The first billiard room in history was build in England in 1765; one pocket was the billiard game that was played on it.
The billiard game begun to be known as "pool game" by the 19th century, when horseracing bettors used to pass the time between one race to the other by playing billiards. The horseracing betting were taking place in poolrooms.
The origin of the term "scratch", which describes the pocketing of the cue ball, is in the early history of pool when the score was written on a chalkboard and when a player had pocketed the cue ball he was penalized with a scratch off a point of his score, literally.
The composition of the cloth of the billiard table has not changed since the early days of billiards in the 16th century.
The biggest billiard room in history was The Recreation, which was located in Detroit during the 1920s. The 7-story billiard room featured 103 pool tables.

The first world championship in sports history was in billiards!
Cue sports is not only the safest type of sports comparing to any other sports, but its champions hold the highest average age of any sport, which is 35.6 years.
As the technical advisor of the classic billiard movie The Hustler, Willie Mosconi aka Mr. Pocket Billiards taught Paul Newman, who have never played pool in his life, how to play pool and to behave like a pool hustler.
The legendary pool player Rudolph Wanderone Jr. aka Minnesota Fats claimed that character of Minnesota Fats in the movie the Hustler was inspired by him.
Minnesota Fats also used to claim that he beat Adolph Hitler in a billiard game.
In the 1986 billiard movie, The Color of Money, all the trick shots were performed by Tom Cruise, except one that required him to jump two balls to sink a third ball, which was performed by professional billiards player Mike Sigel.