Groucho's Fact Hunt

[chrismpw]

Wouldn't want to hear that in a dark alley, or come to that, in a light alley.

At least one of those sounds is how I imagine Fat Sam sounds sniffing out gravy.

 

[degsy]

Cart Grant took acid in the late 1950s...

...“In one LSD dream, I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from Earth like a spaceship”. As you do....

Lets not be too judgemental. We've all been there one time or another

 

[deipnosophist]

Caxton was the first English ghost writer?

 

[summerisle]

The original name for jelly babies was unclaimed babies. Then after the end of WW1 they were renamed peace babies, finally, in 1953, after the end of sweet rationing they were called jelly babies.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Eggs]

….apparently a true story;

 

[Rich1878]

Human fingers do not contain muscles. The muscles that move them are in the palm and forearm.

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]

Too much wine and pasta ; don't know what they eat in Macedonia. lol

 

[Eggs]

….Morecambe & Wise first appeared on stage together at Liverpool Empire.

 

[Eggs]

…I never knew Charlie Chaplin lived in Liverpool for a while. As a youngster he appeared at Henglers Theatre (latterly The Hippodrome) and went to SFX in Salisbury St. I was raised close to The Hippodrome & my dad also went to SFX;

 

[Eggs]

….on 29.12.75 after being ‘male only’, this boozer had to open its doors to women due to the Sex Discrimination Act;

 

[davep]

It takes the same time (give or take ten mins) to fly from Perth (Aus) to Christchurch (NZ) as it does to fly from London to Hyderabad (Ind).

 

[aazak]

US states overlaid on areas of Europe with equal population. Source: reddit user MapPorn

 

[Eggs]