More Marbella Pub Facts that you should really know
The first college to use the word "campus" to describe its grounds was Princeton. "Campus" is Latin for "field."
Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
In Britain, the law was changed in 1789 to make the method of execution hanging. Prior to that, burning was the modus operandi. The last female to be executed by burning in England was Christian Bowman. Her crime was making counterfeit coins.
The slippers plant (bulbo stylis) of Haiti looks like a pair of fuzzy slippers.
The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr.
Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!
Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
There are 52 cards in a standard deck and there are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards and 4 seasons in a year. If you add the values of all the cards in a deck (jack=11 queen=12, etc.) you get a total of 365 the same as the number of days in a year.
It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface.
