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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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In the Gulf of Mexico
and other tropical waters, lives a type of parasitic barnacle which makes its home on a crab's shell. It eventually drills its way into the crab's brain and affects the nervous system in such a way that it eventually CONTROLS THE CRAB!

There are also worms that eat the tongues of fishes and then attach themselves to the tongue-stumps and get first dibs on their host's lunchy-snacks.
(, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:54, Reply)

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