Groucho's Fact Hunt

[degsy]

All bar one of Raymond Chandler's novels were written whe he held British nationality.

He certainly took a long (time to say) goodbye

 

[orly]

On consideration, you might say the melted cheese distance indicates the total refraction of the microwave post its exiting the magnetron (ie its deviation from 6.25 centimetres would reflect (pardon the pun) light's/the microwave photon's velocity retardation).

I imagine there's an index for this (the melted cheese index?)

This is completely ace

 

[summerisle]

Nevada State Prison had a casino for inmates between 1932-1967.

http://www.casinoinside.ro/?p=12280&lang=en

 

[Bilko]

Beer was considered a soft drink up until 2011 in Russia.

 

[Bilko]

If you rub Euro notes quite hard on white paper.some of the dye will come off. This will also work on aged notes also.

 

[gonetomorrow]

India is now thought to be more populous than China.

 

[COYBL25]

Colin Dexter, the author of the Inspector Morse novels, wrote his first novel during a wet family holiday in Wales, whilst bored, stuck in a holiday cottage with his family.

He had never previously written anything, but after reading two cheap detective novels whilst on holiday, decided he couid better.

Dexter was a champion cross word compiler and took the name name of Morse and his side kick Lewis from his two regular opponents in crossword championships :

Sir Jeremy Morse and Mrs B Lewis.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Annie Proulx - highly esteemed author of the Shipping News, Brokeback mountain, and others, didn't publish a novel until she was 57.

 

[Badge1878]

The best before date on every packet of Walkers crisps is always a Saturday.

 

[summerisle]

The meerkat is the most heinous mammal, killing nearly 1 in 5 of their own cuddly brethren.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...rderous-mammal-known-to-science-a7335741.html

 

[a bell maul]

George Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 2008) was a US Navy rear admiral and commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, which sparked an escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band The Doors

 

[summerisle]

In 1879 cats were used to deliver the mail in Belgium.

http://stampcollectingroundup.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/mail-cats-of-belgium-1879.html

 

[jal123]

The meerkat is the most heinous mammal, killing nearly 1 in 5 of their own cuddly brethren.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...rderous-mammal-known-to-science-a7335741.html

Was it because of those adverts?

 

[COYBL25]

In 1879 cats were used to deliver the mail in Belgium.

http://stampcollectingroundup.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/mail-cats-of-belgium-1879.html

@Armel

 

[Armel]

@Armel

Whichever way you look at it; it surprises met that somebody thought that this seemed like the right thing to do.

Then again somebody also thought that this was a marvellous idea when there was no industry in the wide vicinity.