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Groucho's Fact Hunt

Also, apparently, honey will never go off, or spoil due to age. Not sure how accurate this is but it's often repeated, and perfectly edible honey was found from around 2000 years ago at a Roman ruins excavation site.

Found this:
Honey mostly doesn't spoil. However, honey can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum. This isn't harmful to adults and children over one year old, whose gastrointestinal tract is developed enough to deal with the spores. But children under one are at risk for infant botulism, so honey is not for your infant.

So don't feed the baby 2000 year old honey
 
Hampden stadium witnessed its first world attendance record in 1908 and would remain the biggest arena in world football until 1950. With the completion of the north stand in 1937 Hampden was at its largest and architect Archibald Leitch calculated a holding capacity of 183,724. Some of the major attendance records are listed below although they don’t account for the many thousands of supporters who entered the stadium unofficially or, in the case of the two games in 1937, were locked outside.

1937: attendance 149,415: Home International: Scotland v England
1937: attendance 147,365: Scottish Cup Final: Celtic v Aberdeen
1970: attendance 136,505: European Cup Semi-Final: Celtic v Leeds United
 

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The Falkirk Wheel only uses 1.5kWh of energy to turn, the same amount as it would take to boil 8 household kettles,and by coincidence the architect was Tony Kettle.
It is probably one of the few millennium projects that has been a resounding success in terms of visitor numbers.
 
Some facts about Dixie Dean.

1. Dixie's pre-match 'refreshment' was a glass of sherry mixed with two raw eggs.

2. Dixie was the first player ever to wear the number 9 when. numbered jerseys were introduced for the 1933 FA Cup Final.

3. At the peak of his career, Dixie's wage was eight pounds a week.

4. On a pre-World War II Everton tour of Germany, he refused to return the Nazi salute, insisting that the rest of the team did the same.
 

Some facts about Dixie Dean.

1. Dixie's pre-match 'refreshment' was a glass of sherry mixed with two raw eggs.

2. Dixie was the first player ever to wear the number 9 when. numbered jerseys were introduced for the 1933 FA Cup Final.

3. At the peak of his career, Dixie's wage was eight pounds a week.

4. On a pre-World War II Everton tour of Germany, he refused to return the Nazi salute, insisting that the rest of the team did the same.
Strange but true (if Wikipedia is to be believed), re Dixie Dean's number 9 jersey, the Man City players were numbered 11 to 22, so there was only one number nine on the pitch (3-0 to us btw, as I recall from my Scorcher and Score wallchart).
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Dean scores !

(Matt Busby was playing for Siteh!)
 
Strange but true (if Wikipedia is to be believed), re Dixie Dean's number 9 jersey, the Man City players were numbered 11 to 22, so there was only one number nine on the pitch (3-0 to us btw, as I recall from my Scorcher and Score wallchart).
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Dean scores !

(Matt Busby was playing for Siteh!)

I might be totally incorrect, but I think that it was numbered 1-22 for the early recording cameras that were there, so a viewer would know who was on each team in black and white.
 

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