Groucho's Fact Hunt

[IrishBlue2022]

Was in Belfast a few weeks ago. Visited a whiskey distillery and the prison while we were there (co-incidental/unrelated), and learnt the eptomolgy of a few phrases: cat got your tongue, money for old rope, couple others. Sure "hangover" was one of the others, but don't remember it being anything to do with waht that article says.

Crumlin Road Jail?

 

[BNJ1878]

Only one player has scored a hatrick in all 3 football league divisions, the premier league, the FA cup, the league cup and at international level. Without googling the answer first give it a guess… obvs I’ll put the answer here

I knew that.

One of my favourite trivia questions.

 

[brooklyn blue]

Only one player has scored a hatrick in all 3 football league divisions, the premier league, the FA cup, the league cup and at international level. Without googling the answer first give it a guess… obvs I’ll put the answer here

Ian Wright?

 

[Kurt.]

The answer is Rob Earnshaw

 

[summerisle]

 

[Kurt.]

At the height of his criminal prowess Pablo Escobar was estimated to earning £21.9 billion a year. He was actually losing £2.2 billion more as expected losses

 

[Tramps_mate]

At the height of his criminal prowess Pablo Escobar was estimated to earning £21.9 billion a year. He was actually losing £2.2 billion more as expected losses

The incredible wealth he had back then was unheard of. Most of his cash has disappeared, either pocketed by his gang or pocketed by the police and government. People really don't understand the power he had and sheer amount of drugs he was shifting..

 

[Kurt.]

The incredible wealth he had back then was unheard of. Most of his cash has disappeared, either pocketed by his gang or pocketed by the police and government. People really don't understand the power he had and sheer amount of drugs he was shifting..

Read this morning that the police seized 141 planes, 32 yachts and over 140 properties he owned but stayed that was only a very small amount of his total estate… the man was earning over £20 billion a year back then…. That’s ten times more per year than Elon musk makes now… frightening amounts of money

 

[Tramps_mate]

Read this morning that the police seized 141 planes, 32 yachts and over 140 properties he owned but stayed that was only a very small amount of his total estate… the man was earning over £20 billion a year back then…. That’s ten times more per year than Elon musk makes now… frightening amounts of money

What a legend!!

I know he murdered loads of people and shot down a commercial airliner just to show he could..

But its hard not to admire him!! lollol

 

[Kurt.]

What a legend!!

I know he murdered loads of people and shot down a commercial airliner just to show he could..

But its hard not to admire him!! lollol

His business brain must have been astounding

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Overdue Random Goalkeeper Fact of the Day (64): Jan Jongbloed, who sadly passed away last week, was the last goalkeeper not to wear gloves in a World Cup final, doing so when the Netherlands were defeated by West Germany in 1974.

 

[davep]

Crumlin Road Jail?

Yeah, that's the one.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Yeah, that's the one.

5 minutes from where i live. I actually did an overnight stay there, wasn't arrested, it was for a charity fundraiser.

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]