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kuzushi Posted Jul 15, 2010
90% of all the zips in the world are made by the Yoshida K.K. company, hence they have YKK embossed on them.
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MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go Posted Jul 15, 2010
Who makes the other 10%??
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swl Posted Jul 15, 2010
Lobsters suffer from thigmotaxis, meaning they aren't comfortable unless their bodies are touching something.
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swl Posted Jul 15, 2010
Ah, but do you share the physical characteristic of male lobsters having two penises?
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 15, 2010
(On another website I went by the moniker, RobLobster, but I really didn't know much about them.)
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swl Posted Jul 15, 2010
Where would I be without THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson, HarperCollins, June 2004
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 15, 2010
Yep, I read about the phototaxis thing here: http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/s/secret-life-of-lobsters.shtml
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Icy North Posted Jul 15, 2010
If you visit Padstow Harbour in Cornwall, you'll find a fascinating lobster hatchery - a very important project set up to maintain the numbers of this fascinating crustacean in its fragile ecosystem.
Opposite you'll find a couple of Rick Stein's seafood restaurants, featuring many loster specials.
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shagbark Posted Jul 15, 2010
watch it- someone might find a use for that info.
This is supposed to be useless info.
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 15, 2010
Ah, yes...
Teller's (of Penn & Teller) given name was Raymond.
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Rod Posted Jul 15, 2010
Spelt is an old kind of wheat and is spelt 'an old kind of wheat'
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 15, 2010
The record for highest recorded flight for an insect (recorded by a sticky piece of glass attached to a super-constellation plane in 1961) is 19,000 feet... the insect was a termite.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128389587
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shagbark Posted Jul 15, 2010
Bird can fly higher than bats and one vulture was found at 37,000 feet up.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jul 16, 2010
Of course they do, why would one assume otherwise?
Although, incidentally, flying squirrels do not.
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 17, 2010
Miss Piggy's "proper" name is Pigathia Lee. Pigathia comes from Piganthius, Greek for "Passion River".
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 20, 2010
R2-D2 got his name from something written on a roll of film. It's an abbreviation for "Reel 2, Dialogue (track) 2."
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