The World's smallest Pub

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The Nutshell in Bury St. Edmund in England claims to be the "smallest pub in the world." it measures just 9,7 square metres. Sam's in Colorado Springs, in the USA, is 10,12 square metres, but that's the one that you'll find in Guinness World Records. Now an even smaller pub, The signal Box Inn, only 5,95 square metres, has opened in Cleethorpes, England, and its owners have contracted Guinness to claim the title. The pub, which was once a railway signal box, has room for only six customers. Can the pub survive? Well, The Nutshell has survived as a popular tourist attraction since 1873, but it can accommodate 15 customers: 104 people crowded into the pub to set a record for charity in 1984. The Nutshell is also home to a dried black cat (it was discovered in one the walls) and the world's smallest dartboard and pool table.

INTELLECTUAL DRINKERS 

The Eagle in Benet Street, in the university town of Cambridge, appear to be just another English Pub: that is until you look up in the main bar. The entire ceiling is covered in hundred of signatures: during the Second World War it was popular with British and Americans airmen who burnt their signatures up on the ceiling with candles and lighters. Yet the pub is most famous as the place where the scientists Francis Crick and James Watson announced their discovery of the "double helix" structure of DNA in 1953.