Groucho's Fact Hunt

[larbert toffee]

Err Hercules wasn't it?

Yes just checked
*reminds self not to join quiz team with @larbert toffee

lollol You are so right mate remind me to team up in a quiz with you #Brainfart.

 

[degsy]

Harold's first name is Albert - his full name is Albert Harold Kitchener Steptoe.

Obvs used his 2nd name to avoid confusion - simple.

 

[deipnosophist]

Thank you all to the GOTers lending me edification toward the 'Steptoe and Son' generational gig.

The team we support might betray average intelligence, but its supporters display anything but...

 

[Rsoles]

Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.

Then put oil in your printer instead then

 

[Rsoles]

Then put oil in your printer instead then

It's all good if it's a canon

 

[summerisle]

Alexander the Great kept his red hair shiny by washing it with saffron. He also enjoyed drinking games with his soldiers, one of which ended in the death of 42 men.

 

[McBain]

Thunderstorms can kill you and not in the way you'd probably imagine.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...thunderstorm-asthma-death-toll-rises-to-eight

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Marcel Duchamp, the father of modern art, hung a geometry text book on a washing line oustide his sister's appartment in Paris. To teach it the facts of life - known as the 'unhappy readymade'
Despite being one of, if not the most, influential artist of the twentieth century, Duchamp spent the majority of his life playing chess. From his mid-30s onwards he stepped away from the art world and concentrated on chess.

 

[Rsoles]

Alexander the Great kept his red hair shiny by washing it with saffron. He also enjoyed drinking games with his soldiers, one of which ended in the death of 42 men.

Was saffron his girlfriend

 

[Tramps_mate]

i did, and i still don't believe it. Don't believe that we perceive touch

You mean you don't understand it...

 

[Tramps_mate]

Switzerland has compulsory military service for all men - 95% of it's army, or militia, is conscripted. Soldiers get to take their guns home with them, although ammunition is not permitted (used to be).

Yeah, I remember reading that one that all Swiss men own a gun..

 

[Bluesaint]

Yeah, I remember reading that one that all Swiss men own a gun..

And that Switzerland has the worlds highest murder rate by percentage of its population.

 

[Rsoles]

Yeah, I remember reading that one that all Swiss men own a gun..

And an army knife as well

 

[Philw]

In honour of the Happy Days thread, today I learned that Henry Winkler was dyslexic, and in 2011 was given an OBE in recognition of the star's services to children with dyslexia and special educational needs.

 

[larbert toffee]

In honour of the Happy Days thread, today I learned that Henry Winkler was dyslexic, and in 2011 was given an OBE in recognition of the star's services to children with dyslexia and special educational needs.

Why did they make dyslexia such a difficult word to spell?