Really TRUE odd factoids

[Chris S]

In 1917 the Austin Motor Company erected 200 wooden prefabs in Northfield, Birmingham, to accommodate its workers. They're still there and still inhabited.

 

[Beebo]

Fernando Alonso has raced in more than one third of all the F1 Grand Prix that there have ever been.

It is because there are so many races per year now.

 

[matticus]

Fernando Alonso has raced in more than one third of all the F1 Grand Prix that there have ever been.

It is because there are so many races per year now.

Oh wow. Good stat!

(Its also partly because they're much safer now: 50 years earlier, his family would have made him retire as soon as they could afford it!)