ECR's Top 5: Get Fact'd stories for the final week of August
Do you know what joke won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's funniest joke for a second time?
Darren Maule always has our back.
So we have put together a top five #GetFact'd facts from the week that you may have missed out on:
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1.
Masai Graham won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's funniest joke for the second time... "I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta."
Read more: #GetFact'd: Masai Graham wins festival's funniest joke again
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 22 August to hear other facts as well.
2.
According to the film's director, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray's character in 'Groundhog Day' relived the same day for "30 or 40 years".
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In fact, whatculture.com did the math and came up with 33 years and 350 days needed to account for everything we see, hear about, and all the skills he mastered.
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 23 August to hear other facts as well.
3.
In 2013, a climber found a box full of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds on a remote glacier on Mont Blanc.
Authorities determined they were likely from an Indian plane that crashed there in 1966.
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After the climber turned in the gems, the authorities took eight years attempting to locate the family of the original owners. The gems were worth $169,000.
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 24 August to hear other facts as well.
4.
In Central Europe, there are hunger stones (hungerstein) in river beds marked with an inscription, visible only when the flow is low enough to warn of a drought that would cause famine.
The hunger stones are very similar to the kilometers of Ancient Egypt.
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There were flow meters along the Nile which gave an indication of when the flooding wouldn’t bring enough nutrients.
That allowed the civilisation to know that they needed to conserve grain stores.
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 25 August to hear other facts as well.
5.
Red Bull energy drink was originally invented by a duck farmer from Thailand as a hangover cure before being bought over by Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz, who discovered it on a business trip in 1987.
Read more: #GetFact'd: Red Bull energy drink was originally invented by a duck farmer
That's why its slogan is 'Red Bull Gives You Wings'.
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 26 August to hear other facts as well.
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