Strange But True

* The opposite of paranoia is pronoia. A person suffering from pronoia feels that people or entities around them are plotting to do them good!

* American flags left on the moon will eventually get bleached white by the sun.

* Only two animals have the ability to see behind themselves without turning around: the rabbit and the parrot. Their eyes are on the sides of their head, allowing them to swivel 360 degrees.

* Not that we ever gave any real thought to the matter, but “snow-bones” are the lines of snow or ice left at the sides of roads after the rest of the snow has melted.

* David Babcock broke a Guinness World Record for his time in the Kansas City marathon, at 5 hours, 48 minutes and 27 seconds. But not for running — he managed to complete the race while knitting a scarf that measured just over 12 feet long. As he said later, “Knitting the whole way really did help distract me from the hard parts of the marathon.”

* At the planet Neptune’s highest altitudes, winds blow at more than 1,100 mph.

* Mozart sold the most CDs in 2016, beating out Adele, Drake and Beyonce, even though those artists all had Grammy-winning hits that year.

* In the 16th century, Parliament passed a law declaring the use of makeup “to deceive an Englishman into marriage” punishable as witchcraft.

* A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults by the skincare brand StriVectin found 63% admitted to spending at least half their time on video calls staring at their own face, while 58% admitted to getting so distracted by their own appearance that they sometimes stopped listening.

Thought for the Day: “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling