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Angel [any]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months ago

What's something that most people don't know?

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What's something that most people don't know?

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Angel [any]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months ago
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    The little tips on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

    Their true purpose is sinister

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      Sinister comes from the Latin for “left”

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        Dexterity comes from the Latin word for “right”

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      the little individual bips in raspberries/blackberries or other cluster berries are called druplets

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      We used to cut them off, push a pin through them and fluff out the cut end. Put them in a straw and you have a little blowgun :)

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      Phineas and Ferb type beat

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      Their true purpose is sinister

      So is that fireman guitar in another comment

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