1.  Comet tails always point away from the sun, because they’re created by solar winds.

2.  The British had 500,000 cats enlisted in their army during World War One, mostly to kill rats on ships and at bases.  One of them named Simon even got a medal of valor for surviving a brutal attack and continuing to kill rats.

3.  The San Antonio Spurs are the only NBA team that doesn’t have a losing record, all-time, against any other NBA team.  And the only team that they have an EVEN record against is the Portland Trail Blazers.  They’re 88-88 against them.

4.  The frozen margarita machine was invented by a guy named Mariano Martinez in Dallas in 1971.  He modified a soft serve ice cream machine to sell drinks at his Mexican restaurant.

Here is today’s bonus fact:

5.  Hewlett-Packard could’ve been called Packard-Hewlett . . . Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard flipped a coin to decide whose name would go first.

(RandomWalk / Priceonomics / Basketball-Reference / Wiki / HP.com)