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Did you know that crabs wee through their eyes? That maidenhair moss is so called because Anglo-saxons thought it looked like pubes? That Albanians have 17 different words for moustache? Astound us with your utterly useless and obscure knowledge.

(, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 14:48)
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Tips
In olden times, when you had to wait to be seated in a restaurant you could put money into box labelled "To Insure Prompt Service" and join a quicker queue. Hence "tips"

This was in the US I believe, hence the use of insure where right thinking people would put "ensure".

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(, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 17:01, Reply)

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