Guinness 9 Ball Tour
  


Over 10 million glasses of Guinness® are consumed every day around the world. That is a staggering 1,883,200,000 or 1.8 billion glasses each year.
A pint of Guinness® Draught has fewer calories than a pint of orange juice.
Guinness® Draught is actually deep ruby red, not black.
Guinness® Draught floats when poured over lager beer.
U2 was discovered at a Guinness® sponsored talent search in Dublin way back in 1977.
In the US we were told, “You can’t sell black beer in a blonde market.” Guinness® Draught is now most commonly found on tap in New York.
Guinness® has sold 3,333 million bottles of beer – enough to stretch from Ireland to Australia.
If Niagara Falls was flowing with Guinness® it would take 1.2 million pints in volume per second to keep it rolling.
Hard Rock Café’s Legendary Burger is topped with bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato and a crisp homemade onion ring – all served on a roll made with Guinness®.
Gas bubbles travel downwards, instead of upwards, in a pint of Guinness®.
The Guinness Storehouse at St. James Gate was designed to look like a giant pint of Guinness®. It would hold 14.3 million pints if it were filled.
Arthur Guinness had 21 children.
It takes 10 days to brew a pint of Guinness.
The Guinness Book of Records was created in 1954 by the Managing Director of Guinness to settle arguments in pubs.
James Joyce once called Guinness the ‘wine of Ireland’.
The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000 year lease on the property, at a perpetual rate of 45 Irish pounds per year.
 
History of Pool

The history of pool is long and rich. Kings, peasants, presidents, hustlers and mental patients all have played the game.

Pool had its primitive beginning back in the 15th century, when it started as a game similar to croquet. It was played outside on shortly cut grass with common sticks and balls.

As the game evolved, it was moved into the warmer confines of the great indoors. A pool "table" made of wood was developed. The table was topped with a piece of green cloth to simulate playing outside.

The first games of billiards were played with four balls and a cue ball. Probably the oldest game in billiards is One-Ball. The first years of One-Ball date back to the 1700s. A complete rule book for a British form appeared in 1775.

Many years later, 8-ball became the most popular American form of pool. This game is fairly new and was develop in the early 1900s. 8-Ball's brother, 9-ball, showed up during the 1920s.

 

 
Fun Facts about Pool
Pool is one of the safest sports in the world, unless you happen to poke your opponents in the eye with the cue stick.

The first coin-operated pool or billiard table was designed and constructed in 1903.
 The cost of a game: one cent.

In the early 15th century, pool was a game that was actually played outside. It was similar to croquet that we play in these modern times.
Pool tables originally had vertical walls on which to bounce the balls. They resembled riverbanks, and many people referred to them as "banks". One day someone figured out that he could purposefully aim the balls off of the bank and pocket the shot. This discovery of the shot gave birth to what now is known as the bank shot.
There were few, if any, women pool players in the early 1900s. One day, a woman came along named Frances Anderson. Frances ran tables and hustled players for $5,000 in some games, and went undefeated for over 25 years. One day Frances came forward and scheduled a widely publicized announcement that shocked the world. Frances was actually from Kansas, and his birth name was Orie. Frances Anderson was actually Orie Anderson, a man.

 
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