Useless InformationDid 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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chthonic, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 14:48)
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In 1867...Lord Kelvin put forward a theory that atoms are knotted loops in the aether (that's the stuff that pervaded the universe carrying light around, but no-one could find, before Einstein came up with wave-partcle duality), with larger atoms being more complicated knots.
The famous "cuckoo clock" line in The Third Man was added by Orson Welles, which really pissed off scriptwriter Graham Greene.
A groat was a coin worth four old pence.
Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest whose surname was two syllables (Eve-rest).
That Cillit Bang advert bit where they put the sodium in the cleaner is bollocks. Anyone who paid attention in chemistry at school will know that sodium fizzes like that if you drop it in plain water.
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Bagpuss, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 12:02,
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