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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Nursery RhymesRing-a-ring-a-roses has already been linked to the bubonic plague on here (although some dispute that), so I thought I'd add some other nursery rhyme 'facts'.
Jack & Jill Went Up the Hill has been linked to the beheading of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and also to pre-marital sex.
Pop Goes the Weasel refers to blowing your money (on food - half a pound of tuppeny rice, and drink - in and out the Eagle) and having to pawn your sunday best (weasal and stoat - coat).
Both Three Blind Mice and Mary Mary Quite Contrary refer to Mary I.
Who Killed Cock Robin refers to Robin Hood.
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Silva, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:13,
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