Random fact of the day thread.

A kangaroo has three vaginas and can support 3 separate pregnancies of different stages at one time!!
Poor kangaroo.....

A lot of golf courses are built on land unsuitable for housing eg quarries, mines. That is apart from the Trump estate incorporated into an area of special interest of course.

Silverlining48...Probably nearer than 15 ft if you're an MP

Yes Ginjeannie I know that... it was built to accommodate bridge over from Kingswear....but that never happened. Dartmouth railway station became a cafe...and a very nice one too!

The worlds population has doubled in the last 50 years

Well, this morning my business opened up for the first time an office outside of Britain, namely in Belgium.

We accomplished that by buying out an existing business in that country and so we have had all week the IT people causing chaos and disturbing everyone in both offices as they integrated sections of the two computer systems into one.

However, on the first day of full operation for the system, at six o'clock this morning when one of our staff made first touch on a linked keyboard the whole system crashed.

So many of us have been sat here all morning twiddling our thumbs while chaos reigns again with system repair people being everywhere.

So, random fact of the day in the opinion of many in this office, all IT guys are f...king useless. ?

Alder wood makes the best charcoal for making gun powder.

PS I am a gran now!

Westward Ho! is the only place name in the UK to end with an exclamation mark!

An awful lot of land belongs to the Church of England - that irritates me too!

One third of UK rural land belongs to the aristocracy.

Sorry to disappoint you Sara65 but we live by the coast and still see rats thanks to visitors who carelessly throw away remains of take-aways or picnics without finding a bin or feed the seagulls.

My birthday is the same as that of Isambard Kingdom Brunel... The day the sun rises and shines directly through Box rail tunnel in (I think!) Wiltshire.

The tortoise Charles Darwin brought back from the Galapagos Islands didn't die until 2006

Dartmouth railway station is the only station in the UK never to have been used!

Sara65
It's known as churnalism and is very prevelant, especially on Slow News Days. Old article but it still applies.
www.theguardian.com/media/2011/feb/23/churnalism-pr-media-trust

Londongranny

Thankyou, that’s good to know

Sara65
I think that applies to cities and sewers. However a bit of googling tells me that was originally a press release from a pest control firm so pinch of salt required.
There was a big scare a few years ago when it was widely reported that tube train seats were full of bedbugs. That was traced back to a press release from a pest control firm and was very far from the truth indeed.
I think they took a tiny sample along the lines that one carriage was found to have a couple of bedbugs (probably from a returning holidaymaker's luggage) and extrapolated wildly from that point, something like the train had one carriage out of six with bedbugs therefore one in six carriages right across the entire tube network was crawling with bedbugs which ain't the same thing and ain't scientific.

@Phoenix I knew that one actually as it is my dh birthday and we always say 'a hearty happy birthday to you'.

If you say so rebellious!
I guess there are a lot of golf courses around, but still find it hard to believe.
Unfortunately, I have heard the rat fact before Sikverlining, but it’s not one I like to dwell on.

And you are still together, Willow500, congratulations. I hope you have many more years together to come.

50 years ago today husband and I started going out together. That's pretty random

I rarely do housework.

A snail breathes through its foot.

Wherever we are we are never more than 15 feet from a rat,