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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Double basses and platypusesDouble bass strings are tuned in 4ths because, what with the instrument being so bloody big, the distance between notes a 4th apart is too far to stretch.
Also, platypuses (that's the correct plural) don't have similar reproductive organs to humans, they're a particular subclass of mammals called monotremes (meaning "one hole") which is essentially what they have.
(, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 3:06, Reply)
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