Today I learned that air conditioning for temporary tents and housing in Iraq and Afghanistan costs the US military a total of $20 billion which is $1 billion more than NASA’s entire budget.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Today I learned that there is a federal law in the US that makes it illegal to transport more than $5 in pennies out of the country and that it is also illegal to melt pennies.

(Source: Yahoo!)