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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.

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The Dismal Science
Scottish historian, Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase "dismal science", not in relation to Malthus' population doctrine as commonly believed, but in relation to American slavery and the typical economic assumption of treating everybody as equals.

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