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    On a chef's hat, the 100 folds of the toque are said to represent the many different ways a chef knows to cook an egg.
     
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    Milling

    The damsel is a spindle that strikes the shoe to make grain drop into the eye of the millstones. There's a strap that runs across the hopper and is held down by the weight of the grain. When the grain runs out, the strap springs up and causes a bell to ring each time the damsel strikes the shoe. The ringing bell is called a 'damsel in distress' and the miller would have a bell with a different ring on each hopper so that he knew which grain had run out.
     
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    Kangaroo's have three vaginas.

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