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 Cessna 150 airplane over a 2-year period (1978-1980), and consumed an estimated nine tons of metal during his career from 1966 to 1997.