Groucho's Fact Hunt
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Nope, not saying it. 
Nope, not saying it.
tbh, It comes as no real surprise
Alanbileysfeathercut
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Mad as a hatter...is derived from hat makers that used mercury treated felt,which eventually poisoned them.
Love these -
here's one - swinging the lead...
Before the days of sonar, ships would determine the depth of the water by posting a sailor at the front of the ship with a lead weight attached to a long rope. The rope would have a knot in every fathom (6 feet). The sailor's job was to swing the weight forward into the water and, when the ship passed directly over the weight, determine the depth of the water. As retrieving the lead weight was hard work, a lazy sailor would swing the lead as if he were about to release it. He would keep swinging it until such time as he thought he was being watched and only then release it into the water. Therefore, a sailor who was swinging the lead was being lazy.
Alanbileysfeathercut
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Close ,but no cigar .
Goes back to old fairs,when the prize was a cigar..
Close but no goldfish..doesn't have the same ring.
To operate balls against the wall means to operate at full capacity.
In many aircraft, the throttle and other levers have ball-shaped grips. When a pilot is operating balls against the wall, his control levers are all pressed up against the cockpit dials. With all levers pushed as far forward as possible, the aircraft is operating at full capacity.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Bite the bullet.
Soldiers would bite a bullet because of lack of anesthetics during battle medical attention.
….’come outside and say that’ is from Parliamentary convention that allows MPs to be protected from legal proceedings for what they say in the chamber.
Alanbileysfeathercut
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Bent as a nine-bob note" (often misquoted as ten-bob) is a British idiom meaning extremely dishonest, corrupt, or fraudulent. It refers to pre-1971 UK currency, where a "ten-bob" (ten shilling) note was legitimate, but a "nine-bob" note was fictional and obviously fake.
Topical fact for us fans
Ivan Toney , linked with Everton.
His Initials are
I.B.E.T.
Who'd have thunk it
Ivan Toney , linked with Everton.
His Initials are
I.B.E.T.
Who'd have thunk it