Groucho's Fact Hunt
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
For that awkward silence when relatives visit.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
tungetango
Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?
William Graham from Darlington,in 1854 got the title "Norway's first train driver/locomotive engineer". He had been working as a train driver in England for several years. in 1854 he moved over with his wife and seven kids. He contributed building the first official railway between Oslo and Eidsvoll and actually driving the locomotive.
He is buried in a cemetery in Oslo.
He is buried in a cemetery in Oslo.
The Parliamentary seat of Liverpool Exchange (Est. 1885 - abolished 1974) had 12 MPs only 2 were Labour
Yeah, but TBF Bessie Braddock was one of them and she held the seat for 25 years through 7 elections lol
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Labour only fielded a candidate from 1929 ; from 1945 onwards solidly Labour, Bessie Braddock being one of the two MP's elected.
Mine is a fact.
Those quoted are also facts.
...we're in the right thread lids - keep em coming
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Aah, but you posted it as a strange fact, but it wasn't that strange.
Brendan Janus
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) ran for 26 episodes !
Not so much a strange fact, more a reminder, if required, that things we might think have always been 'So' for ever and a day, were, in fact - 'not so'
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Now you know.
The binman chronicles
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Now you know.
That's got to be a joke surely? You are poor and from the ghetto and you only have one strand of spaghetti for your tea. Therefore Spa-ghetto.
Edit. Just seen it is bonafide. Well I never.