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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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The reason we stick two fingers
up to people stems from when Jonny Foreigner (usually the French) used to capture our bowmen, they would cut off said digits rendering him useless.
So the men who possessed all their fingers would stick them up at the foe to show they were able to draw the bow.
(, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 17:24, Reply)

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