Interesting Facts

Cathy Price, is a 53 year old mother of one, and what makes her interesting is she is on the longest pub crawl ever, visiting every pub in the UK called the Red Lion, allegedly the most common name for a pub. (Her goal is to visit all 724 Red Lion pubs in Britain.  At each pub she visits, she poses for a photo and drinks half a pint of beer. Her longest trip to date was from her home in Preston to the Red Lion at Penzance, Cornwall - a 750-mile round trip, and so far she has clocked up 7,000 miles. Unfortunately some of the pubs she wanted to visit have already closed for business, about 10%, she calls them Dead Lions and crosses them off her list. Once she has conquered the UK she intends to continue her tour abroad; she has already visited a Red Lion in Dubai and New York.) You can follow her on Facebook .

In Africa, humans are more likely to be killed by the vegetarian hippopotamus than the meat-eating lion. (Hippos weigh up to 8000 pounds and can gallop at 18 m.p.h. A healthy adult lion weighs around 550 lbs, but they can run at 50 mph. A hippo's canines measure up to 20 inches long, a lion's 3.1 inches.)