Groucho's Fact Hunt

Philw · January 22, 2021

Groucho said:
Merseytravel’s bus stops are actually ski lift stops.

Eh?

wm02 · January 22, 2021

May have been brought up already, but Frederick Law Olmstead’s visit to Liverpool and a park in Birkenhead inspired his vision for Central Park in Manhattan

summerisle · January 22, 2021

Niche fact hunt thread :

summerisle · January 26, 2021

summerisle · January 27, 2021

Fact overload thread.

Methuselah · January 27, 2021

More tortoises die from diphtheria than any other disease.

(Read this is Reader's Digest about 1950's) My favourite bit of useless knowledge!

Alan Whittle · January 27, 2021

summerisle said:
Fact overload thread.

Is the second one called the fuffle?

canuckblue · January 27, 2021

summerisle said:
Fact overload thread.

I thought it was Koff.

Alan Whittle · January 27, 2021

canuckblue said:
I thought it was Koff.

That was yesterday!

Black Belt Jones · January 28, 2021

As of 2018 season, there were 106 keepers who had played 50 games or more in the prem.

Clean sheets as a percentage has a few Everton-connected players in the top 20:

#20 Thomas Myhre (33/93)
#15 Nigel Martyn (137/372)
#9 Bobby Mimms (24/61)

Any guess on who's at #98?

Ranked! The (genuinely surprising) top 20 Premier League goalkeepers by their clean sheet ratio

Every keeper who’s played 50+ games went into the brain of Huw Davies – and now we know the Premier League's meanest clean-sheet machines, from genuine legends to Fergie’s “terrible professional”

www.fourfourtwo.com