Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Titus Bramble]

Amazing.

Who knew bananas could do that?

I assume you could have a billion billion billion tons of anything with the same effect.

Pretty much, it's the sheer mass which falls in on itself in the vacuum of space so yeah literally anything you can think of could theoretically work.

 

[Groucho]

Pretty much, it's the sheer mass which falls in on itself in the vacuum of space so yeah literally anything you can think of could theoretically work.

So a billion billion billion Leon Osman's collapsing in on themselves would make a star.

There we go people, Leon Osman is galactic.

 

[Donald Twain]

If the population of China lined up in single file and walked along, the line would never end due to the rate of reproduction.

Wow walking babies!

 

[Groucho]

David Moyes won a cup. A football one.

False, it was a plate not a cup.

lol

 

[Groucho]

On Good Friday in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead, they played piano music.

When the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was issued a passport. Ramses' occupation was listed as "King (deceased)."

There was a long-lost fourth member of the Snap/Crackle/Pop gang. "Pow" represented Rice Krispies' explosive nutritional value.

 

[Bilko]

this is my favourite thread !

 

[Groucho]

Blame It On The Boogie was written by Mike Jackson, not Michael Jackson - different people. He even recorded his version first, but it was released second - the first by the Jackson 5 without his knowledge.

 

[Professor Toffee]

According to George W Bush there is no word in French for entrepreneur

 

[Professor Toffee]

On December 20th 1909 Dublin's first cinema, the Volta, was opened by James Joyce.
He soon lost interest

 

[glorydaze]

More people are killed each year by electric toasters than people killed by sharks. Why hasn't Spielberg made a movie about this?

 

[Professor Toffee]

More people are killed each year in Midsomer ffs, where's the outcry?

 

[Bilko]

Half the worlds traffic roundabouts are in France

 

[Titus Bramble]

The brightest things we know of in the universe are quazars, which are basically massive black holes which give off immense radiation. The brightest quazar we know of is so bright that if it was as close as 33 million light years away from Earth, it would appear in the sky as bright as our sun (the sun is 7 light minutes away).

 

[Titus Bramble]

Atoms are mostly empty space. So much so, if all the space was removed from all of the atoms in every human on the planet, we would all fit into the size of a sugar cube.

 

[Bilko]

Peters map,have a google of this,it appears the world maps are wildly not accurate.in land mass size Greenland looks roughly the same size as Africa,when apparently Greenland is 14 times smaller.
there's errors all over the world map and a good read in wikipedia.