Are you aware?

* Birds don't urinate.

* Horses and cows can easily sleep while standing up.

* The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

* Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.

* Despite the white, fluffy appearance of the Polar Bear's fur, it actually has black skin.

* The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.

* For every human in the world there are one million ants.

* A small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!

* Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.

* A honeybee has two stomachs - one for honey, one for food.

* Elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a car.

* Blue whales are the largest creature to ever roam the earth.

* A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.

* When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid frim other dolphins, which try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.

* A snail can sleep for up to 3 years.

* The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106 mph (Peregrine falcon's speed is actually 390 km/hr or 108 mph).

* A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

* The leech has 32 brains. The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live for sixteen years and longer.

* Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of diseases including cancer.

* A mosquito's proboscis (piercing needle) has 47 sharp edges on its tip to help it cut skin and even protective layers of clothing.

* The human brain has memory space of over 2.5 Million Petabytes which is 2,500,500 Gigabytes.

My take

Just goes to show as to how little we know about the environment around us!

Tailpiece.

Got up at 6, the chores and was ready by a half past 9.

CP Vijayan, the Security Head of the YMall at Thripprayar came by to invite me for being the chief guest at their Republic Day functions.

Lekha helped me wash down our Chevy in the evening.