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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Interesting Facts About Vehicles



When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down.

Interesting Facts About Vehicles


Interesting!No automobile made after 1924 should be designated as antique.

Facts is that If you drive a VW into water, with one person it floats; two people it sinks.

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back.

A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below

Interesting Facts is that !The new 787 Boeing was revealed on July 8th, 07.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Interesting ! Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.

Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

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