Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Black Belt Jones]

The 1997 Albanian civil war was sparked by collapsing pyramid schemes - two thirds of the population had invested and took to the streets.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Philw]

The 1997 Albanian civil war was sparked by collapsing pyramid schemes - two thirds of the population had invested and took to the streets.

@Kev The Rat ...

 

[larbert toffee]

The 1997 Albanian civil war was sparked by collapsing pyramid schemes - two thirds of the population had invested and took to the streets.

It required Norman Wisdom to restore law and order.

 

[WA Toffee]

the equatorial circumference (ie 0 degrees latitude) of Earth is about 24,900 miles(40,070 km). However, from pole-to-pole — the meridional circumference — Earth is only 24,812 miles(39,931 km) around. This shape, caused by the flattening at the poles, is called an oblate spheroid.

This shape is a result of the flattening of the poles, not caused by it.

 

[WA Toffee]

Singapore airlines flight sq21 and sq22 (singapore to newark) was the longest commercial flight in the world, and will reclaim the title when it resumes later this year.
Not only that, it is also very unusual in that no matter whether you are flying Newark to Singapore or Singapore to Newark, you will fly the same direction (North, then south)

 

[deipnosophist]

Freudian slip

 

[deipnosophist]

This shape is a result of the flattening of the poles, not caused by it.

The equatorial bulge results from centrifugal forces exerted by the Earth’s rotation about its axis

 

[WA Toffee]

The equatorial bulge results from centrifugal forces exerted by the Earth’s rotation about its axis

Yes it does

 

[summerisle]

 

[Tramps_mate]

That one is quite unbelievable!!

 

[canuckblue]

the equatorial circumference (ie 0 degrees latitude) of Earth is about 24,900 miles(40,070 km). However, from pole-to-pole — the meridional circumference — Earth is only 24,812 miles(39,931 km) around. This shape, caused by the flattening at the poles, is called an oblate spheroid.

So is Ashley Williams.

 

[deipnosophist]

So is Ashley Williams.

...he's more an obese spheroid

 

[Methuselah]

The only word in the English language for which there is no spelling.

The farmer was in the field SOWING his seeds.
His wife was in the farmhouse SEWING buttons on his shirt.
In fact, they were both S***** ?

 

[4737carlin]

Watched a documentary about digging in Belgium's battlefields last night, apparently it's illegal to dig a hole in Belgium deeper then 40cm without permission