IT’S DAY 246 OF 2015

PRESIDENT Charles de Gaulle once said of France: ‘How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?’ Britain now produces more than 900 types. THE first recorded cremation in the UK took place 246 years ago, when the body of Honoretta Pratt was burnt at London’s St George’s Burial Ground. Cremations did not become legal until 1884. A GALLON of diesel will carry a tonne of freight 246 miles by rail, or 88 miles by road. OF the 34,000 plus golf clubs worldwide, there are only 246 true links courses — typically those built on coastal dunes. IN the 1988 film classic Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman’s character Raymond Babbitt, an autistic savant, can count 246 fallen toothpicks in a second.