The "Pub" facts Thread

One in every six people on the planet is a direct decendant of Genghis Kahn. (Theres a bloke who got around!!)

Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled
'Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden'...and thus the word GOLF entered
into the English language .
wrong

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair .
how do they know this?

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
i know the queens are all based on the same woman, so not sure

Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.

so we can actually count all the things invented by women?

My uncle invented the glow in the dark paint you see on airport runways!

There is a spelling mistake on the Irish Inscription on the Michael Collins Statue in Beal na mblath

Giraffes sleep standing up!

While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.

When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.

Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.

Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.

There are more people alive today than have ever died.

summer lasts 93 days 15 hours in the northern hemisphere, or 93 minutes 15 seconds in ireland.

prossies in ancient rome were required by law to wear blonde wigs

there have been 125 cival wars since the end of WW2

five seconds between lightening and thunder equals 1 mile

films starring legand christopher walken have grossed 900 million dollars at the box office

in arabic 'al qaeda' means 'the base' or 'military hq'

louisiana is the only U.S. state where cock fighting is legal

in 2003 bruce willis offered $500,000 for the capture of saddam hussein

there is only one elephant in alaska-in anchorage zoo

Love2love wrote:

In Indonesia it is illegal to masterbate. The sentence - DECAPITATION!

they're only a bunch of **** over there anyway