Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Groucho]

Bach and Handel were both blinded by the same surgeon.

Beethoven used to count out his coffee beans exactly, 60 for each cup.

Mozart wrote the overture to Don Giovanni while hugely hungover - on the morning of it's first performance.

 

[Groucho]

Teeth evolved from fish scales

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Morphine is made naturally in the human body (in tiny amounts).

 

[COYBL25]

Fish in Polar regions such as the Artic / Antartic are able to survive in the freezing water due their bodies producing anti freeze molecules - glycoproteins.

 

[Bigmaclad]

Don't know if this one has been in here but it's my favourite fact at the moment:

The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty was based on a massive cannon that fell off a wall and shattered, the soldiers could never repair it.

 

[Yorkie]

Female hyenas have got nobs. Not functioning ones but still there.

 

[BigBlueConk]

The cheating Beatles didn't spell the word HELP in semaphor on their famous album cover.
They spell out N-U-J-V.

 

[JammyP]

Teeth evolved from fish scales

?????
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Tall story indeed!

 

[JammyP]

Don't know if this one has been in here but it's my favourite fact at the moment:

The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty was based on a massive cannon that fell off a wall and shattered, the soldiers could never repair it.

Were you there?

 

[degsy]

Balsa wood is a hardwood

 

[WA Toffee]

About 10% of all the people who have ever lived, are currently alive

 

[degsy]

There are only 2 poisonous snakes in the world, plenty of venomous ones, but only 2 that would poison you if you ate them

the devil as they say is in the detail

 

[Bilko]

London Victoria's train station toilets has recorded profit of £2.3 million over the past three years. Euston took £1.8,Kings Cross £1.4, with Paddington making a pathetic £1.2 million.Lime street is well down the table,with £400,000.

 

[degsy]

London Victoria's train station toilets has recorded profit of £2.3 million over the past three years. Euston took £1.8,Kings Cross £1.4, with Paddington making a pathetic £1.2 million.Lime street is well down the table,with £400,000.

That's a lorra lorra pennies

 

[degsy]

There are only 5 place names in the USA with an apostrophe in the name