Transportation Did you Know (2)
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At age 98, Dimitrion Yordanidis of Greece could run a 26-mile marathon (7 hours, 33 minutes) |
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| A police officer stopped a car in Jackson, Mississippi because the driver was weaving drastically. The driver was blind and was being guided by a passenger who was drunk. |
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| A generally overlooked mode of transportation is motorized pogo sticks. One factory in Los Angeles made some that can get 30,000 hops per gallon with their little two stroke engines. This would seem to be very economical commuting. Considering that an experienced sticker could move forward about three feet per hop, these sticks would deliver only about 17 miles per gallon. |
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| Here's another stupid record: A woman in England had to take her drivers' test 41 times before she was awarded a license to drive. It sounds to me like the only time she got to practice was when she was taking her test. That's one way to get driving lessons without paying for them. I'd say the examiner got taken for a ride. |
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| In the late 1800's drivers (of teams of horses) drove as much as 84 hours a week. |
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| The average person walks about 500 miles a year, or over 35,000 miles in a lifetime. Much of this mileage is just padding back and forth across your house or on the job, from your coffee break to your desk, to your coffee break, etc. |
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| There are about 85 million bicyclists in America (1992) |
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| The world's longest bridge is in Louisiana. It is almost 24 miles long. |
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| In 1965, flying Gemini 4 in an orbit 90 miles above the earth, astronaut James McDivitt sighted a UFO. He said it looked like a cylinder with arms sticking out and appeared to be 30 to 50 miles away. Thinking it was probably just a man-made weather observation satellite, he took pictures anyway. As it turns out, the closest satellite was more than 1200 miles away. Unfortunately, his camera was not well equipped for photographing a relatively small object over 30 miles away, and so the pictures came out too fuzzy to identify anything certain. |
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| John Glenn was surprised to find a cloud of fine sparkly things following him around in orbit until mission control explained that they were droplets of the urine he had earlier expelled from the craft. |
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