Things I learned today (Part 2)

Thiago Silva had TB and spent six months in hospital while at Dynamo Moscow.

You saying Ireland is full?

Full of dead people

Ingenious and yet so obvious. Surprised Paddy hasnā€™t thought of thisā€¦

June Carter Cash wrote Ring of Fire.

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Leo Fender, inventor of the Fender Stratocaster, couldnā€™t actually play the guitar.

The suite ABBA partied in after winning the Eurovision in Brighton in 1974 was the same suite that Mrs Thatcher was staying in in the Grand Hotel the night of the Brighton bombing in 1984.

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They both had a blast

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Heather Graham plays the younger version of the mom in Twins

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The term ā€˜bucket listā€™ was first used in 1999 by Anglo-American screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

It is a rare example of a term emanating from a film/book instead of vice versa.

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Maggie nearly met her Waterloo that night.

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Thereā€™s an option to pay a set percentage to the church on tax forms here in Sweden. Huge amounts of folk tick the box, and are atheist. The church here do a lot of good work in the community. I was quite taken aback and impressed by them. The catholic church in Ireland could learn a few things from them.

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Informative rating :+1:

Limerick hurlers train 30 hours a week.

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She nearly met her Waterloo

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Willie Wonka is irish

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The Oā€™Wonkas

U2 - Pride in the name of Love
Lyrics contain a factual error in referring to ā€œmorningā€ sky. Dr Martin Luther King was shot dead at 6pm.

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Always thought it was ā€œthe Memphis skyā€

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You are right

Early morning, April four

Was the error.

Mea culpa

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