Did you know all the rats in England all face the same direction at any given time?
Oh, come on.
No, that's right. Because they're magnetic, aren't they, rats?
They spent so long in lead lined sewage pipes, that they move with the curvature of the earth.
Hence the phrase "there's rat, and true rat. And absolute rat."
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