Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Eggs]

...in 1791 in a trial at the Old Bailey, barrister William Garrow sternly told the judge that, “every man is presumed to be innocent until proved guilty”.

That was the first articulation of what would in 1935, be described by the Court of Appeal as the ‘golden thread running through the web of English criminal law’.

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]

CAESAR, Sir Julius (1558-1636), of Mitcham, Surr.; the Inner Temple, London; the Rolls House, Chancery Lane, London; Doctors' Commons, London; The Strand, Westminster; later of Humberton Street, Hackney, Mdx. | History of Parliament Online

www.historyofparliamentonline.org

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Always thought Robert Palmer was the original but;

 

[summerisle]

 

[Philw]

On July 21 1969, he collected a cheque for £10,000 (in today’s money £161,688 or $166,932) on live TV.

Not aure about this math...

 

[Kurt.]

Liverpool city’s famous Liver Birds are named Bertie and Bella ...... a fact I only found out today.

 

[WA Toffee]

Not aure about this math...

Not sure about your spelling of maths.....

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]

Vegetables have got to up their game.

 

[PhilM]

Vegetables have got to up their game.

I’ve always said the people who have incredibly weak tea should be locked away.

 

[kev]

 

[4737carlin]

Thora Birch, from Ghost World, both her parents were in pornos, in fact both appeared in Deep Throat.

 

[Groucho]

All the planets in our solar system would fit side by side between us and the moon.

 

[leslad]

All the planets in our solar system would fit side by side between us and the moon.

I looked into this, it's close between the two!