On Get Fact'd with Darren Maule here are the Darren Maule today he shares these interesting fats:
The UK has approx. one pub for every 1400 people.
Rhayader, Wales holds the crown for most pubs per capita; in 2008, it had one pub for every 173 residents.
There was a Bronze Age Collapse, where several powerful & advanced Mediterranean civilizations all vanished within 50 years. Historians are unsure why it happened so quickly & simultaneously, but theories include volcanoes, drought, the rise of iron, Sea People invasions, or a combination thereof
In The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the Japanese were defeated so completely when Allied planes sank 12 ships & and killed 3,000+ enemy soldiers, that any hope of a Japanese invasion of Australia was eliminated. 2 weeks later Tokyo announced that all Japanese soldiers would be taught to swim.