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All of which is utter nonsense because as we all know the Earth is flat.
It's called "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
You're twice as likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark
http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/08/how-are-sharks-less-dangerous-than-vending-machines-an-exercise-in-conditional-risk/The Egyptians were the first to have a word for blue, as they were the only civilisation that could produce the colour in dyes or paint.
It's not known whether people could even see the colour blue - there was an experiment with the Himba tribe in Namibia, who have no word for blue, where they showed them loads of green squares and one obviously blue square, and they could not tell which one was blue.
The comedian Dave Gorman once had an idea for a novel called Hugh's Hew, whereby Hugh discovered a new colour but was unable to describe it to people as they had no concept of the colour this it's impossible to describe it (if you've seen/read his Googlewhack adventure you'll have heard him on about this). Perhaps this is what happened with blue?
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Actually, it isn't a "duck-billed platypus", it's simply Platypus. There is only one species (though there were quite a few others in the past). It is actually a spur, not a claw. By the way, the correct plural is "Platypuses", not "platypii". People often get that wrong. There are three other mammals which can make their own custard - well, which lay eggs and produce milk. They are the Short-beaked Echidna (moderately common in most of Australia) and two other echidna species found only in New Guinea.
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Curiously enough, nobody knows what purpose the spur serves. The Platypus is reasonably well-studied but it remains a rather mysterious little creature. They are generally very shy and quite hard to see. If you spend a lot of time in the bush, you might see one a few times a year (or might not). Most people never see one in the wild. In Tasmania, they are often less shy - possibly because there are no foxes here, but one again, no-one really knows why. I took this picture 20 metres from my back door and see this one often. He doesn't seem to mind me in the least.
... I wouldn't be in the least surprised.
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