Groucho's Fact Hunt

[DualityNSNO]

You can only fold paper in half 8 times mate

Didn't want to be off-topic in the original thread, so - no, that's not true. It's about 11 or 12, but it is very much possible that you can go past 12, theoretically...
There's a formula for it as well, developed by Britney Gallivan, which is found in that same link.

 

[glorydaze]

Goodison Park cost £8000 to build

 

[DualityNSNO]

Goodison Park cost £8000 to build

Nice one mate!

Some quick research shows that this would be between £1m and £3m today (depending on a thousand factors that I'm not good at understanding very well).

 

[roydo]

Goodison Park cost £8000 to build

Probably worth about that now....

 

[Bilko]

unicorns are mentioned nine times in the bible

 

[Groucho]

unicorns are mentioned nine times in the bible

Must've missed Noah's boat.....

 

[DualityNSNO]

Must've missed Noah's boat.....

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2010/20100628.htm

 

[Groucho]

You never know chaps, a Mark Thomas moment may happen again.

To ignore football for the night now, let's have facts;

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

The adult human has two to nine pounds of bacteria in his or her body.

There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

 

[daza_1973]

Lake Baikal in Russia has the greatest volume of freshwater in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.

 

[FTY]

YCleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

That's amazing.

 

[Groucho]

The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" fits perfectly over the music to Mavin Gaye's "What's Goin' On". Enjoy.

 

[glorydaze]

The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" fits perfectly over the music to Mavin Gaye's "What's Goin' On". Enjoy.

That is amazing and a good version

 

[DualityNSNO]

Saw someone use it again the other day, so here:
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition", while we all know it's used for LOLS, is a fantastically wrong statement.

In fact, everyone expected them - the Spanish Inquisition gave a 30 day notice before arriving!

 

[Tubey]

Saw someone use it again the other day, so here:
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition", while we all know it's used for LOLS, is a fantastically wrong statement.

In fact, everyone expected them - the Spanish Inquisition gave a 30 day notice before arriving!

Stop ruining British comedy with your foreign logic, you Bulgarian brute.

 

[FTY]

What does ''noone expects the Spanish Inquisition'' mean leds?