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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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A common Turkish name is, I'm told, "Farty".

An experiement involving standing waves (physics stuff, for the uninitiated) involves a piece of aparatus called Kundt's Dust Tube. Say it out loud.


In response to the previous answer, this is known as the Correalis Effect (spelling?) and is more affected by the shape of the plughole and its surroundings...
(Fackin' know it all, I am)

Also, who exactly goes around looking at foetus' nadgers to "see whether they're the same or not"? Eh?
(, Sat 19 Mar 2005, 23:50, Reply)

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