33 - Pharoah's Curses, Reunited Families and Carving through Mountains

It's Friday which means yet another weekly fact finding mission with Gill Smith and Pete Moor.

This episode sees Gill sharing the story of Juliette Gordon Low using her last worldly possession to start a National Movement, as well as how the Pharoah's Curse from ancient Egypt may be helping scientists find a cure for cancer.

Pete shares a similar breakthrough regarding how dopamine works and how it may lead to better treatment of several brain based diseases and a story of pure chance which solved a two-decade long mystery of a long lost daughter.

Finally Gill and Pete realise they are huge under achievers when compared to both Sir David Attenborough and indeed, Gill's brother.

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Its Friday again and it's another fact sharing mission from the "Answers on a Podcast" duo, Gill Smith and Pete Moor.

This week, Gill has a couple of stories from history including the "Home Coming Queen" otherwise known as the Bayeux Tapestry and the story of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) which was the organisation of spies in the Second World War who had a slightly different attitude to espionage to James Bond and his pals...

Pete tells us of 2 stories of total chance, one of which shows that it can take a bullet 20 years to finally reach its intended target.

Finally, there is story that will inspire prisoners everywhere to look at their "prisoner information handbook" in a whole new light.

So just keep your head up and watch out for babies dropping from windows... Just saying...

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It's another Friday, so another session of fact based fun is upon us.

This week, Gill & Pete provide more answers on a podcast to the questions you never asked such as:

Is it possible to survive a plane crash and 11 days in the jungle?

What could you spend $5 dollars on that is better than juice?

Exactly how many porpoises does a medieval Glastonbury really need?

What does it really mean if a king shaves off his beard when he wasn't supposed to?

And finally of course...

If a Princess asks you to wrestle, does she want a husband or does she just want your horse?

All these questions and more are dealt with this week and don't say we don't handle the pressing issues of the day...

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Facts The Way I Like It! is written and presented by Gill Smith & Pete Moor.

Subjects & Research by Gill Smith & Pete Moor.

Sound, Editing & Music by Pete Moor.

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