Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Billysgingham.]

Bruce Lee was 1958 cha cha dance champion.

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]

Tumbleweed originated in Russia.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...eeds-are-actually-russian-invaders-180952360/

 

[RatterzRatzRatz]

How come you closed down the single malt thread @Groucho ???

 

[RatterzRatzRatz]

Tumbleweed originated in Russia.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...eeds-are-actually-russian-invaders-180952360/

A lot of things originated in the East....@summerisle

 

[WA Toffee]

Huey Lewis (ask your parents) grandfather invented the red wax which goes on a wheel of cheese such as edam.

 

[Groucho]

How come you closed down the single malt thread @Groucho ???

It’s open mate

 

[deipnosophist]

The number plate of the car in which Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated was AIII 118.*

*Armistice 11 11 18 ??

 

[Eggs]

....the brilliant Kinks song ‘Waterloo Sunset’ was originally intended to be about the demise of the Mersey sound and called ‘Liverpool Sunset’.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Nicholas Lyndhurst was Ronnie Barker's son in 'Going Straight' !!

 

[summerisle]

More people have climbed Mount Everest than have swum the English Channel.

 

[davids]

....the brilliant Kinks song ‘Waterloo Sunset’ was originally intended to be about the demise of the Mersey sound and called ‘Liverpool Sunset’.

Wishful thinking on their part,1967 the Beatles were still going strong.

 

[deipnosophist]

Wishful thinking on their part,1967 the Beatles were still going strong.

Indeed...a little known album of theirs was released in May 67...Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

 

[deipnosophist]

A Roman slave named Addictus, when freed, used to retain his wearing of a chain because he was so used to it and didn't like not being with it on.
This is the etymology of the word addict/addiction etc

 

[summerisle]

Priorities, priorities.