Random fact of the day thread.

today is the Feast day of saints Cosmos and Damian

Last Thursday was "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"

Sara65 It's truth bizarre as it appears.

Also what about high rise and high density housing? Small footprint but many residents.

To be fair, that golf course thing came about via serious research but doesn't include gardens, driveways etc, just the actual bricks and mortar footprint. On the other hand the golf course size doesn't include water or unplayable areas either so it's hard to tell.

Also it is Trumps favourite hobby....ugh

Rebellious

I simply don’t believe the golf course fact, but I imagine the other one is true

I wonder what percentage of land in the UK are taken up by race tracks - horses or motor racing?

Random fact:

Wherever you live in the UK, you are no more than 75 miles away from the sea.

I've read or heard recently that quite a few golf courses are finding it hard to attract enough members - reasons being fees are too expensive and in younger families, one partner or the other (more often I suppose the wife) objects to the other spending a quarter of the weekend on the golf course - esp. when both are working.
So maybe the percentages will even out a bit in future, and some of them will be covered with houses instead.

That is hard to believe isn't it?