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Groucho's Fact Hunt
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deipnosophist
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Lincoln was shot in Ford's theatre
Whistlin' Dixie
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What's creepier is the author's spelling of 'assisnated'
And wtf's an 'assinator'? Sounds like the title of a grumble flick
Oh, and Lee Harvey Oswald & John Wilkes Booth both contain 15 letters #Illuminati
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Well spotted.
Fun fact, particularly for Yanks, foreigners, or the geographically challenged...
NBC mapped out the home locations of all the prem clubs, and West Ham is actually the easternmost club in Ingerland. EAST HAM!
NBC mapped out the home locations of all the prem clubs, and West Ham is actually the easternmost club in Ingerland. EAST HAM!
That's awesome!
Black Belt Jones
Player Valuation: £25m
What's the furthest distance from a tarmac road in the UK?
A mere 7 miles....a place in Fisherfield in NW Scotland.
[Soz if bin dun, this thread is long!]
A mere 7 miles....a place in Fisherfield in NW Scotland.
[Soz if bin dun, this thread is long!]
Black Belt Jones
Player Valuation: £25m
Water is an amazing molecule - just listing its unique properties would take pages. Two of the most important, however, are its massive heat capacity - the second largest of any simple molecule (after ammonia), and the fact that solid water is less dense than liquid water [ice floats].
Without those two features, there would be no life on earth.
Without those two features, there would be no life on earth.
Wow
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
They'll live long enough to see us win the Treble.
Not really, it falls down in the beginning.
If you really look for coincidences you can find them between any two historical figures - Attila the Hun was leader of the Huns from 445 to 453; Harry S. Truman was leader of America from 1945 to 1953. Both took office after the death of the previous leader and both were succeeded by military leaders; etc.
It's a really odd type of confirmation bias anyway (would be keeping with the theme of this thread if I could remember it...). It can also be made about other events/objects of choice, as long as you actually look really hard for the "similarities" - "Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan", a novel by Morgan Robertson, 'succesfully predicts' the events of the Titanic, 14 years earlier - a ship named "The Titan" crashes into an iceberg and sinks. Except the whole things overlooks the fact that Titan and Titanic are both different names, for one, even if they are similar. The Titan was significantly smaller, and also a sail-ship, whereas the Titanic had steam engines and was massive; when the Titan crashes a large part of the crew survives and has to survive in extreme conditions (either cannibalising other survivors or seals or something, I'm writing this from memory, soz abar that) and several actually live on; the ships also crash in pretty different parts of the world, and so on.
The same phenomenon can be observed with people who think Nostradamus was amazingly, scarily accurate with his predictions - he's got a few things vaguely right but, overall, I think statistically his successful prediction ratio is something like 3% or something, as he made several hundred/"early" thousand and got a double-digit number right.
Full list of things wrong with the Lincoln/Kennedy 'similarities', if anyone is arsed - http://www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp . I don't want to copy it because it's ridiculously long lol
