Quote from: ChrissyRyan on April 06, 2025, 01:11:34 PMThe ancient Romans typically heated the floors of their bathrooms.

They also had self-flushing toilets! Water was diverted from a river or canal and ran under the "outhouse" type of toilet. The running water flushed the sewage continuously.

I would not go fishing downstream from the city. 

Quote from: Lori Dee on April 06, 2025, 02:39:24 PMThey also had self-flushing toilets! Water was diverted from a river or canal and ran under the "outhouse" type of toilet. The running water flushed the sewage continuously.

I would not go fishing downstream from the city. 

Yes, the fishing was likely pretty crappy there.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on April 06, 2025, 03:04:09 PMYes, the fishing was likely pretty crappy there.

I think you mean "crappie". 

Oh, wait. That's a North American fish.

Wind itself has no noise.  When it hits or otherwise interacts with something, such as other air currents, it is that interaction with something is what you hear.

Cellular telephones are not allowed by patrons (fans) at the Masters golf tournament grounds.

Some man tried to take a cup of the famous white sand from a sand strap at Augusta National Golf Course during a Masters tournament.  This supposedly ended up costing him around $20,000 in various costs. 

Australia is wider than the earth's moon, as Australia's width from east to west is almost 2,485 miles, which is wider than the Moon's equatorial diameter of 2,159 miles.

An albatross or a double eagle is scoring three shots under par for a golf hole.
The term albatross is more often used outside of the United States.

Scoring an albatross or double eagle is more rare than hitting a golf hole-in-one.

Sinking the golf ball off your tee shot is called an ace, or a hole-in-one.

A condor is scoring four shots under par for a golf hole.
If you hit the golf ball into the hole off your tee shot for a par five hole, you scored an ace as well as a condor.

There has been only about four or five condors noted to date.
These would likely be possible only on par five hole that has a sharp dogleg and you hit over it to the hole.

A golf dogleg is a sharp bend or turn in the fairway before reaching a hole.

There is a disgusting food museum.  Really.

The Disgusting Food Museum is located in Mälmo, Sweden.


https://disgustingfoodmuseum.com/

Alan Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

Golf has grown from its Scottish roots to become a global sport.

Golf was banned in Scotland three times in the 15th century (1457, 1471, and 1491) because the government believed golf playing  interfered with military training.

There are over 34,000 golf courses worldwide.  The United States is home to about half of them.

Jack Nicklaus has won 18 major golf championships.  Tiger Woods has won 15.

Early golf balls were made of feathers wrapped in leather and they were used until the mid-1800s.

The first dimpled golf ball was patented in 1905 by William Taylor.

Youngest and oldest Masters Golf tournament winner:  Jack Nicklaus won the Masters at age 23 in 1963, then four more times, then again at age 46 in 1986, making him both the youngest (at that time) and oldest winner of the Masters golf tournament.

Tiger Woods became the youngest Masters Golf tournament winner in 1997 at the age of 21 years and 104 days.