Discoveries this week...
Things that I have discovered this week:
- A "demonym" is the word which describes the inhabitants of a country. I.e. "English" is the demonym for England.
- Some snails have "love darts", which are non-projectile organs which stab other snails during the passage of sperm, though they are not related directly with impregnation. Of course, snails are hermaphroditic.
- Whoopi Goldberg has no eyebrows.
- If you threaten a car with the garage, it fixes itself.
- In the congo, brickettes are a convenient environmental fuel for burning, as an alternative to charcoal. They are made from old paper and sawdust, and are made by mixing these ingredients with water, and then compressing them in a tube to form a doughnut shape. And very effective they are too (by all accounts).
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1 comment:
It's probably a bit disturbing I already knew that about the snails.
Also, I finally realised what you were saying before about the spider on my blog - the picture of the *giant* spider was from Wikipedia, but the one that you had started talking to me about (which I failed to realise, being an intermittent moron) - yes, I did take that one. Whoops.
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