Vaayana Dinam (4).

Did you know that? 

* Ants never sleep

* When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.

* Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because

   They were both deaf.

* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

* "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

* Babies are born without knee caps - actually, they're made of cartilage and the bone hardens

   between the ages of 2-6 years..

* Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

* Butterflies taste with their feet.

* A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

* It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

* Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

* Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

* Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".

* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

* Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

* The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

* The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English

   language.

* The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered

   after 38 minutes.

* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

* The word "lethologica" describes the state of not able to remember the word you want.

* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.

* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only on one row of

   the keyboard.

* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

* The dot over the letter "i" is called a "Tittle".

Tailpiece.

Had got up at 1, washed up, recited my prayers, turned off to sleep yet again to get up at a quarter to 7.

The chores and was ready by 8.

Off to Sudhakaran sir's house to participate in his wife, Sunidhi's 'sanchayanam'. She was 86, he'd loved and married her with the consent of his parents. She passed into the mist of time last Wednesday. Sudhakaran sir, had joined us to work for KEDES (Kerala Education Development Society) soon after his retirement as a Deputy Director in the KVIC, more that thirty years ago! 

To the Lulu Mall to get grocery.

Snooze-lunch-snooze.

At Poojappura for the "sargasaayaahnam" - Usha Rani's lecture on "Kaalidarunna kaumaaram". It was very nicely delivered. We'd a strength of 38 people constituting the audience!

A quiet evening thereafter.