Interesting Facts

According to GoEuro , the cheapest city to drink beer in the world is Krakow, Poland.  In the UK it is Liverpool, London is 63rd. (The top 10 cheapest places, based on the cost of 33cl of beer were as follows:- 1. Krakow, Poland (£1.07) 2. Kiev, Ukraine (£1.07) 3. Bratislava, Slovakia (£1.09) 4. Malaga, Spain (£1.11) 5. Delhi, India (£1.13) 6. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (£1.15) 7. Mexico City, Mexico (£1.26) 8. Belgrade, Serbia (£1.27) 9. Asuncion, Paraguay (£1.28) 10. Bangkok, Thailand (£1.36) Well, Krakow here I come!)

Chinese billionaire Li Jinyuan took 6,400 members of staff from the Tiens Group on an all-expenses-paid holiday to Paris and Cote d'Azur to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the company (France is expected to be 33 million Euros better off. His company booked up 140 hotels in Paris and then made their way to the glamorous Cote D'Azur, where they booked 4,760 rooms in 79 four-and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco. They then broke the world record to form a human chain in Nice as the 6,400 employees arranged themselves to spell out the phrase 'Tiens' dream is Nice in the Cote d'Azur'. LEN will be 20 in 2019. Well I can dream.)

A study carried out by Theatre Projects Consultants shows that that the average size of cinema (movie) seats in the US has grown over the last 20 years. (Cinemas (movie theaters) have had to adjust the size of their seats for the ever expanding waistlines of their customers.  According to the report, the average cinema (movie theater) in 1990 had seats that were 20" wide and had 33" of separation between it and the seat in front of it. Nowadays the average seat is  23" wide and has 38" of space.   More leg room for me.)