Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The world’s most expensive beer is Belgium’s ‘Vielle Bon Secours’. One bottle costs around $1000.

Fear of an empty beer glass-I wonder how many pub owners suffer from that on a regular basis

Container ships contain basketball courts.

'Monk's Balls' are popular pastries in Argentina.

The Serbian for 'pride' means 'diarrhoea' in Russian.

On Sweden, 'spontaneous dancing' was illegal until 2017.

Ithyphallophobia is a morbid fear of seeing,thinking about or having an erect penis.

In 2011,Samsung launched 100 paper planes 23 miles above Germany.Some have since been found on the USA,Canada,South Africa,Russia,India and Australia.

You're never going to get on in life if you've got that phobia and what happens if your girlfriend wants to give you a blow job? pity those poor people that suffer from that.

Chances are you probably remember the advert for Cadbury's Caramel chocolate bar, but I bet you also found the cartoon bunny sexy too(go on admit it, you did didn't you ) but I bet you didn't know that the sexy voice was done by Miriam Margolyes - who also did the overdubbing in Monkey of several characters including the priest who looked a lot like a girl! Peter Hawkins did the voice for Monkey and he would go onto to do other voices in cartoons such as 'Jimbo and the Jet Set' and 'The Family Ness' for the BBC.

Did you know where the phrase eating humble pie comes from? Well amazingly neither did I until about 5 minutes ago. Apparently it dates back to William the Conqueror who when out hunting stag/deer would have to kill it, then split it from chin to testicles(which would be put on a stick and paraded around) and then the best part of the deer, the haunches whereas people lower down the pecking order would be given the intestines or numbles but because they were tasteless they were put into a pie... a NUMBLE pie and over the years it became corrupted to what we know today as HUMBLE PIE.

Anyone listening to LBC radio in the 80's/90's might recall presenter Clive Bull's show at night and he used to have some odd people ringing his show such as Babs from Bermondsey(cockney lady), Charles from Camden Town(an old man who seemed lonely but had a lovely singing voice) Schmuel a bagel maker and Sven a Norwegian fisherman who used to regale Clive with tales of fishing. It was years later that he found out that 'Sven' was in fact the comedian PETER COOK who used to be a fan of the show.

Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.

There is a theatre in Russia where all of the actors are cats.