Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

In 1908 aberdeen fc became the last senior ground in Britain to cease giving women free admission .

 

[larbert toffee]

In 1908 aberdeen fc became the last senior ground in Britain to cease giving women free admission .

Aberdeen giving free admission? You been on the lemmo Al?

 

[PhilM]

J.M. Barrie made the name Wendy up solely for the book Peter Pan. On that note, Shakespeare certainly produced over four hundred new words or terms.

There may be more based on changes of nouns into verbs or adjectives et al. but in his literature there are over four hundred completely new uses of vocabulary.

Examples include: amazement, anchovy, bedroom, birthplace, bump, control, dawn, downstairs, embrace, fixture, green-eyed glow, impartial and outbreak.

 

[Jamiednm]

A thread for interesting tidbits that you’ve just learned...

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TIL, Thomas The Tank Engine is based on a fictional island in the Irish Sea called ‘The Island of Sodor’.

I think it was a question on Pointless or something, but I was amazed. Not only does it sound like a territory out of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, it also seems like overkill to make up a fictional island for a kids story about talking trains and a fat barstard controller.

 

[Billysgingham.]

This isn't going to end well

 

[chrismpw]

A thread for interesting tidbits that you’ve just learned...

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TIL, Thomas The Tank Engine is based on a fictional island in the Irish Sea called ‘The Island of Sodor’.

I think it was a question on Pointless or something, but I was amazed. Not only does it sound like a territory out of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, it also seems like overkill to make up a fictional island for a kids story about talking trains and a fat barstard controller.

I heard that too. My thought was it was a bit of a sinister sounding name for a young kids thing. More a name befitting Skeletor I figured.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

TIL: porn in VR is the future, mind blown

 

[ClausThomsen]

TIL the actual definition of posterity. I understood what was meant by it and how it was used but not the actual "all future generations" definition.

 

[trueblue84]

A thread for interesting tidbits that you’ve just learned...

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TIL, Thomas The Tank Engine is based on a fictional island in the Irish Sea called ‘The Island of Sodor’.

I think it was a question on Pointless or something, but I was amazed. Not only does it sound like a territory out of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, it also seems like overkill to make up a fictional island for a kids story about talking trains and a fat barstard controller.

Wasn't it written by a priest who wanted to call it Tommy tank until someone told him what it meant?

 

[DanB90]

TIL what TIL stands for.

 

[Frang]

Til never trust an Everton interview ie:brands..

Course we signing players

 

[summerisle]

This :

 

[Jamiednm]

This :

Awesome!

 

[sageyefc]

Not today but the other day I learnt there's two basketball teams called dwarf and chicken dunk

 

[Armaghtoffee]

A thread for interesting tidbits that you’ve just learned...

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TIL, Thomas The Tank Engine is based on a fictional island in the Irish Sea called ‘The Island of Sodor’.

I think it was a question on Pointless or something, but I was amazed. Not only does it sound like a territory out of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, it also seems like overkill to make up a fictional island for a kids story about talking trains and a fat barstard controller.

I’m delighted you are enjoying Christmas.

You have worked all year, you deserve it