Groucho's Fact Hunt

[ToffeeDoug]

The circumstances leading to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in hostile Sarajevo in 1914, the spark for the First World War, are truly bizarre. Earlier in the day, one of his Austrian military officer bodyguards was shot and injured by Serbian nationalists and so went to hospital. At the end of his meet and greet duties for the day, AFF wanted to visit the hospital where the officer was. In doing so, his driver, not knowing the route took a wrong turn and end up in a narrow street. While trying slowly to reverse and turn round, another armed Serbian nationalist was sat in a coffee shop and saw the royal car virtually at a standstill. He walked out of the coffee shop and shot AFF dead. On such moments, the whole future of the world turned.

 

[Groucho]

Franz Liszt received so many requests for clips of his hair, that he bought a dog and sent people clippings from that instead.

 

[Bilko]

somewhere in our cricket thread,someone posted a good one, Luke Ronchi who played in the recent test series for New Zealand against England is the only person with the name Luke to play test match cricket, quite remarkable really I thought.

 

[LostLegend]

Up until 1950, the popular soft drink '7-Up' contained Lithium-Citrate as a 'mood boosting' additive!

 

[Tramps_mate]

Used to eat my school lunch in the gardens of St Luke's!

Before it was bombed?

 

[The Esk]

Before it was bombed?

When it was getting built mate

 

[Tramps_mate]

Ice isn't slippery. What makes people slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.

The following are titles of four Hollywood films changed and dubbed for the Hong Kong market.

• Fargo: "Mysterious Murder in Snowy Cream."
• The English Patient: "Don't Ask Me Who I Am."
• Boogie Nights: "His Powerful Device Makes Him Famous."
• Nixon: "The Big Liar."
  

Some good ones here too..

http://www.babbel.com/magazine/american-movie-titles-weird-translations

 

[Tramps_mate]

The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese while you're eating it.

A family of peole with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition.

Dear lord....

 

[Titus Bramble]

Planets don't twinkle in the night sky like stars do. Stars twinkle because they appear in the night sky as a pinpoint of light, because all of the light is coming from a single point it is very susceptible to interference from airpockets in the Earth's atmosphere. Since planets are much closer they appear as discs in the night sky (more obvious if you look at them through a telescope) meaning the light source is larger than a pinpoint and larger than any airpockets that can distort the light.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

When a male bee climaxes, their testicles explode, then they die.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

In his lifetime, Adolf Hitler had four relationships (three confirmed and one suspected). Of those relationships, all four women attempted suicide at least once, and two succeeded.

 

[nosejam]

After hearing the news about 9/11, Kenyan Masai tribes donated 14 cows to the United States.

 

[Kurt.]

16 signatories of the original declaration of independence in America were of welsh descent. The largest ethnic group of signatories on the original document.

 

[TheFinnFan]

16 signatories of the original declaration of independence in America were of welsh descent. The largest ethnic group of signatories on the original document.

So we can say that one of them was your relative. Boss!
You should clame the throne of Emerica.