Trivia.

[Catherine]

I never eat bananas and I never get bitten by mosquitos. 

I somehow wasn't thinking about the water in the clouds. They look so light and fluffy that I tend to think of them as air. I get rained on enough to know better, but I never thought of clouds as having weight.

I love the word contronym. It is one of those cool words that should have existed and it turns out it does.

Sweden does set an example for the rest of us. We can all do better with our garbage. Sweden is already doing better.
Most of what I put out is recycling and organic waste for composting. I only put out garbage when a bag is filled and that isn't once a month. If I have useful items I put them out nicely so other people can help themselves. We are good about that in Toronto. If you have useable things you put them out on the sidewalk in a box and people will help themselves. People have built little book boxes on poles so they can put out books to be shared. 


I will try to give you some less useful trivia.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles.

In the  Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Slugs have 4 noses.

So the challenge is to find any part of that list that is useful to you.