Someone in Eastern Europe (or perhaps an interested party with an unusual fetish for Romanian Google) entered the search string 10 things you didn’t know about pet shop boys and somehow found their way to VeryPSB.com.

I suppose I should provide such a thing at this time, no?

1. Neil Tennant is a eighth-level master of the Five Animal Style school of kung-fu. Chris Lowe has broken three ribs in sparring sessions with the deceptively powerful singer.

2. The Chris Lowe that Pet Shop Boys fans have seen for years is a actually clever con job performed by the band. The real Chris Lowe lives and works under the name of Andrew Willoughby, an accounts manager at HSBC and has a wife and four children that occupy most of his time outside of the studio. The man filling his role in the band in personal appearances, tours and televised appearances has been doing the job for over 20 years.

3. “Hedonism,” from the soundtrack to Closer To Heaven contains the mythical brown note. The track must be heard at a volume of 180 decibels to generate this effect, as a London audience who were paid a significant amount of compensation, would testify to if it weren’t for the binding nature of the agreements they had signed.

4. Frequent live backup vocalist Sylvia Mason-James was born Sylvester Mason-James.

5. Neil Tennant named his terrier after Backstreet Boys vocalist Kevin Richardson.

6. In 1997, Chris Lowe shaved 95% of his body hair off completely. Only 30% has grown back, and not where you’d expect.

7. Pete Gleadall? Convicted of homicide in the early 90s. He was only able to escape jail after Birmingham police discovered some conveniently placed “DNA samples” that were missed during the initial 5 months of the investigation. The samples were provided by Cicero, who really needed the 30 quid.

8. Frequent Pet Shop Boys writer Chris Heath is forced to hand each piece of writing he does on the band over to Tennant, who sends it back to him the next morning via courier with red editor’s marks and a sticker indicating if the material was “Excellent,” “Well Done,” “Needs More Work,” or “Absolutely Dire.”

9. Neil Tennant’s favorite piece of music is Vaughn Williams’s “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,” as performed by the Sinfonia of London, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli.

10. Chris Lowe’s favorite piece of music is “Paninaro” by Pet Shop Boys.