Metal Facts

If two pieces of the same pure metal touch in the vacuum of space, they can permanently fuse together through a process called cold welding.

If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.

If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

It 'snows' metal on Venus.

French entertainer Michel Lotito ate an entire airplane piece by piece. It was a Cessna 150. He chewed through it over two years, swallowing bolts, the propeller, the seats, the wings. Across his career he consumed roughly nine tons of metal plus glass, batteries, and rubber tyres. Doctors said his stomach lining was twice the thickness of a normal person's.