Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Zezti]

A Vineyard in South Africa hires 1000 ducks to eat snails.

 

[Eggs]

...repeating this from another thread but worth capturing here;

Everton is derived from the Saxon word 'eofor' meaning 'wild boar that lives in forests'.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Captain Barnacles, familiar to parents of young kids as the erstwhile leader of the Octonauts, is voiced by Michael from series 2/3 of Alan Partridge.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

...repeating this from another thread but worth capturing here;

Everton is derived from the Saxon word 'eofor' meaning 'wild boar that lives in forests'.

C'MON THE WILD BOAR THE LIVES IN FORESTS....TON, DEEZER SH---

 

[Fringe]

Captain Barnacles, familiar to parents of young kids as the erstwhile leader of the Octonauts, is voiced by Michael from series 2/3 of Alan Partridge.

Believe he voices the Meerkats from the adverts also.

 

[Bluesaint]

A Vineyard in South Africa hires 1000 ducks to eat snails.

Wonder how much an hour they're on and do they get alternate weekends off?

 

[degsy]

BBC Radio 4 long wave, which transmits on the 198 kilohertz frequency, relies on ageing transmitter equipment that uses a pair of the valves – no longer manufactured, to function.
The 198Kilo Hertz transmitter (1500metres in old money) uses 2, 1metre high Thermionic Valves. These Valves, which can last from 1 year to 10 years (pot luck on the quality as they are donkeys years old)
The BBC has bought up the last ten in existence.
Nobody make them any more and haven't for years, thus the skills and technology has been lost. The BBC tried to get some made in Germany, but they couldn't Guarantee to match the quality of the old ones.

 

[KaiserEFC]

The Hyoid bone is the only bone not connected to another bone in the body

 

[The Cowboy]

Captain Barnacles, familiar to parents of young kids as the erstwhile leader of the Octonauts, is voiced by Michael from series 2/3 of Alan Partridge.

Love it!

 

[The Cowboy]

Captain Barnacles, familiar to parents of young kids as the erstwhile leader of the Octonauts, is voiced by Michael from series 2/3 of Alan Partridge.

Love it!

 

[ToffeeDoug]

...repeating this from another thread but worth capturing here;

Everton is derived from the Saxon word 'eofor' meaning 'wild boar that lives in forests'.

I thought it was something like E'Ver'Ton in Saxon times, meaning over/above the town because it was on a hill.

 

[Eggs]

I thought it was something like E'Ver'Ton in Saxon times, meaning over/above the town because it was on a hill.

....just going off Wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everton,_Liverpool

 

[summerisle]

Bruce Lee won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha-Cha finance competition in 1958. And if you don't believe me :

 

[The Cowboy]

Bruce Lee won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha-Cha finance competition in 1958. And if you don't believe me :

Don't just dance...feeeeel

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

The Molotov cocktail and Soviet Russia.

The Molotov cocktail is named after Vyacheslav Molotov (Best known as the Soviet foreign Minister 1939-49). The name was first coined by Finnish forces during the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, although the concept/initial deployment of the weapon was before then.

The Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the 'Molotov cocktail , cheekily attributing them as: "a drink to go with the food".

Molotov loathed the name, particularly as the term became eponymous.

It was first used against Soviet T-26 tanks of the international brigade by Spanish nationalist forces, during the Spanish civil war.