Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Raymond077]

Apes been our closed relative, like us they have to be tought to swim.

There are only two in captivity who not only swim, but bleedin dive into the pool. One is a Chimp called Cooper and Oraungtang named Suryria....

Back stroke and Butterfly would need a little work..

All other apes who fall into deep water will drown..

 

[WA Toffee]

Can't be true. No-one would pay 3 grand for New Zealand

 

[Eggs]

Lancashire pair share 501-run stand

Lancashire's Alviro Petersen and Ashwell Prince become the 13th pair to share a 500-run partnership in first-class cricket.


.....great effort today.

 

[Groucho]

An area of Southport (Churchtown) was the first place in England to grow potatoes.

 

[nosejam]

Before having sex female giraffes urinate in the mouths of male giraffes.

After fighting over a female, male giraffes have sex.

Edit, this may be based on some flimsy science but is repeated across the internet: In fact, it is estimated that 75% to 94% of the time male giraffes have sex it is with another male.

 

[COYBL25]

Hugo Ferdinand Boss : born 1885 / Germany.

Founder of the Hugo Boss fashion house joined the Nazi Party in 1931, having served with the German army in the First World War.

In 1933 Hugo Boss produced the uniforms for the SS.

After the Second World War his company was fined for its links with the Nazi party and using prisoners of war as cheap labour.

Hugo Boss was subsequently banned from voting in Getmany after the Second World War.

 

[Joey66]

cracking stuff, i love my 4 inch third limb

Stretching it in a vice does not count!lolm or are you measuring it in mm 4 mm = 1 and a half inches!lol

 

[toffeejack]

Before having sex female giraffes urinate in the mouths of male giraffes.

After fighting over a female, male giraffes have sex.

Edit, this may be based on some flimsy science but is repeated across the internet: In fact, it is estimated that 75% to 94% of the time male giraffes have sex it is with another male.

not just giraffes that do that, let me assure you!

@Bungle

 

[toffeejack]

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Stretching it in a vice does not count!lolm or are you measuring it in mm 4 mm = 1 and a half inches!lol

you cruel cruel mistress you

 

[Heathcliff]

The Aussies are so narked off that they have been brewing moonshine to get past the pain of the current ashes atrocity. Such are the levels of pain and suffering there is a national shortage of vegemite which has been the main ingredient in the wicked brew leading to calls for it to be rationed and banned due to the supposed harm it is partly responsible for.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-33839742

Krafty!

 

[Groucho]

In composer Joseph Haydn's tomb there are two skulls. His was half-inched by phrenologists so a replacement was used.

When his actual skull was found again in 1954 they put it back - but left the replacement one there also for some reason.

 

[Pat's Van]

In composer Joseph Haydn's tomb there are two skulls. His was half-inched by phrenologists so a replacement was used.

When his actual skull was found again in 1954 they put it back - but left the replacement one there also for some reason.

because two heads are better than one old chum

 

[Black Belt Jones]

One third (14 of 42 people) of the wrestlers who took part in Wrestlemania VI in 1990 are dead.

Of the 44 starters in superbowl 24 in 1990, one is dead.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

An area of Southport (Churchtown) was the first place in England to grow potatoes.

Great one that. On a similar note, Teynham in Kent, on the A2 towards Canterbury, had the first ever cherry orchards in Britain, back in the reign of Henry 8th.

 

[Pat's Van]

One third (14 of 42 people) of the wrestlers who took part in Wrestlemania VI in 1990 are dead.

Of the 44 starters in superbowl 24 in 1990, one is dead.

so what you're saying is the footballers are killing all the wrestlers, hmmmm interesting