9 THINGS TO SAY DOWN AT THE PUB ABOUT: CALL OF DUTY
● Chefs at the Curry Lounge restaurant in Nottingham, UK, built a freestanding tower of 1052 pappadums, measuring 1.51 metres
● Twenty-five per cent of fat women don’t think they have a weight problem
● Lank, a village in northern India, has banned unmarried women from using mobile phones, fearing they will arrange forbidden marriages
● The most Jaffa Cakes eaten in one minute is eight, by Gustav Schulz (UK) in Essex in two attempts in 2009 and 2010
● A group of flamingos is known, not as a flock, but as a “pat”
● M Night Shyamalan’s three supernatural thrillers, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, have grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide
● The largest-ever full English breakfast weighs 2.9kg and consists of ten rashers of bacon, ten sausages, ten eggs, bread,mushrooms, five slices of black pudding, beans and tomatoes. It’s served up at Mario’s Cafe Bar in Bolton, UK, and costs $17.80, but is free if eaten within 20 mins
● Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if the present rate of decline continues. There are only about 3200 tigers left on the planet, compared to 100,000 a century ago
● The brain can turn down its ability to see in order to listen to complex sounds like music
● Until the late 1800s, Turkish women suspected of committing adultery
were put in bags with live cats and tossed into the ocean
● Italian bloke Michele Forgione can burp a single belch for one minute and 13 seconds
● Studies show dogs are cleverer than cats because their friendly character has helped them develop bigger brains
● Over 50 per cent of members of a previously undiscovered tribe usually die after making first contact with the outside world
● The Flat Earth Society, launched in 1956, is an organisation dedicated to proving that, contrary to modern science thinking, our planet isn’t round
● Canada’s Aaron Caissie is able to balance 17 spoons simultaneously on his face
● A slug eats twice its bodyweight a day
● During World War II, eccentric British officer Lieutenant Colonel Jack Churchill once went into battle armed with a longbow and a claymore
● About 14 per cent of mobile phone users no longer have a fixed-line telephone at home, says a new survey
● There is a monastery in every village in Burma
● On average, humans have 24 hairs per one square centimetre of skin
● Chilean astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet that exists outside our Milky Way. Called HIP 13044-b, the Jupiterlike plane, is part of a solar system which is nearing the end of its life,and is 2000 light years from Earth
● The Pentagon has twice as many bathroom facilities as needed because it was built during a time when Virginia law required separate bathrooms for black and white people
● Half of Australia’s teenagers share their personal data with strangers online, says new research
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