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Groucho's Fact Hunt
- Thread starter Groucho
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I think you're right.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
The lineage of 95% of contemporary thoroughbred racing horses can be traced back to just one horse 300 years ago, who sired them all. This was an arabian horse bought over to England and to sire in Ireland. He may be the most valuable figure in the history of mankind (depending on how you define and calculate value).
When Google says there are xx million results, there aren't really. Not even close. In fact Google is incapable of ever showing you more than 999 individual results.
German beer has been betraying its famous purity law since 1968, when it allowed breweries to use chemically-extracted traces of hop in place of actual real hops. Nowadays only 3 main breweries own over 90% of all German beer, making a truly pure German beer hard to find. This hasn't stopped the marketing speak on the packaging, which continues to claim that their particular Pils is "brewed under the purity law of 1516". Perhaps surprisingly, the most mainstream German beer of all, Becks, continue in the correct tradition of only using natural hops.
The first recognisably-techno track (4/4 beat with synth stabs and hi-hats all in repetitive hypnotic rhythm) was created in the early-60's by a posh-sounding Surrey lady with bad teeth who also produced the famous woo-wee-woo signature sound of Doctor Who.
The conceptual idea of what most of us know as Sherlock's Mind Palace is as old as the hills. Relatively modern (and extensive) interpretations can be found in works as diverse as Timothy Leary's Design for Dying, Ron Hubbard's Dianetics and Stephen King's Dreamcatcher.
When Google says there are xx million results, there aren't really. Not even close. In fact Google is incapable of ever showing you more than 999 individual results.
German beer has been betraying its famous purity law since 1968, when it allowed breweries to use chemically-extracted traces of hop in place of actual real hops. Nowadays only 3 main breweries own over 90% of all German beer, making a truly pure German beer hard to find. This hasn't stopped the marketing speak on the packaging, which continues to claim that their particular Pils is "brewed under the purity law of 1516". Perhaps surprisingly, the most mainstream German beer of all, Becks, continue in the correct tradition of only using natural hops.
The first recognisably-techno track (4/4 beat with synth stabs and hi-hats all in repetitive hypnotic rhythm) was created in the early-60's by a posh-sounding Surrey lady with bad teeth who also produced the famous woo-wee-woo signature sound of Doctor Who.
The conceptual idea of what most of us know as Sherlock's Mind Palace is as old as the hills. Relatively modern (and extensive) interpretations can be found in works as diverse as Timothy Leary's Design for Dying, Ron Hubbard's Dianetics and Stephen King's Dreamcatcher.
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
The Unobstructed View
The length of the coastline of Great Britain and it's Islands (19,491 miles) is longer than the coastline of Australia (16,000), Canada has the Worlds longest coastline (152,100 miles).
That's amazing.
dead_soft
Player Valuation: £35m
The current manager of the current FA Cup holders of England is, however.
In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on elastic bands just to hold all their cash.
There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
A 1913 New York Times article on portmanteaus includes the word "alcoholiday," which describes leisure time spent drinking.
There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
A 1913 New York Times article on portmanteaus includes the word "alcoholiday," which describes leisure time spent drinking.
FTY
Player Valuation: £80m
Uwe Rossler?
Alfred Kinsey, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), could insert a toothbrush into his penis, bristle-end first.
A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops.
A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Alfred Kinsey, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), could insert a toothbrush into his penis, bristle-end first.
A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops.
But why? The toothbrush bit I mean.