(Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.)

A man's ability to fight can be determined with great accuracy just by looking at his face.

Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara tested subjects on how well they were able to asses physical strength and fighting skill based on photos of bodies, faces or both. The results surprised the study's lead researcher Aaron Sell, who concluded "the visual assessment of fighting ability is almost perfectly correlated with the perception of strength, and both closely track actual upper body strength. What is a bit spooky is that upper body strength can even be read on a person's face."

Sell suggests men with noticeably heavy brow ridges and thick jaws may be more likely to posses a strong body built for hand-to-hand combat.

So if you feel yourself getting into a physical confrontation, it sounds like the best thing to do is to jut out your jaw. This should intimidate or at least make your adversary feel the need to pull out a firearm.

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