Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Whistlin' Dixie]

David Lloyd George, our only Prime Minister who was Welsh and himself a Welsh speaker, was born near Manchester!

And Dan Snow, the television presenter/history enthusiast talentless two-hat who's only on every show on the bbc because of it's inherent nepotism and 'old school-tie' culture, is a great great grandson of his.

Fixed

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Fixed

Fair comment, sorry for the confusion!

 

[summerisle]

The Echidna has a four headed penis whilst the female has only two 'openings'

 

[jal123]

The Echidna has a four headed penis whilst the female has only two 'openings'

Twos up, is right.

 

[Bilko]

The Echidna has a four headed penis whilst the female has only two 'openings'

he has a great grin on his face though !

 

[marnie]

Twos up, is right.

That deserves rep to come back.

 

[deipnosophist]

Is that the one in Hawaii that's under the sea.

a lot of it is

 

[deipnosophist]

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Children's author - Lewis Carroll ( real name Charles Lutwidge Dodson was born in the village of Daresbury in 1832 - just outside Runcorn.

All Saints Church in Daresbury has a memorial stained glass window dedicated to Carroll .

Carroll was a professor of maths at Oxford University and it is said that his inspiration for Alice in Wonderland came from the time he spent with the College Deans three daughters.

Carroll possibly would have formed part of Operation Yew Tree had he been alive today, as he was a keen photographer. One his favourite subject matters being naked and semi naked children !.

...Dodgson...

PS : from his photographic preferences, I'd say he was Dodgy Dodgson

 

[deipnosophist]

David Lloyd George, our only Prime Minister who was Welsh and himself a Welsh speaker, was born near Manchester!

Apparently he was very well endowed (as was H G Wells). In today's age, both men would be classified as sex addicts.
A well known song of the times was 'Lloyd George knew my father' : it was a 20th century music hall creation which celebrated the womanising of LG (the Goat). Lloyd George knew my mother was of course more appropriate but that would surely have offended the period's sensibilities too much

 

[kev]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
is the fear of long words.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
is the fear of long words.

That's easy for you to say.

 

[deipnosophist]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
is the fear of long words.

that's ironic; a bit like the speech defect in which s is pronounced like th, being called a lisp

 

[Groucho]

@roydo

Here's the world's first crossword. Called the "word cross", it was in the New York World on Dec 21 1913, and was devised by scouser Arthur Wynne.

 

[Bilko]

Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their neck

 

[mythbuster]

Harold Godwinson (Harold II) whose army was defeated by William the conqueror in 1066 was the last English/UK monarch to be descended from an English family, apparently. Every monarch since has descended from a foreign family, according to a documentary I recently watched. I'm taking their word for it, as I can't be arsed investigating all of their family trees.