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GRALISTAIR
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Lennon?
Gloster
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Correct, although he may still have called himself David Jones. It was all a publicity stunt.
To you to comb through the sources for a new question.
DaleCooper
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Thank you.
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Elysia marginata is a marine gastropod. What unusual behaviour is thought to be its way of eliminating parasites.
Absorption?
xotGD
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Does it turn itself inside out?
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xotGD
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Gives them an electric shock?
DaleCooper
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It doesn't do that.
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Does it jump out of the water?
DaleCooper
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No, it doesn't jump.
John Griffiths
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Burrows into seabed (or riverbed) sand/silt/mud/etc?
Loppylugs
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Does it commit suicide ?
DaleCooper
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It doesn't do that.
That would be a Pyrrhic victory although the actual behaviour is almost as drastic.
Peterthegreat
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Loses it's head.
DaleCooper
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That is essentially correct. In fact the creatures head detaches from its body (which contains its heart and other ^vital" organs) and carries on moving and feeding, eventually growing a whole new body. Sadly the discarded body does not survive. Your turn...
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DaleCooper
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Loses its body, see above.
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Concorde - France insisted on the e, the UK wanted to spell it Concord.
Precisely. It started as everyone happy with Concorde, then Charles de Gaulle slighted Macmillian so he dropped the e, then Tony Benn brought it back unilaterally which caused fury at home for conceding to the French.
You know, standard Anglo-French relations since time immemorial.
You know, standard Anglo-French relations since time immemorial.
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Why is the former highest point in Sweden no longer the highest point in Sweden?
Peterthegreat
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Because it is no longer in Sweden?
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Boundary has been redrawn?
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Well, it used to be Kebnekaise. Perhaps melting snow has revealed that somewhere else is actually higher.
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No
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Melting ice, rather than snow, but yes:
The Kebnekaise massif, which is part of the Scandinavian mountain range, has two main peaks. The glaciated southern peak used to be the highest at 2,120 metres above sea level, but has shrunk by 24 meters during the last 50 years, making the northern icefree peak at 2,096.8 metres the highest.
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Gloster
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Kiruna is a town in northern Sweden. What movement started there in 2014?
Peterthegreat
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School strike?
DaleCooper
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Bowel?