Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Groucho]

The original OS maps' sea level reading used to be specifically the sea level at Liverpool.

 

[The Cowboy]

Calling this in; It's only 98m. St Pauls Cathedral is 111m and it was the biggest building in London until the post office tower in 1967

A quick look at wiki says it was the tallest storied building in Europe.

 

[Kurt.]

And an army knife as well

I once knew a woman from Switzerland who could cookeep, clean, cut wood, light the fire and sow all at the same time... Swiss army wife she was

 

[Paul w]

The sum of the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

 

[Groucho]

Calling this in; It's only 98m. St Pauls Cathedral is 111m and it was the biggest building in London until the post office tower in 1967

I read though once, that you could fit St Paul's entirely inside the Anglican Cathedral.

If you could move, like, a cathedral and that.

 

[degsy]

I read though once, that you could fit St Paul's entirely inside the Anglican Cathedral.

If you could move, like, a cathedral and that.

Sq. Ft. area maybe?

Don't blame me, I thought the internet was Kosher.lol

This is the problem in a nutshell...and the cause of the original concept of the analogue Guinness Book of Records...no definitive version of facts, in their case which is the faster or fastest bird.

So now was ask ourselves, well I do, how many 'facts' in the modern print and online versions of TGBoR are sourced digitally - thus compounding the error.

One way would be to get hold of a pre-digital print copy...anybody or their parents for that matter, got one tucked away on a bookshelf ( if people still have such things) or in a cupboard?

Truth; seldom plain and never simple.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Sellafield currently stores over 100 tons of plutonium, the largest civil stockpile on earth, and it grows year on year. Amount required for one nuclear weapon? Abar 10 kg.

It is under armed guard by the civic nuclear constabulary, one of three special police forces in the UK (the others being the transport police and the MoD police).

 

[Groucho]

Sellafield currently stores over 100 tons of plutonium, the largest civil stockpile on earth, and it grows year on year. Amount required for one nuclear weapon? Abar 10 kg.

It is under armed guard by the civic nuclear constabulary, one of three special police forces in the UK (the others being the transport police and the MoD police).

My cousin is in that.

Loves his job.

 

[spence03]

Sellafield currently stores over 100 tons of plutonium, the largest civil stockpile on earth, and it grows year on year. Amount required for one nuclear weapon? Abar 10 kg.

It is under armed guard by the civic nuclear constabulary, one of three special police forces in the UK (the others being the transport police and the MoD police).

Amother fact about the place. The swines keep turning me down for a job.

 

[JammyP]

And that Switzerland has the worlds highest murder rate by percentage of its population.

See http://crimeresearch.org/2014/03/comparing-murder-rates-across-countries/
and, for more, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

 

[Bluesaint]

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See http://crimeresearch.org/2014/03/comparing-murder-rates-across-countries/
and, for more, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

The internet has lied to me, this is a sad day.

 

[JammyP]

The internet has lied to me, this is a sad day.

ah but, here on the internet, in GFH, the truth will set you free

 

[summerisle]

 

[Groucho]

The first Simpsons was shown 27 years ago today

 

[Gladystweet]

I'll remember that on Christmas Day when the mother in law is moaning as per usual.....