Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Nobby Nobbs]

If you earned $180,000 everyday since the day Christ was born until right now you still wouldn’t be as rich as Jeff Bezos.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

The phrase “ back to square one” originated from when football was on the radio before TV, the pitch was divided up so it can be followed easier by the listener, if the ball was back in the goalkeepers box you would hear “ back to square one”.

 

[Tipp blue]

If you earned $180,000 everyday since the day Christ was born until right now you still wouldn’t be as rich as Jeff Bezos.

I read this and taught this has got to be BS, but the maths works out, you'd have just over 132 billion, Jeff has 192 billion, insane amount of money.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

I read this and taught this has got to be BS, but the maths works out, you'd have just over 132 billion, Jeff has 192 billion, insane amount of money.

I’m glad someone done the maths when I posted it I thought I’d get laughed off the forum.

 

[davep]

I read this and taught this has got to be BS, but the maths works out, you'd have just over 132 billion, Jeff has 192 billion, insane amount of money.

Same. How on earth do you even make that much money!!

And also not even be the richest person who ever lived!

 

[summerisle]

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC; Dakota: Bdemayaṭo Oyate) is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe of Mdewakanton Dakota people, located southwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, within parts of the cities of Prior Lake and Shakopee in Scott County, Minnesota. Mdewakanton, pronounced Mid-ah-wah-kah-ton, means "dwellers at the spirit waters."

The tribe owns and operates Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Little Six Casino, and a number of other enterprises. While Scott County is largely rural, it is located within the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. This proximity to a large customer base makes the casino profitable: each member of the tribe receives a payout of around $1 million per year (as of 2012), .... which is nice.

 

[davep]

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC; Dakota: Bdemayaṭo Oyate) is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe of Mdewakanton Dakota people, located southwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, within parts of the cities of Prior Lake and Shakopee in Scott County, Minnesota. Mdewakanton, pronounced Mid-ah-wah-kah-ton, means "dwellers at the spirit waters."

The tribe owns and operates Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Little Six Casino, and a number of other enterprises. While Scott County is largely rural, it is located within the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. This proximity to a large customer base makes the casino profitable: each member of the tribe receives a payout of around $1 million per year (as of 2012), .... which is nice.

How do I join?

 

[Eggs]

….there have been 56 no1s by Liverpool artists;

 

[MaxLatch]

….there have been 56 no1s by Liverpool artists;

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I would have expected more!

 

[MaxLatch]

The father of Police drummer Stewart Copeland was a CIA agent

 

[summerisle]

 

[canuckblue]

How do I join?

You have to make a reservation.

 

[degsy]

I’m glad someone done the maths when I posted it I thought I’d get laughed off the forum.

Nah, sad thing is it was daft enough to be true - and it is

 

[Tramps_mate]

A penny loose was still a thing in the 60s

…yep, I remember folk asking for a ‘loosey’ in the newsagents.

Our newsagents by our school sold them to us in the 90's!!

We were like 13-14.. 1 cig and 1 match. 10p!! haha

 

[Toffe3m4n]

….there have been 56 no1s by Liverpool artists;

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