Pub Facts to impress your friends or just make conversation.

Cars

There are only 2,000 Ford Cortina MK IVs left in the world.
Since its launch, 26 million VW Golf’s have been sold.
The Lamborghini Murcielago manages only 11 miles per gallon.
The average motor vehicle speed around London is 11.8mph.
Vauxhall’s Griffin badge has been redesigned nine times since the 20’s

It costs £700 per KM to run F1 car at races and tests-that’s just for oil, fuel, tyre’s and general wear-and-tear.

Petrol existed before cars were around.
The best selling passenger car in history is the Toyota Corolla.
One circuit of the Shanghai Grand Prix circuit is 5.451KM.
It takes 400 hours to build a Bentley Arnage.
Only 2,900 Lamborghini Diablo Roadsters were made.




 

Sports

Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon is Britain’s most expensive number one, with a £9million price tag around his neck.
Celtic park is Scotland’s biggest football stadium with a capacity of 60,506.
Tottenham Hotspur formed in 1883, four years before North London rivals Arsenal.
Televised Champions League games in the UK average nine million viewers per game.
Formula One drivers typically work their way through 60-80 sets of brakes in a season.
The Davis Cup is the heaviest trophy in sport, at 105kg.
More than 5,000 Brazilian footballers play professionally outside their country.
Shane Warne holds the record for the most test runs without ever reaching a century.
South Africa has 51,944 registered football clubs – more than any other country.
Skiing is the fastest non-motorised sport in the world.
Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho now earns £7million per year as boss of Inter Milan.
The world’s largest indoor ski slope is in Dubai.
Ricky Hatton earns up to £12,000 a time performing after-dinner speeches.
The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.
England boss Fabio Capello rings his mother every day.
The wembley arch can be seen from 28 miles away.
Pro surfers will lose around 100 surfboards in their career.
The world record for the number of headers in a minute is 341 set in 2007 by Gao Chong of China.
Skiing is the faster non-motorised sport in the world.
Tiger Woods is the only golfer to be defending champion in all four majors at the same time.
The average distance covered by a Premier League midfielder during a match is 7.06 miles.

Facts About People

A healthy heart weights around 315g.
Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk! Rock On!
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The brain can make decisions as much as 10 seconds before they become conscious thoughts.
The world record for the most push-ups done in five hours using one are is 8,794.
The hightest G-force ever survived is 75 - the average F1 driver experiences just 6G which cornering at speed.
The average woman does 215 miles of ironing in her lifetime.
The oldest holder of an ASBO is an 88 year old man who had his TV to loud.
Humans can detect danger through smell.