His most prized possession:

14-foot moustache

"The moustache is the symbol of pride and respect. In ancient India, a moustache meant everything. It is priceless. It's a man thing," says the proud owner of the longest moustache in the world.

Fifty-eight-year-old Ram Singh Chauhan who hails from India, was given the title of "World's Longest Moustache" by Guinness World Records, for his 14-foot long moustache he hasn't trimmed in 32 years.

Chauhan, who spends two hours a day grooming his moustache, takes pride in his facial hair, treats it like a baby.

"Once I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is to massage my moustache using coconut, olive or almond oil," he said. "I do not use a shampoo or soap, just herbals. Then, I comb them and neatly roll them up. This is the daily routine. Once a week, I do other treatments too. But all of them are natural methods. I never use commercial products," he said.

He started growing out his moustache back in 1982 when a friend who had a seven-foot-long moustache told him, "Ram Singh, it'll be good if you grow your moustache too."

True enough, growing it brought him a lot of luck because Chauhan has appeared in many Bollywood films as well as the 1983 James Bond film "Octopussy."

He also used it as an instrument of peace when he did a show for Indians and Pakistanis.

"I have even done a show on the India-Pakistan border. It was like reuniting both sides," he said.

"Growing a moustache is like taking care of a baby - you really need to nurture it," he said. "It has taken me a long, long time to get it to 14 feet. It's not been an easy task." "When I first started to grow my moustache, I did not intend to break any record. Moustaches have been a part of Rajasthani and Indian culture for centuries. This is an age-old tradition," he continued. "We are Rajputs.

It's a common practice to sport a moustache in our clan. My father also sported a flowing one. Now my son has also started growing his."

Chauhan said he also hopes that younger generations take on the Indian tradition of growing moustaches, too, just like his son.

"This is the time of the clean-shaven youngsters, everywhere you look young people are without moustaches," he said. "It is nice to grow a moustache.

It is the symbol of manhood. I would want to see every youngster grow a moustache."

Chauhan said his moustache has led him to travel the world to show it off, citing trips to Italy and Germany, where he was invited to the famed German Beard and Moustache Club.

"They gave me lot of respect. They loved my moustache. Many said they had never seen something like this before," he said.

Initially, his wife couldn't get used to her husband's obsession over his moustache, but now she treats it as another family member.

He's certainly saved tons of money on shaving cream over the years.

Butterflies drinking turtle tears, a breathtaking phenomenon

If you happen to be in the western Amazon rainforest you will be a witness to a rare and breathtaking phenomenon. It is a flock of yellow and orange butterflies trying to beat each other to land on the face of several river turtles. You might wonder whether they are trying to block the turtles going further by landing on their eyes or maybe to feed on their eyes?

Although this scene may look like an episode from a fantasy film it's 100 percent real life! It's an unusual sight - swarms of butterflies flocking at the eyes of yellow-spotted river turtles, trying to get a sip of their tears. The poor turtles keep ducking or swatting, but the butterflies persist until they've had their fill.

According to Phil Torres, a scientist at the Tambopata Research Center in Peru, the butterflies are attracted to turtle tears because the drops of liquid contain sodium, a mineral that is scarce in the western Amazon region. While turtles get plenty of sodium through their carnivorous diet, the herbivore butterflies need an extra mineral source.

Torres says that the western Amazon rainforest is over 1,000 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean - a prime source of salt. The region is also cut off from the mineral particles blown towards the west from the Andes Mountains. Most of these windblown minerals are removed from the air by the rain before they have a chance to reach the western Amazon.

These factors contribute to the extremely low levels of sodium. So the butterflies have to turn to the best source available to them, and that include turtle tears, animal urine, muddy river banks, puddles, and sweaty clothes.

Watching the butterflies trying to take a sip of the turtle's tears, we might feel whether the turtles are getting hurt by this act or not. But according to Torres it's most probably not having much of an impact on the large amphibians.

At worst, their vision is obstructed, making them more vulnerable to predators.

It is true that turtles temporarily blinded by butterflies are easier to photograph, because they aren't able to spot approaching photographers.

"The turtles have enough tears to feed the butterflies simply because the butterflies are taking so little," explained Geoff Gallice, a graduate student of entomology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who has studied the phenomenon. He further said they simply uptake salts through a process similar to absorption by placing the proboscis on the salt-laden tears and passively 'feed.'

Torres also says that it's not only butterflies, even bees have been spotted feeding on tears.

The bees appear to annoy the turtles even more, probably because of their buzzing wings. He said that these insects might be seeking other minerals in the tears, and perhaps even amino acids.

"Potentially, they could be getting other resources out of those eyeballs that we don't even know about. Basically we have to go start swabbing turtle eyeballs and see what we get," he said.

No one mans the 'Honesty Shop'

This humble coffee shop made out of bamboo sticks and coconut leaves has this sign hung outside the premises: This coffee shop situated in Batanes in the northernmost part of the Philippines has no one manning it but has attracted lot of customers including foreign tourists. Customers come to the shop eat or take away what ever they need and do the payments by putting the money into the box there.

Better known as Honesty Coffee Shop, its history traces back to 1995, when the owner, Elena Gabilo, 77, saw a group of fishermen docking their boats on the coast a few metres away from her home.

She recalls that she put a thermos bottle and some coffee and sugar outside the window to offer to anyone who wanted a drink.

She expected that people would leave her money for the goods, but to no avail.

She was not discouraged by this, though, and instead, she did this for a whole month, sometimes adding biscuits and rice outside for children to eat. She did all this thinking that as long as she helped people, it's all good.

Ms. Gabilo said, "I don't know if the customers drop the right amount.

I don't want to know if some people are cheating. But as far as I know, 98 percent of the customers pay the right amount.