
...every continent in the world contains a city called Rome.
...CL6 Demon Slayer has met over 80 OTFer's and the first one was Nynaeve.
...one out of every three people can't snap their fingers.
...Charlie X is the only Star Trek episode to use the word "earthlings" - and a terran (McCoy) says it!
...every U.S. President that has had a beard has been Republican.
...Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M.A.S.H.) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean War.
...Martina Sirtis of Star Trek: TNG first auditioned for the role of Macha Hernandez that later became Tasha Yar.
...5%-10% of Star Trek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawal symptoms if they miss an episode.
...when Qui-Gon and Jar-Jar enter Mos Espa for the first time a ship flies above them (SW: Episode I). It is Kyle Katarn's ship the Crow (From Jedi Knight)
Come back next month for more useless/funny/trivial information - you never know when you might need some of this stuff!