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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more annoyanceAnd i feel compelled to debunk this banana rubbish: the plant they grow on is a shrub, not a tree (as it doesn't have a woody stem), but the fruit is still a fruit, dammit! Strawberries aren't (proper) fruits, however (seeds are on the outside, and they're formed from the wrong bit of the flower), but raspberries (is that the only word with a p followed immeditaely by a b?) are, and so are bananas and tomatoes and cucumbers and pumpkins and all kinds of other things. It doesn't have to grow on a tree to be a fruit.
*edit* And Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flushing toilet, he merely updated (and popularised) it; and moreover, his name was a coincidence, since the word "crap" had been around long before.
(, Wed 23 Mar 2005, 1:37, Reply)
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