Strange BUT TRUE

• On their urban forest data site, the city of Melbourne in Australia assigned email addresses to each of the city’s trees so it would be easier to catch and rehabilitate damaged ones. Instead, the trees received love letters.

• Wild female chimpanzees, much like humans, experience menopause.

• Giant lily pads in the Amazon River can grow up to 6 feet in diameter and even support up to 100 pounds without breaking.

• A man in the U.K. who became paralyzed after a cycling accident spent four years raising 22,000 pounds for an innovative treatment that might enable him to walk again. However, when he heard of a disabled boy who also needed surgery, that had better odds of success, he donated the entire amount to the child instead.

• On the moon, it would be possible for humans to walk on water.

• Eric Money is the only NBA player to officially score for both teams in the same game.

• A group calling themselves Sieged Security hacked into the Idaho National Laboratory with a most extraordinary ransom demand — not cash, but for the lab to research the creation of felinehuman hybrids!

• In the small Japanese town of Kamikatsu, residents are required to sort their solid waste into 45 different recycling categories.

• “Yield the crow a pudding” is an old slang term for death.

• Morton’s toe is when your second toe is longer than your big toe. It’s widespread in art, with the Statue of Liberty being one of the more famous examples.

• Jenga blocks have subtle differences in dimensions to make their construction less stable. Each brick is a different size and weight, so no two games will be alike.

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Thought for the Day: “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh