Strange BUT TRUE

• Iguanas have three eyes: two in the normal spots and a third on top of their heads, that only perceives brightness.

• Banks employ therapists known as wealth psychologists who help ultra-rich clients unable to mentally cope with the guilt they feel over their immense wealth, advise on inheritance issues and counsel parents on how to raise children who aren’t spoiled by money.

• Tyromancy is the practice of predicting the future with cheese.

• In 2016, a student left a pineapple in an art museum in Scotland. Two days later, it had been placed in a glass case as part of an exhibition.

• “Coffin birth” is a phenomenon that occurs when a pregnant woman delivers a child spontaneously after her death, due to gases that build up in the abdominal area, putting pressure on the mother’s uterus and forcing the baby through the birth canal.

• The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.” Now you know why we call it brain freeze.

• Originally scheduled to be erected in Barcelona, the Eiffel Tower was rejected because citizens thought it was an eyesore.

• Alcatraz was the only prison to offer its inmates hot showers, but that had nothing to do with personal comfort. Rather, the reasoning went that if the prisoners were used to the hot shower-water, they’d be unable to cope with the frigid temps of the San Francisco Bay and hence deterred from attempting to escape.

• Hershey’s Kisses take their name from the kissing sound deposited chocolate makes as it falls from the machine to the conveyor belt.

• If you point your car keys to your head, it will increase the remote’s signal range.

••• Thought for the Day: “Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind.” — Amit Ray