Knife Facts

Table knives were originally made to be rounded instead of pointed to prevent people from picking their teeth... and stabbing each other.

Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives, and their fingers.

The Buck 110 is the brass-and-wood folding knife in a million pockets. At 13, Hoyt Buck forged his first blade from a worn-out file. In WWII, the country ran short of knives for soldiers. He built a basement forge in Mountain Home, Idaho. "I didn't have any knives, but I sure knew how to make them," he said. His son Al built the company. The 110 came in 1964. The family still makes them.