Strange BUT TRUE

• On Earth you need heat to fuse metal, but in space, due to the lack of atmosphere, two pieces of the same kind of metal will fuse together with just a little pressure in a process called cold welding.

• The average person will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime. Nose hairs alone contribute 6.5 feet of that.

• Digging a hole to China is possible if you start in Argentina.

• While adult giraffes usually sleep standing up, their offspring get more comfortable by hunkering down on the ground

and taking advantage of their extra-flexible necks, twisting around to plop their heads on their own posteriors.

• The U.S. government gave Indiana University $1 million to study memes.

• Caffeine, which is found in tea leaves, guarana berries, kola nuts and, of course, coffee beans, acts as a natural pesticide. It overloads the nervous systems of insects that try to eat the plants containing it, paralyzing and even killing them before they can do too much damage.

• Liquids can boil and freeze at the same time.

• Can’t get your kids to eat their carrots and broccoli? Perhaps they suffer from lachanophobia, otherwise known as the fear of vegetables.

• Hurricanes release the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs.

• Harry Truman was the first president to celebrate Hanukkah in the White House. In 1951, he accepted a menorah from David Ben Gurion, the prime minister of Israel.

• Charles Dickens believed that sleeping facing north would improve his writing.

• Finland was the first nation to experiment with autonomous vehicles in urban conditions. The country’s laws don’t oblige drivers to be inside the vehicle.

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Thought for the Day: “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” — George Washington Carver