Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Dylan]

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Gave you a like for that, I understood each word on it's own perfectly well, just went straight over my head when I tried to read it all at once...If you were going to bother explaining it, don't, you still get to keep the like...life's too short ( that's a fact as well )

Tough luck mate, I'm gonna.

A gaming company made a popular game series called Half Life and have said, at some point, it will release the third installment.

But the fans, with a massive sense of entitlement, don't want to wait, they WANT IT NOW!. So someone thought it would be a laugh to poke fun at these fans by creating a 'bot' that detects whenever Half Life 3 is mentioned on Reddit (the self-proclaimed 'Front Page of the Internet').

 

[degsy]

Tough luck mate, I'm gonna.

A gaming company made a popular game series called Half Life and have said, at some point, it will release the third installment.

But the fans, with a massive sense of entitlement, don't want to wait, they WANT IT NOW!. So someone thought it would be a laugh to poke fun at these fans by creating a 'bot' that detects whenever Half Life 3 is mentioned on Reddit (the self-proclaimed 'Front Page of the Internet').

*copying 2 out of 3 of the wise monkeys, while going La La La La etc

 

[Dylan]

If the sun suddenly collapsed and formed a black hole, apart from the solar system freezing, the planets would continue on their current orbits.

(Black holes have the same mass as their contributing body, thus the gravitational forces at play remain constant)

 

[Groucho]

If the center of UV Scuti was at the center of the solar system, its radius would reach out to Saturn's orbit.

Also, the true radius isn't actually known due to its pulsating characteristics.

Yeah - I think I read that if you were to fly a 747 around its surface, it'd take 1000 years to circumnavigate it.

Rather big, that.

 

[Prevenger17]

A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.
http://www.universetoday.com/47900/length-of-year-on-venus/

Ooooh, I like that one.

 

[Prevenger17]

Looked up mate.

Literally, it's the obvious one here;

I can't see it.

 

[Groucho]

I can't see it.

Best to stop looking up and look at your screen for this one.

Better still, hold your screen to the sky and look up.....

 

[Black Belt Jones]

An uninteresting fact, but good quiz question - what is the highest point on Merseyside?

Spoiler

Billinge hill, right on the county boundary with Lancs

 

[Bilko]

Mind-boggling Fact of the Day: Ronaldo could play & not score in every Madrid game 'til 2024 & still have more goals in less games than Raul

 

[COYBL25]

An uninteresting fact, but good quiz question - what is the highest point on Merseyside?

Spoiler

Billinge hill, right on the county boundary with Lancs

The highest point in Liverpool is Resevoir Road in Woolton

 

[Groucho]

The highest point in Liverpool is Resevoir Road in Woolton

I've always been under the impression that the higest point in Liverpool was at the top of St. George's church in Everton.

 

[summerisle]

What is the closest US state to Africa ?

 

[COYBL25]

I've always been under the impression that the higest point in Liverpool was at the top of St. George's church in Everton.

Sorry mate, it's deffo Reservoir Road, at a whopping 292ft above sea level !

 

[Groucho]

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Sorry mate, it's deffo Reservoir Road, at a whopping 292ft above sea level !

Mine was only based on "I read it once I think". lol

 

[JimmyJeffers]

What is the closest US state to Africa ?

Had to google this one. Very good