Things I learned today (Part 1)

That’s mad.

Go way you spoofer … Next you’ll be telling us Portugal is nearer to America than China

Turkey is vast. It’s half the width of Europe. China is even Vaster then.

We’ve an awful distorted view of the World thanks to the fake globes

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@PhattPike in particular hasn’t a clue

You would want your head examined to use anything other than an azimuthal map

Noel Keane, the Blackrock full back, is a West Tipperary man.

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Garth Crooks played for Manchester United.

Nicosia is closer to Dublin than it is to Lisbon. I learned this from University Challenge many years ago.

The oul’ curvature of the earth can be fierce deceptive given that we mainly look at flat maps rather than roundy ones.

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A belter. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York is the godfather to 2 of Billy Joel’s kids.

the Rockies fullback from 20 years ago??
That’s an odd thing to have learned,

Isn’t it.

In the film Frozen, the characters Hans, Kristoff, Anna and Sven are named after Hans Christian Andersen, the author of the film’s source material The Snow Queen.

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Source please. This will rock the kids worlds

He won a county with clonoulty rossmore the previous year afaik.

Anna and Elsa’s brother is Tarzan.

97

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The Spanish Flu of 1918 was so named as, even though it didn’t originate there, Spain wasn’t a belligerent in World War 1 and the participating nations didn’t want to reveal that their countries were suffering under massive illness.

its started in Kansas

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of very long words