Groucho's Fact Hunt

[summerisle]

The UK is the only country in the world not required to name itself on postage stamps.

 

[glorydaze]

In Evertons history the team we have beaten the most times(82), and lost to the most(114) is the same.
RS!

 

[BigBlueConk]

In Evertons history the team we have beaten the most times(82), and lost to the most(114) is the same.
RS!

I'm old enough to remember when that figure was almost 50/50.
Damn you Everton!

 

[admirschleck]

Roman empire is only 29th biggest empire in the history and it covered only around 3,64% of world land area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires (Scroll down for the list)

 

[Brendan Janus]

Grimsby Town don't play in Grimsby.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Grimsby Town don't play in Grimsby.

Their ground was the lowest in the football league (when they were in it).

 

[Brendan Janus]

Their ground was the lowest in the football league (when they were in it).

And West Brom's is the highest !!

 

[summerisle]

And West Brom's is the highest !!

The Hawthorns : 552 feet
Estadio Hernando Siles (Bolivia) : 9,800 feet - that's high

 

[ToffeeDoug]

And West Brom's is the highest !!

A pub quiz standard question, amazing the number who don't know this or are incredulous at the answer!

 

[SailorBlue]

Nottingham Forests City Ground is outside the city boundary in the county

Notts County's Meadow Lane ground is in the city.

 

[hibbo'sclass]

According to the ECHR, Limited Companies have "human rights".

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Chinese science has never won a Nobel prize, until yesterday.
The Nobel prize for medicine was given to Youyou Tu (and two others) who won it for her discovery of artemisinin in the 70s, used to treat malaria.

Will probably be the first of many. Chinese scientists have won Nobels before, but for work done overseas - this is the first where the work was done in China.

 

[summerisle]

Ninjas never wore black clothing.
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/misconception-ninja.htm

 

[The Cowboy]

Chinese science has never won a Nobel prize, until yesterday.
The Nobel prize for medicine was given to Youyou Tu (and two others) who won it for her discovery of artemisinin in the 70s, used to treat malaria.

Will probably be the first of many. Chinese scientists have won Nobels before, but for work done overseas - this is the first where the work was done in China.

Please tell me Bono presented the award.

 

[Eggs]

....apparently, September 15 was the first month in 6 years that a NFL footballer has not been arrested.