Strange BUT TRUE

• The most leaves ever found on a clover is 56.

• In 2012, General Mills sent professional basketball player Jeremy Lin a special jersey made entirely out of Fruit RollUps after he tweeted about his love for the snack.

• The southern polar region of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, contains cryovolcanoes, an exotic type of geyser that spews ice instead of magma.

• Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, with nearly 75% of all aluminum ever produced still in use today.

• The first footprints on the moon will remain there for a million years.

• A Kansas man requested that an Iowa court grant his motion for trial by combat. His opponents? His ex-wife and her attorney, whom he desired to meet “on the field of battle” in order to “rend their souls from their corporeal bodies.”

• The world’s largest recorded snowflake measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.

• Similar to how human babies suck their thumbs for comfort, baby elephants suck on their trunks.

• In the Middle Ages, a man’s wealth was measured by his stockpile of pepper.

• A 639-year performance by an automated organ, based on avant-garde composer John

Cage’s “As Slow as Possible,” started in September 2001 and is still running at St. Buchard Church in Germany. Progressing so slowly that visitors have to wait months for a chord change, it is scheduled to conclude in 2640.

• Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin brought a chalice, bread and wine to the moon to take communion. Thought for the Day: “Yet I had rather be remembered as those brave beginners are, though many of them missed the triumph, than as the latecomers will be, who only beat the drums and wave the banners when the victory is won.” — Louisa May Alcott