Here are a few random facts to start your morning off:
- The National Academy of Sciences provides a free ‘science hotline’ for filmmakers in order to encourage more scientifically accurate movies. The service is free to both professional and amateur films, as well as TV and video game projects.
- Being forgetful is not only normal, it makes you smarter. The main function of memory is to improve decision making, and forgetting irrelevant details helps you to be more intelligent and make informed decisions.
- Women of all ages are more likely to survive in times of crisis. A study of the last 250 years shows that women have longer life spans during famine or disease epidemics, and female survival rates are especially higher during infancy.
- If you want to know whether a diamond is real, breathe on it. Diamonds are very efficient heat conductors, so the fog from your breath will disappear almost immediately if it is real. If the fog sticks around a few seconds before clearing up, the rock is probably a fake.
- Benjamin Franklin designed America’s very first one-cent coin, which was engraved with the caption: “Mind your business.”
Your weather forecast for today:
A minimum of 4°C and a maximum of 19°C
Hazy sunshine; air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive groups
Sunrise: 6:50 AM
Sunset: 5:39 PM
*Weather update by AccuWeather
