Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

A pilot episode is so called because, its first aired.

 

[Groucho]

Is it secret?

No

 

[BNJ1878]

No

You're right.

I've just done a search for Groucho and Cajun and there it is.

Will give it a whirl in the days ahead.

 

[Kurt.]

Woman never apologise…. Fact.

They just sleep naked and let you decide if you’re still angry with them.

 

[summerisle]

Explains a lot.

 

[Kurt.]

Explains a lot.

Loves a bit of blood … allegedly

 

[Eggs]

….the Liver Birds were constructed by a company called Bromsgrove Guild, who also built the Buckingham Palace gates;

 

[Eggs]

….the phrase in a tragedy at sea, ‘women and children first’ is called The Birkenhead Drill.

In the early 1850s the BritishArmy were involved in an incursion in Cape Colony, S Africa. A ship called The Birkenhead was sent to deliver men and supplies but disaster struck on 25th Feb 1852 off the African coast. With about 630 on board, including women and children the ship hit rocks and was doomed. The women and children were all saved in the 3 lifeboats, the soldiers were left to jump into the sea with great loss of life;

 

[Brendan Janus]

A fact is roads are full of loons, we need more speed cameras fixed or hand held !!

 

[Brendan Janus]

Ban them for doing 50 in a 30, menaces !!

 

[Eggs]

….Leasowe Lighthouse, 1763, is the oldest surviving lighthouse in Britain;

 

[Eggs]

 

[Rich1878]

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A Norwegian vessel? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess where they were heading

 

[Groucho]

On January 13, 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on movie theaters. The Emoji Movie was the first movie publicly shown in the country.

Having seen the film I can’t help but wonder if they were tempted to immediately reinstate the ban.

 

[trueblue84]

Nicolas cage's real name is Nicolas Kim Coppola, part of the Coppola film dynasty.