Groucho's Fact Hunt

davep said:
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.
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Crumlin Road Jail?
 

Kurt. said:
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
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I knew that.

One of my favourite trivia questions.
 

Kurt. said:
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
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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..
 
Tramps_mate said:
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..
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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
 
Kurt. said:
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
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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
 


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