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Today, after many hours of fascinated clicking on Wikipedia, I learned that mice may eat their own tails if they are starving. That's so sad! Don't eat your own tail. Things will get better, mouse...just hang in there.

("If you were a mouse, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?")

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Man, I had 2 good ideas for this blog today, but my attention span is not up for it. Instead I learned that the big black birds we saw on the rocks in La Jolla were Great Cormorants. They live in all kinds of different places around the world.

I also learned that chameleons don't really change their color to match their surroundings. They do change color, but they do it in response to their mood of physical state (temperature, health, etc). So, no purple chameleons with orange stripes like you see in the cartoons...unless he's in a purple with orange stripes kind of mood. Or wearing a sweater.

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Yesterday I learned what a "haruspex" is. A haruspex practices haruspicy, or the study of the entrails of dead animals that have been sacrificed. Being a haruspex is an ancient Greek thing. Also, a gross thing.

Today I learned that the population of Columbus is over 700,000. Include the metro area and you'll add a million onto that. That's a lot of people.

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Yesterday I learned that the word "stanchion" means a vertical support post or beam. Thus, if one were to use this word in reference to those little stands and ropes they use to control lines (think of the ticket line at the Easton movies), one would be wrong. You could argue that the little vertical posts that connect the ropes are stanchions, but they aren't really being used to support anything (such as a porch, a ceiling, or a railing) in the correct sense. So suck on that, snooty post-it writers of the world.

Today I learned that that sound I thought was a mourning dove really is a mourning dove. That might seem like lame learnings to you, but you try looking that shit up on the internet. Googling "woo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo" probably sets of some kind of national security alarm for crazy.

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Yesterday I learned how bumper cars work. I'm pretty tired, you can look it up yourself if you're curious. I don't remember what all I looked at.

Today I learned about cryptozoology and some awesome imaginary/extinct/super-rare animals that you can learn about here. Some of that shit that sounds totally crazy, you can bet those mofos are or were living out there deep in the jungle our way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, and we're all like "yeah, sure, THAT'S a real thing." But you know some of them are.