10 facts about billiards Bashny.Net

1. In 2008, the two Czechs were playing pool at the token table in the cabin, at one point they climbed into the wells of the balls and at the same moment load lock mechanism. Their hands were successfully trapped the table. At first it was fun, but when even the cabin staff were not able to release the players, it's a sad time, especially for the table. Caused by the rescuers were able to extract the victims, only after sawed table.





2. The game similar to billiards is still in the tombs of the Ancient Egyptians.

3. Billiards, by the way, is the first sport in which was held the World Cup. It happened in 1873 and it was.

4. Tom Jefferson constantly violated the law, playing billiards in his mansion in Virginia. In those days, in the state of billiards was banned, and if it would have caught the game, he faces up to two years in prison.

5. Tom Cruise tries to perform all their own stunts, but the trick jump through two balls from clogging the third in the movie "The Color of Money" has made his place Mike Siegel - a professional billiards player.

6. King Pan Kochanku considered the first pool sharper. In his castle he found the mobile pool table, which, while hitting the opponent bent at a slight angle, which was enough to change the trajectory of the ball. Made "black" operation servants moving around the room.

7. In Russia, billiards appeared under Peter the Great, and under Peter the Second billiards has become a science, which in the opinion of the king developed grace.

8. At the beginning of the War of 1812, the main Russian censor suggested calling billiards word "sharokat" and players - "sharokatami." But the idea was not supported, and even ridiculed.

9. Under Stalin, pool was very popular, because loved him chief. And in every homestead, where he was at least a day, installed a pool table.

10. cue professional billiards, as an extension of the hand. Billiard very rarely change their preferences, and the price for a professional cue reaches several tens of thousands of dollars. Although buy a billiard cue for beginners is not easy and not very expensive, but history has preserved the sale cue handmade, made of rare wood for $ 650,000