Groucho's Fact Hunt

[a bell maul]

...and he wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (I think).

yes, he did. It's the first movie I can recall seeing as a child

 

[a bell maul]

Banksy is apparently a member of Massive Attack.

fabulously creative band/musicians

 

[JammyP]

Prior to every season, Laurent Koscielny has his face resharpened using a LMS 5200 Mini Machine lathe. It's a fact.

Jamie Vardy uses a pencil sharpener

 

[andym78]

Banksy is apparently a member of Massive Attack.

The Banksy in Folkestone in 2014 and the one in Dover this year were done on buildings owned by the same family.

 

[Paul w]

Jamie Vardy uses a pencil sharpener
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Facts only please.

 

[hibbo'sclass]

Kieran Tierney is the only man born in the Isle of Man to play in a top professional division in Europe.

 

[summerisle]

In 1939 Hitler was nominated for the Nobel peace prize.

https://modernlegends.net/2016/06/1...-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-1939/

 

[summerisle]

Paul Eddington was a conscientious objector.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-actor-paul-eddingtons-beliefs-cast-him-as-a-conscientious-objector

 

[Black Belt Jones]

It was criminal offence to commit suicide in the UK until 1961. Hence the verb 'to commit'.

 

[Philw]

It was criminal offence to commit suicide in the UK until 1961. Hence the verb 'to commit'.

I actually kinda thought it still was, or at least if it wasn't, then it was just one of those Urban Myths.

Now that I know differently...

 

[summerisle]

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/...he-pitch-for-20-minutes-after-the-match-was-c

 

[summerisle]

The first football International in Liverpool was played at Aigburth Cricket Club.

http://liverpoolhiddenhistory.co.uk/the-football-international-at-a-cricket-ground/

 

[larbert toffee]

Kieran Tierney is the only man born in the Isle of Man to play in a top professional division in Europe.

Top European division? I thought he played in Scotland.

 

[PITA]

Top European division? I thought he played in Scotland.

Harsh.

 

[aazak]

Kieran Tierney is the only man born in the Isle of Man to play in a top professional division in Europe.

Fullback Kieran Tierney's Isle of Man is bot part of the EU, but fullback Cuco Martina's Curaçao is.